Catching Up With… Mickey Curry It’s thirty years and counting, tracking and touring with hitmaker Bryan Adams. by Bob Girouard By his own admission, Mickey Curry’s career has been close to idyllic. The New Haven native’s résumé is, to say the least, sturdy: learning the ropes in the ’70s with the Scratch Band, featuring future SNL musical director G.E. Smith on guitar; backing Daryl Hall and John Oates during the duo’s early-’80s megahits period; and then expanding his recording work with Bryan Adams into a role as full-time drummer for the hugely popular Canadian rocker. These days Curry is supporting Adams on a tour celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the hit album Reckless. “Beginning the day Bryan and I met,” Curry tells Modern Drummer, “we were thinking alike as to how he wanted his records to sound, particularly the drums. From the first day of rehearsals his songs were the […]

August 2015 Issue