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Matt Abts
Bass Resurrection (July 2005 Issue)
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?
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Daniel Adair
Truth Or Dair (February 2009 Issue)
Nickelback owns rock radio. Over the past five years the band has sold more than twenty-six million records while garnering awards and top-ten singles faster then you can say “Oh Canada.”
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Chris Adler
More Than Meets The Eye (October 2006 Issue)
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.
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AL3
Powerman 5000's Drummer In Revolt (December 2000 Issue)
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
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Tommy Aldridge
Double Bass Lives On (July 2005 Issue)
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).
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Tommy Alesi
Cutting A Cajun Groove (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Tim Alexander
Prime Mover (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Tim Alexander
Back To Primus (September 2005 Issue)
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.
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Don Alias
His Heartbeat Tour
Reaches The UK (June 2000 Issue)
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.
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Carl Allen
Embracing The Journey (November 2007 Issue)
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.
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Dave Allen
Everywhere With Michelle Branch (July 2005 Issue)
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."
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Paul Allen
Future Drumming Idol (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Rick Allen
Still Feeling The Power (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Rick Allen
The Power Of Rhythm (August 2006 Issue)
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.
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Tony Allen
Afrobeat King (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Tony Allen
Afrobeat Overdrive (November 2007 Issue)
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.
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Robby Ameen
Latin Great Makes History With "El Negro" (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Scott Amendola
Leading Effort (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Vinnie Amico
moe.'s Rhythm Method (July 2005 Issue)
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."
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Seven Antonopoulos
Drum Manifesto (August 2007 Issue)
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.”
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Louie Appel
Havin' A Party With The Jukes (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Carmine Appice
Power Drumming Forever! (April 2007 Issue)
With several projects coming to fruition, Carmine Appice seems poised to reclaim his throne as one of the baddest heavy rock drummers ever.
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Tom Ardolino
The Magical Groove of NRBQ's Tom Ardolino (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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Steve Asheim
Deicide's Metal Maven (March 2007 Issue)
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.
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Scott Asheton
Back To The Fun House (April 2007 Issue)
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.
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Martin Atkins
Dangerous
Listening (July 2005 Issue)
"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.
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Martina Axen
Drain STH's Power Play (July 2005 Issue)
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.
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