Pop-Culture Triumphs, 1977-2021 Modern Drummer has reported on a colossal number of drummers in its 45-year history, but pop-culture doesn’t revolve solely around drums and drumming. (Drats!) Creativity does not exist in a vacuum. Other events tend to inspire, inform, and drive artistic thought. While it would be one tough-as-all-hell pub debate to propose that Super Bowl or World Series championships motivate drum chops and/or songwriting explorations, the state of the world around us can have an impact on how musicians approach their artform. Here’s a look at some of the top happenings for each year that Modern Drummer has been publishing content for the world’s drum community. You might not care that the San Francisco 49ers won their first Super Bowl in 1982, but it may interest you to discover that Steve Gadd owned the Best All-Around category in the MD Readers Poll for seven straight years, and became […]