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Manu Katch A Softer, Gentler Dynamic It's been at least fifteen years since Manfred Eicher, founder of the German record label
ECM, pulled his sedan over to the shoulder of the Autobahn, smitten by the drumming coming from the radio.
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Jeff Kathan All Right Now With Paul Rodgers Six-foot-four powerhouse drummer Jeff Kathan and his two bandmates
carefully step into position on the dark stage.
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Kelly Keagy Alive...And Well Kelly Keagy is a busy man these days. Known for his powerful drumming with Night Ranger (“Sister Christian” was named one of the “Top Drum Tracks of the 1980s” in a recent Modern Drummer article), Keagy has a new solo album called I’m Alive, showcasing his drumming, singing, and songwriting.
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Johnny Kelly Type O Negative Comes Down "I don't think Type O Negative is the kind of band that justly
deserves to be categorized," says drummer Johnny Kelly.
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Des Kensel Stripped Down And
Raw High On Fire drummer Des Kensel remembers the moment he and his bandmates first hooked up with radical
engineer Steve Albini. "He asked us if there were any weird ideas or experimental things we wanted to work with. We told him,
'Not really. We just want it to be raw and have it sound like us.'"
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Stacy Kerber Leaving Neil At Home
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Barry Kerch Dreaded Locked And Loaded In 2001, Barry Kerch’s audition for Shinedown consisted of going into the studio, laying down tracks, and seeing what stuck. Within the tryout he performed the band’s eventual single, “45.”
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Billy Kilson Dedication To The Art At a 1999 Birdland performance with The Dave Holland Quintet, Billy Kilson led
band and audience in a rousing chorus of drum worship. Holland, one of jazz's most celebrated bassists and composers, has
played with all the innovators, from Tony and Elvin to Jack DeJohnette and Billy Higgins. So you can bet he knows a great drummer
when he hears one.
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Billy Kilson Playing With Fire At a recent concert led by pianist Kirk Lightsey at New York’s Jazz Standard, Billy Kilson played swinging standards and hushed ballads with a fire usually reserved for Cuban fusion or extreme jazz-rock.
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Darren King Freedom To Fail You’d never know it by listening to Mute Math’s terrific debut album, but drummer Darren King got his act together not by playing his best, but by playing his worst.
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Dave King Prog! You Bet! Great musicians, regardless of style, should electrify and challenge. The Bad Plus’s Dave King achieves both goals on the trio’s fourth album, PROG.
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Ted Kirkpatrick Tourniquet Fueled By A Higher Power "We call ourselves 'Christians who play music,'"
says drummer Ted Kirkpatrick, mastermind behind the highly successful Christian metal band Tourniquet.
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Kit Of The Month The Collage Drumkit Thomas Given’s Collage Kit appeared in the Kit Of The Month department of the August ’07 MD. Here’s his full report on the creation of this unusual kit, along with a bevy of photos illustrating the project.
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Chris Knapp Persistence Although The Ataris' Chris "Kid" Knapp is a relatively young twenty-something, barely scoring his
first major-label release, his musical career already has plenty of age and wisdom to show for itself.
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Skeebo Knight Dealing With Pain Skeebo Knight loves drumming. Yet the pain he must endure simply to sit behind
his kit and lay down a groove is staggering. Knight suffers from Scleroderma, which he describes as a connective tissue disorder
that causes a variety of painful symptoms including muscle rigidity, skeletal stiffness, fatigue, muscle and joint inflammation, and
severe muscle spasms.
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Kris Kohls Serious Road Chop A musical education can be had from a variety of sources. You could rent how-to
instructional videos for just about every style and genre you're trying to master. You could sit for hours with headphones and
over-analyze every fill and lick from your favorite drummer's performances. You could pony up the bucks and sign up for
private lessons. Or you could attempt to do what Kris Kohls from Adema has done--hit the road for thirteen months straight with
some of hard rock's finest.
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Kris Kohls The Planets Are Aligned Having parted ways with lead singer Marky Chavez and its former record label in the
course of a year, heavy metal band Adema has boldly released its third CD, Planets. Drummer Kris Kohls enthusiastically believes
this record is the band's best one yet.
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Glenn Kotche Wilco's Sonic Maestro Climb around the back of Glenn Kotche's drumset in Wilco's
rehearsal loft/recording studio on the northwest side of Chicago, and what you'll see is part hardware store and part orchestra
percussion pit.
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Glenn Kotche Painting The Sky Blue Sky This past winter, the duality of rock drummer / experimental percussionist Glenn Kotche’s eclectic career reached an all-time high as he juggled writing/recording sessions for Wilco’s latest release, Sky Blue Sky, and composing “Anomaly,” a seven-movement commission for world-renowned string ensemble The Kronos Quartet.
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James Kottak Still The New Guy After All These Years Twelve years into James Kottak’s tenure with The Scorpions—a gig that’s taken him everywhere from Siberia to Brazil—the Kentucky-bred, LA-based drummer finally feels like he’s made an album with the legendary band he can live with.
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Joey Kramer Loop This Way Aerosmith's Joey Kramer has a new endeavor. It's called Aerosmith's
Joey Kramer'drum Loops And Samples, which is fairly self-explanatory, except that Kramer says there are some special
features.
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Kenny Kramme Blues Deluxe Some drummers playing in power trios instinctively think in terms of filling up space,
rather than creating it. Not so with the versatile Kenny Kramme, who gives The Joe Bonamassa Band a solid foundation.
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Eric Kretz Reunited And It Feels So Good Since Stone Temple Pilots disbanded five years ago, Scott Weiland (Velvet Revolver), and the DeLeo brothers Robert and Dean (Army Of Anyone, among other projects) have made plenty of noise on their own.
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Dave Krusen Pearl
Jam, Candlebox, and Unified Theory Those of you who closely read album credits may have
noticed that it wasn't Dave Abbruzzese playing drums on Pearl Jam's breakthrough album, Ten.
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Andy Kubiszewski A Natural Direction Andy Kubiszewski knows the best-formulated plans often fall by the wayside
when opportunity comes knocking. "Originally when I got into playing the drums, my goal was to get a job in an orchestra," says
the drummer for Chicago's post-industrial hard rockers Stabbing Westward.
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