Tag Archives: Scott K Fish

Drummers Played a Major Part Creating Motown Music

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This is part of a phone interview on May 12, 1982 with Motown’s Brian Holland. It’s important readers understand how little information existed at this time on Motown’s drummers. Their identities were not well-known. Once the principal drummers … Continue reading →

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Dave Weckl – Learning Different Styles as a Kid (1983)

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: This excerpt is from my August 5, 1983 interview with Dave Weckl. Dave talks about learning different styles of drumming, starting when he was a kid, through St. Louis drum teachers, and by playing along with records. His … Continue reading →

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Shelly Manne: A Bluish Bag

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Going through my old cassettes, looking for keeper material and discarding the rest, I found a 90-minute tape of one of my Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon radio programs on WMHB at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. That … Continue reading →

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Preserving Maine’s Country Music Legacy

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Scott K Fish

It’s important to preserve Maine’s country music legacy Scott K. Fish, Special to the Piscataquis Observer • April 14, 2018 One afternoon in 1973, legendary country musician Johnny Cash was writing to his 18-year-old daughter, Roseanne, at a table in … Continue reading →

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Sandy Nelson: I Basically Had One Drumset

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Let There Be Drums, Drums Are My Beat, Birth of the Beat — Sandy Nelson had a string of drum solo hit records I loved. So did lots of other drummers and pop music fans. I was glad … Continue reading →

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