An Editor’s Overview
The 2020 Modern Drummer Readers Poll: Something New
This year we’ve made some adjustments to our annual Readers Poll, which goes live here at moderndrummer.com on December 1. So if you’ve voted in the past, you’ll notice that things look a little different.
Eric Singer of Kiss
With Kiss, his primary function is, and has always been, to support the band and to put on the best show possible.
Tower of Power’s David Garibaldi
Garibaldi’s classic body-moving tracks expanded the drumset vocabulary, inspiring generations of stick wielders.
The Aristocrats’ Marco Minnemann
He makes the impossible seem effortless—and enchants with the alchemy of instrumental interaction.
Skillet’s Jen Ledger
Her drumming journey has taken her from Coventry, England, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to touring the world with Christian-rock group Skillet.
Gunnar Olsen
“I get to Bruce’s place, and they play me a song once or twice—I’m not quite sure what song it was. It’s very surreal. I’m hearing Bruce’s voice in the headphones.”
Tower of Power’s David Garibaldi: The Beat Builder
Building upon the James Brown legacy, he expanded the vocabulary of beat-displacement groove patterns and applied them in a “linear” concept.
The 2019 Chicago Drum Show
The Show, now in its twenty-ninth year, is one of the largest and longest-running drum exhibitions in the world.
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