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Stretch Orchestra: A Juno Award contender, a real winning hybrid musical statement.
Installing split-end rivets in a cymbal, imbibing Scotch. Drummer health issues!
The Modern Drum Shop: NYC, retailer and source of custom drumsets
CD Review: Mat Marucci & Doug Webb Trio with Rob Lemas: Why Not? (Cadence)
Drummers deserving wider recognition
Part II >Dave Mattacks & Jimmy Page> The DM Death Wish II Backbeat> the Perfect Rimshot!
The key to a great drum groove is not speed, not chops, not metronomic time. It’s maintaining a consistent upbeat!
Rogers Swiv-o-matic: Among the top 10 bass drum pedals, current or past. Still modern as the day it was new.
How do you play drums…in free jazz/improvisational music? I lasted 2 sets at a jazz club. Was I grooving or was I shtick-ing?
Dave Mattacks, the master session drummer, reveals how he worked a duo with Jimmy Page and cut the movie soundtrack Death Wish II (Charles Bronson) in 1981, not quite a year following the death of Zeppelin’s drummer John Bonham.
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