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Jerry Carrigan: In On The Ground Floor
Editors Note: Modern Drummer was saddened to learn of the passing of famed Nashville studio drummer Jerry Carrigan earlier this month, at the age of seventy-five. Below is an interview we did with him that appeared in our September 1986 issue. As a lover of music and the process by which records are […]
Ben Riley – Making History
FAME? Ben Riley doesn’t ever recall having had the feeling of being “famous.” It’s a word he avoids. Although he says a friend once called him “jazz’s best-kept secret,” the jazz drummers’ community holds his authoritative playing in the highest respect. It is true, however, that Ben never received his fair share of media […]
Bun E. Carlos — Mind Over Metal
Many drummers have a roadie on standby during concerts, in case of a head breaking, cymbal cracking, or bass pedal busting. Bun E. Carlos, the deceptively powerful drummer of Cheap Trick, has his man on alert just in case the perpetual cigarette dangling from his lips should be extinguished, or should he slap it across […]
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