Excerpted from the August 1985 issue Let me say first of all that I don’t do interviews, ever. I did them when the band started, and then 1 stopped because I didn’t enjoy them. I’ve seen issues of Modern Drummer. I like what the magazine does, so I decided to do this. But I’m not a talker. I hope you can make sense of what I say. I saw a piece on Russ Kunkel about how musical he is and all that. I don’t deserve that kind of praise in a technical sense. I don’t consider myself great by any means. I wouldn’t want the magazine to make me something I’m not. But what I do feel is that, if I’m going to do an interview, I want people to know that you don’t have to be a technical drummer. You can follow your own rules and be in a […]

December 2021 Issue