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Rock Doc Drummers

Maybe there’s something in the water. Or the air. Or perhaps it’s simply the streaming services deluging us with content while everyone is looking for anything to take their minds off of the global pandemic. But, wow, a ton of great music documentaries have exploded onto screens large and small the past couple of years. To celebrate, we picked ten tuneful non-fiction films and reached into the Modern Drummer archives to spotlight the drummers driving the songs that made those docs rock. Roc Doc: Get Back, 2021The Drummer: Ringo StarrTenure with the Beatles: 1962—1970 “What helped me a lot was that I had three frustrated drummers around in the Beatles,” Starr told MD in the December 1981/January 1982 issue. “John could play, and Paul could play, and George could play, but they only had one sort of groove, whereas I have two or three. John and I used to have, […]
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September 2021 Issue

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