Earl Palmer: A Retrospective From Drummer Talk
April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Dave Kropf, the main dude over at Drummer Talk, has penned a good four-part retrospective on Earl Palmer, the drummer you’ve heard thousands of times on hits by Little Richard, Fats Domino, and B. B. King. For your reading convenience, here are the links to each post:
- Earl Palmer - From Blues to Rock & Roll and Beyond (Part I)
- Earl Palmer - From Blues to Rock & Roll and Beyond (Part II)
- Earl Palmer - From Blues to Rock & Roll and Beyond (Part III)
- Earl Palmer - From Blues to Rock & Roll and Beyond (Part IV)
Samantha Maloney Tackles TV
April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Maloney played drums for Motley Crue, Hole, Peaches, and Eagles of Death Metal, but it’s hard to keep a hot chick talented woman hidden behind a kit. So now she’s stepping out as host for ManiaTV’s All Access, a new show that “takes the viewer deep inside the world of major artists and showcases the best in new music.” A couple episodes are available on demand here.
Ronn Dunnett’s Musikmesse Pictorial
April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Sit down, shut up, and click on this link. It’ll be the best thing you visit on the Web all day, a superb collection of photos taken by master drum maker Ronn Dunnett at Musikmesse 2008. He’s posted over 1,000 images (everything from great gear shots to even greater drummer pics), so turn off your cell phone and your IM before you begin voyeuring: such seriously hot drum porn deserves your undivided attention. Especially if it involves Jojo.
[via Drummerworld]
Eat Drums, Eat Cymbals
April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
It’s been a bit since an Animal vid has been rammed down our throats. After a while, you actually start to miss the taste.
Pro-Mark Adds to Its Roster
April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Now whacking with Pro-Mark wood are seven new endorsers, two of whom you’ve probably heard play drums before:
- Jason Bonham (Led Zeppelin and Foreigner)
- Chris Corsano (Bjork)
- Dom Howard (Muse)
- Garrett Goodwin (Carrie Underwood)
- Arthur Latin II (Harry Connick, Jr.)
- Steve Clifford (Circa Survive)
- Aquiles Priester (Hangar)
Mikkey Dee Was Naked…
April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Oh, sweet lady Absinthe, wrecker of brains and livers, what did Mikkey Dee ever do to deserve the likes of you?
While in Prague, the Motorhead drummer took a couple shots of the toxic green booze, and by evening’s end he was naked in some other dude’s bathroom. His confession:
I woke up…with a man screaming at me. I had been sleepwalking, walked into someone else’s bathroom and fallen asleep. I ran out and discovered that I was naked and without my room key. I had to take the elevator, an elevator made out of glass, down to the hotel reception.
Awesomely good times. If your cable company happens to offer the show Extra Extra! on Sweden’s TV3, you can watch Dee tell the tale himself. Let us know if strapping metal drummers blush.
Ray Luzier’s Korn Audition
April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Freakin’ sweet! A vid clip of Ray Luzier auditioning for Korn has just surfaced. The plum nu-metal gig became available after original drummer David Silveria went on hiatus and replacement drummer Terry Bozzio was given the double boot last year.
[via the mighty Blabbermouth]
A Review of New Drummer-Led Trios
April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
All About Jazz digs into new releases from three very different drummers: Bill Stewart, Stanton Moore, and Tobias Gebb. The verdict? Buy them all, of course. And steal the Moore if you have to.
Phil Collins Retiring
April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When Phil Collins announced his retirement from the music biz last week, the universe stopped what it was doing only to look up and yawn. And that is goddamn unfortunate. Sure, Collins did effectively euthanize his own musical legacy by making the brutally boring album No Jacket Required in 1985, but let’s not forget (even if it takes a Cadbury/gorilla advert to remind us) that he was one catchy-as-all-hell rock drummer. Phil, we raise our sticks to you:
Lars Ulrich Interview With Rolling Stone
April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Of course this would happen. We spend a few days unplugged in Seattle, and the whole friggin’ ‘Net explodes with great drumming news. Case in point: Rolling Stone’s recently posted interview with Lars Ulrich. In it, the Metallica drummer talks about the future of brick-and-mortar record stores, why music video games are fucking awesome, and how the band may one day release and distribute music through the Web. Ulrich says:
We want to be as free a players as possible. We’ve been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor and in twenty-seven years or however long it takes for the next record, we’ll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the Internet.
Really? Did Lars just hint at a name-your-price option for downloading a Metallica album?…Did the rulers of the recording industry just take a collective crap in their bohemian-chic designer pants?
[via CNET]
