In England, it’s not easy to join a top-40 band and make a good living at playing music. It’s also not easy to become a virtuoso on your instrument and then spend five nights a week for years headlining the Airport Plaza Inn. Adam Woods is plenty glad of that, I suppose. It’s caused him, his band mates, and hordes of other musicians in the UK to endure hardships, test the British welfare system, and pursue something original. Woods, as a drummer of the successful British band The Fixx, has taken a very original approach to drumming and ridden it right up the charts. Woods strikes a pose sort of like a young Benny Hill as The Fixx launches into “Sunshine In The Shade” off their latest LP, Phantoms. He grins through his maze of acoustic drums, Simmons pads, Pearl Syncussion shells, crash cymbals, woodblocks, cowbells, and tambourines at vocalist […]

July 1985 Issue