Gearing Up
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Video Tour! Will Calhoun's Living Colour Kit
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the November 2016 issue, which is available here. Gearing Up On Stage And Up Close Will Calhoun's Living Colour Kit Interview, photos and video by Miguel Monroy We recently…
Video Tour! Gearing Up with Gary Clark Jr.'s Johnny Radelat
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the December 2015 issue, which is available here. Gearing Up One Stage And Up Close Johnny Radelat As much as we love checking out giant kits, it’s nice to…
Video Tour! Gearing Up with Wilco's Glenn Kotche
This excerpt is taken from the complete article that appears in the November 2015 issue, which is available here. Gearing Up On Stage and Up Close Glenn Kotche by Miguel Monroy Glenn Kotche has one of the most distinctive setups…
Web Exclusive Interview With Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake
Web Exclusive! Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake by Dave Previ At the start of their North American tour, most of the members of Meshuggah had caught the same cold. We met up with drummer Tomas Haake before the band’s NYC show at…
Brian Frasier-Moore Switches to Pearl Drums
Editors note: The March 2013 issue of Modern Drummer features a Gearing Up article on Brian Frasier-Moore about the DrumCraft setup he used with Madonna during her 2012 tour. After that issue went to press, Frasier-Moore switched to Pearl drums.…
Chris Tsagakis: Gearing Up
(April 2011 Issue) More with RX Bandits’ remarkable sticksman—profiled in April’s Gearing Up column—who smoothly covers the broad ground between So-Cal ska and blazing prog rock. by Corrado Rizzi It’s safe to say that you will never see RX Bandits…
Manu Katché : Gearing Up: Web Exclusive
(from the December 2010 issue of Modern Drummer magazine) by Dave Previ Longtime pop drumming star Manu Katché made a stop in North America this past summer for a few Canadian dates and a single U.S. appearance at the Highline…
Gearing Up With Trey Gray
(November 2010) Brooks And Dunn‘s Trey Gray Discusses His Set-Up. Video by Sayre Berman.
Vinnie Paul: Gearing Up
Exclusive ModernDrummer.com Interview by Dave Previ Hellyeah has been out on the road in support of its new record Stampede, which was released on July 13. This Texas-based band—featuring metal icon Vinnie Paul on drums—kicked off its tour in…