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Danielson's Patrick Berkery
Trying Hartz 2008 Fall Tour Blog Diary Of all the administrative-type questions I've ever received prior to a tour ("What's your Social Security number?" "When does your passport expire?"), this was by far the strangest: "What's your shoe size?" Asking…
Pete Best: The Original Beatle Grooves On New Solo Album
Pete Best, the original drummer for The Beatles, has returned to performing in recent years. He’s also just released his first-ever CD as a leader, Haymans Green, which will definitely remind you that he was once a Beatle. Best’s music…
Steve Reid: Flow Master
(February 2009 Issue) Steve Reid has performed and recorded with more artists than most drummers have shed sticks. From James Brown and Miles Davis to Jackie McLean, Four Tet, Fela Ransome Kuti, Chaka Khan, and the Barnam & Bailey Circus, Reid…
Todd Anders Johnson of Salem
Greetings, Modern Drummers. My name is Todd Anders Johnson, and my band is called Salem. Our music is a blend of socially conscious funk, Afro-Cuban jazz, and hip-hop. I'm the drummer, vocalist, lyricist, composer, and producer in the band, and…
JD of My Ruin
Hello all you Modern Drummer readers. My name is JD, and I'm the drummer for the Los Angeles—based hard rock band known as My Ruin. I've been asked to introduce myself and write my first blog for MD online, so…
Molly Hatchet's Bruce Crump
Hey there, MD skin bashers! Bruce Crump here–original Molly Hatchet drummer! Thought I'd take a moment and provide an update, especially for those of you who might not be familiar with my band's history. It's Jacksonville, Florida, early '76. Molly…
Daniel Adair: Truth Or Dair
Nickelback owns rock radio. Over the past five years the band has sold more than twenty-six million records while garnering awards and top-ten singles faster then you can say “Oh Canada.” In addition, Nickelback has set records on Billboard…
Derico Watson: Pocket, Chops, and Soul
Laying Down A Thunderous Groove With Victor Wooten and S.M.V. For the past five years, Michigan native Derico Watson has held one of the most coveted chairs a drummer could imagine, touring regularly with pioneering bassist Victor Wooten. A modest…
John Convertino: Finding The Sweet Spot
Read more in the February 2009 Issue of Modern Drummer Calexico drummer John Convertino has always been more a mood-setter than a traditional timekeeper. And his band’s sixth album, "Carried To Dust", offers plenty of examples of the drummer’s tone…
Eric Valentine: Firing It Up With Luke
Eric Valentine has always enjoyed performing with different people, so going from Patti LaBelle to former Toto six-stringer Steve Lukather wasn’t really a challenge for him, it was just another gig. “When I was growing up,” Valentine says, “I listened…
Vegas Temper's Mark Morin
What's up, MD! My name is Mark Morin, and I've been playing the drums for about twenty years now. I started out watching my dad play as a kid, and that's what I wanted to do the rest of my…
Suicide City's Dan Lamagna
Hello, MD online readers and MySpacers. Last month was a special one for me. I played on two new releases! First off, Suicide City, a band I've been in since 2003, filmed a show at CBGB a few years back,…
Crooked X's Boomer Simpson
Hey, MD, this is Boomer with Crooked X. We're a metal band made up of ninth-graders from Coweta, Oklahoma. I started playing drums when I was nine years old–listening to bands like Metallica, Skid Row, Slipknot, and Megadeth. They were…
Pendulum's Kodish
Yo, howzit goin', USA? Kodish here, on the road in Europe with Pendulum. If you're unfamiliar with the band, we're a London-based act and have a rock and electronic, bass-heavy sound, or to put it another way, we play rock…
