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Tag Archives: History of Rock Drumming
Fred Below: They Didn’t Teach Blues Music in School
SKF NOTE: This is another in my series of Modern Drummer backgrounder interviews. I wrote on the transcript that I edited this interview on June 11, 1981 for use in the Blues Drummers segment of my History of Rock Drumming. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chess, David Myers, Fred Below, History of Rock Drumming, Little Walter, Louis Myers, Modern Drummer, The Aces
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Earl Palmer: I Wasn’t Quite Sure What I Wanted to Do with My Life
SKF NOTE: I had this phone conversation with Earl Palmer on February 28, 1981. This is another of my Modern Drummer History of Rock Drumming five-part series backgrounder interviews. I am so grateful to be posting these interviews for the … Continue reading
Hal Blaine: You Gotta Watch, Learn, Listen
SKF NOTE: Hal Blaine was a great friend to Modern Drummer magazine while I was on staff. It would not surprise me to know Hal is still a great friend to MD. In the early 1980’s, when I was writing The History … Continue reading
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Tagged Drummer, Earl Palmer, Hal Blaine, History of Rock Drumming, Jesse Sailes, Modern Drummer, Roy C. Knapp, Scott K Fish, Sharkey Hall
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Michael Carvin: Motown is the Bebop of Rock
SKF NOTE: I hate sounding like a broken record (no pun intended), but for the sake of readers visiting Life Beyond the Cymbals for the first time: I conducted a series of backgrounder interviews in the early 1980s for a … Continue reading
Al Duncan: Big Ears and a Good Memory
SKF NOTE: This backgrounder phone interview with drummer Al Duncan is among several I did for a multi-part Modern Drummer feature series, The History of Rock Drumming. The entire interview is published here for the first time. And you can … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Duncan, Chess, Drummer, History of Rock Drumming, Modern Drummer, Motown, Scott K Fish, Vee-Jay, Willie Dixon
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