An Editor’s Overview
Reflections of My Life
Hi, and welcome to 1970! We editors really enjoy doing these theme issues, and we hope you take as much pleasure from them.
Bill Ward: Metal Drumming Godfather
“Oh no, I could never have imagined it,” says Bill Ward with a long...
1970: The Year in Drumming
As our previous special issues focusing on the years 1967 and 1969...
Fusion Star Lenny White
The four-time Grammy Award winner is such a versatile and influential
Studio and Touring Great Jim Gordon
In 1970, Jim Gordon drummed on at least a dozen hit albums...
West Coast Pop Journeyman Johny Barbata
In the 1970s, Johny Barbata had a very hot hand.
Angie Boylan
Angie Boylan’s Brooklyn, New York–based band, Freezing Cold, was on the...
Warren Storm
A new biography pays long-overdue attention to a legendary drummer
The Pretenders’ Martin Chambers
The band’s founding drummer finds himself back on tape for the first
John Niekrasz of Methods Body
Portland, Oregon, drummer and poet John Niekrasz
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