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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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