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Matt Abts Bass Resurrection Jack Bruce, Larry Graham, John Entwistle, Chris Squire, Bootsy Collins, Les Claypool, Phil Lesh- is there a drummer among us who hasn't fantasized about playing with these and other giants of the bass guitar? More.... |
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Chris Adler More Than Meets The Eye Last year, Modern Drummer Festival attendees learned what legions of devoted heavy metal fans have known for years: There’s something special about Lamb Of God’s drummer, Chris Adler. More.... |
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AL3 Powerman 5000's Drummer In Revolt Al 3 has gone from playing in cover and original bands in upstate New York, to blues bands in Boston, to Powerman 5000. Although they've sold close to two million copies of Tonight The Stars Revolt! and have shared the stage with Metallica, Pantera, and t More.... |
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Tommy Aldridge Double Bass Lives On Fifty-year-old drum great Tommy Aldridge first came to prominence with '70s Southern-rock hooligans Black Oak Arkansas, although you wouldn't know that by visiting his current Web site (www.tommyaldridge.com). More.... |
| Tommy Alesi Cutting A Cajun Groove When Tommy Alesi gets chugging hand-to-hand on the snare in a train beat, the band cooks and people kick away their chairs. Alesi's band is Beausoleil, considered one of the best Cajun groups in the world. More.... |
| Tim Alexander Prime Mover When Tim Alexander left Primus in 1996, he was ready to move from the wacky, experimental frenzy of rhythms that had made the band a household name to a more structured rock format. He started his band Laundry to be able to do just that. Little did Alexander realize that trying to get a rock band off the ground in today's "do it yourself" music business is not quite as easy as sailing the seas of cheese. More.... |
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Tim Alexander Back To Primus After leaving Primus in 1996, Tim (don't call him "Herb") Alexander has reunited with bassist Les Claypool and guitarist Larry LaLonde to resurrect one of the most popular and cutting-edge rock acts of the '90s. More.... |
| Don Alias His Heartbeat Tour Reaches The UK Though it took more than five years to become a reality, percussionist/drummer Don Alias's recent seven-city Heartbeat tour of the United Kingdom proved to be well worth the wait. More.... |
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Carl Allen Embracing The Journey Soon after moving to the New York area in the early ’80s, Carl Allen landed a dream gig with post bop trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. That gig established the then nineteen-year-old drummer as a leading light among a select group of eager young musicians who were looking to breath new life into the waning art of hard-swinging acoustic jazz. More.... |
| Dave Allen Everywhere With Michelle Branch Flip around MTV or VH1 and you're likely to catch Dave Allen in one of Michelle Branch's hit videos. Dave is part of Michelle's touring band, and they're currently on a world tour. "We've been so busy promoting The Spirit Room," Dave enthuses. "It's been great. And I just heard that the record is number-1 in Australia!" That's music to Dave's ears, because that's his home country. "I left Australia seven years ago and moved to New York City," he says. "But the climate was too much of an adjustment, so I moved to LA." More.... |
| Paul Allen Future Drumming Idol Paul Allen is very busy these days. The drummer began last year touring with first-season American Idol runner-up Justin Guarini and winner Kelly Clarkson, who went on to become one of the biggest stars of the year. More.... |
| Rick Allen Still Feeling The Power Rick Allen has been playing drums all his life, and nothing was going to stop him from doing what he loves to do. Nothing. By now we all know the story of Rick's terrible car accident on December 31, 1984, which resulted in the drummer losing his left arm when he was twenty-one. One could only imagine the horror. More.... |
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Rick Allen The Power Of Rhythm Rick Allen says the great thing about Def Leppard’s new album, Yeah!, is that the band didn’t have to spend time writing new material. Instead, they decided to record a selection of ’70s cover songs. More.... |
