#Motown the Musical Tour 2015
I’m joining the Motown tour in Los Angeles for just this week. It should be fun for a number of reasons.. 1) I loved subbing for Buddy Williams in the Broadway production 2) I get to play with one of my favorite bass players and guitarist and 3) I get to be in warm weather,…
Read moreDennis Chambers, Mike Stern, Lincoln Goines & Bob Berg – Loose Ends 1990
THIS is what you call a “pocket” – the steadiness of the drummer. The solid playing of a drummer in a band setting where all else can musically blossom…I guess that might be a way to describe it. Ahhh! Dennis Chambers was, and still is an amazing pocket drummer – as well as a virtuoso. He…
Read more“Chops Sawyer” by RicKy Syers
New study claims that drummers are more intelligent than everyone
According to a collection of studies, drummers are super smart, due to a variety of factors relating to being in the rhythm section. The news comes courtesy of Polymic, who have compiled a series of reports from Oxford and Harvard universities to name a few. What they found was that that dude at the back…
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