Bill Stevenson

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Bill Stevenson, Part 2: Road-Warrior Drumkits and the Influence of Coltrane and Afro-Cuban

Bill Stevenson with Descendents. From left: bassist Karl Alvarez, Stevenson, singer Milo Aukerman, and guitarist Stephen Egerton by David Jarnstrom In Part 1 of our new interview with the iconic drummer Bill Stevenson, we discussed the latest Descendents album, the…

Modern Drummer
Jan 20, 2017

Bill Stevenson, Part 1: the Reemergence of Descendents

Bill Stevenson with Descendents. From left: bassist Karl Alvarez, Stevenson, singer Milo Aukerman, and guitarist Stephen Egerton by David Jarnstrom To borrow from the great Walt Whitman: Bill Stevenson is large. He contains multitudes. Over the last four decades, the…

Modern Drummer
Jan 13, 2017

Influences: Bill Stevenson

  by Stephen Bidwell   Drummer Bill Stevenson is among the most influential musicians associated with West Coast punk rock, on any instrument. After making his name with seminal hard-core band Black Flag in the ’80s, Stevenson proceeded to set…

Modern Drummer
Sep 29, 2014
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