| Tony Allen Afrobeat King Providing the rhythms for African music icon Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has had a double-edged effect on Nigerian drummer Tony Allen's reputation. His work is ubiquitous, but his name recognition is negligible. Allen played with Fela's Afrika 70 orchestra for fifteen years, but Fela is now celebrated as the sole inventor of Afrobeat. Afrobeat is a fusion of traditional West African percussion with late '60s/early '70s soul and funk. Allen's rhythmic legacy is preserved on more than three dozen Fela records, including landmark classics Shakara, Gentleman, Confusion, Zombie, and Roforofo Fight. More.... |
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Tony Allen Afrobeat Overdrive As the most important drummer in African music, Tony Allen provided the Afrobeat pulse for Fela Kuti’s Africa ’70s band and recorded a clutch of solo albums. Currently Allen works for UK supergroup The Good, The Bad, And The Queen, which features Blur’s Damon Albarn and The Clash’s Paul Simonen. More.... |
| Robby Ameen Latin Great Makes History With "El Negro" The first thing you notice when entering Robby Ameen's Manhattan apartment is the rich aroma of Cuban cigars, stroking your nose hairs like a dark breeze from an illicit island. Ameen's walls are covered with cigar-box covers from Habana's finest: Cohiba, Montecristo, and Bolivar. More.... |
| Scott Amendola Leading Effort Scott Amendola has never been satisfied to just be an amazing drummer. The thirty-one-year-old innovator has spent his career pushing music in new directions, never more so than with the eponymously named band he leads. More.... |
| Vinnie Amico moe.'s Rhythm Method America's favorite hippie jam band, moe., has been busy touring - and procreating. Explains drummer Vinnie Amico, "I went on my first tour in the spring of '97, then went out with the Further Festival. Then I had a baby. Then another guy in the band had a baby in the summer of '98, and then another guy in the fall of '98. We'd love to be on the road and play, but being away from the family is hard." if I stay that tight for the whole hour, I'll be dead." Explains Vinnie, "We're not your basic hippie jam band. We play harder: a lot less like The Grateful Dead, a lot more like The Ramones." More.... |
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Seven Antonopoulos Drum Manifesto The programming-heavy hard rock of L.A.’s Opiate For The Masses often draws aural comparisons to industrial stalwarts like KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails. But drummer Seven Antonopoulos resists pigeonholing his band as “industrial metal.” More.... |
| Louie Appel Havin' A Party With The Jukes Feel-good party music is what Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes have always been about. And for the past two years, Louie Appel has been a very big part of bringing that feel-good groove to audiences around the world. More.... |
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Carmine Appice Power Drumming Forever! With several projects coming to fruition, Carmine Appice seems poised to reclaim his throne as one of the baddest heavy rock drummers ever. More.... |
| Tom Ardolino The Magical Groove of NRBQ's Tom Ardolino Check the CD collections of Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Bonnie Raitt, or Paul McCartney, and chances are you'll find copies of Tiddlywinks, Grooves In Orbit, and Peek-A-Boo by veteran popsters NRBQ. That kind of admiration would be understandable if the Q was itself a household name. More.... |
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Steve Asheim Deicide's Metal Maven Death metal scene-leaders Deicide have been playing their intense music for seventeen years, first attracting major exposure with their self-titled debut album in 1990. More.... |
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Scott Asheton Back To The Fun House When punk rock progenitors The Stooges reformed for some shows in 2003, big names like Rick Rubin and Jack White expressed interest in helping the band produce a new record in the tradition of their classic albums Fun House and Raw Power. More.... |
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Martin Atkins Dangerous Listening "I have an ability to bring people together, and that gives me the opportunity to do something very dangerous." So says drummer Martin Atkins about Pigface. More.... |
| Martina Axen Drain STH's Power Play Martina Ax'n of Drain STH loves a big drum sound. To get that sound she plays a big kit - 26" bass drum, 14" mounted tom, and 18" floor tom. And she plays hard. "Last time we played Phoenix, they practically had to carry me off the stage," she says. More.... |
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