Feature Stories
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Teddy Campbell
After working as drummer and musical director for 98', Teddy Campbell was asked to join The Backstreet Boys band by Ricky Miner, who put both bands together. Campbell and The Boys have been touring constantly, with dates booked well into…
Brendan Canty of Fugazi
"We approach each project without referring to the previous one," says Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty. Indeed, Fugazi's sixth full-length album, The Argument (Dischord), once again shows the veteran Washington, DC punk band moving into fresh territory. About half of the…
Keith Carlock: More Than Time For Sting
Making his Big Apple splash working with The Blues Brothers and Wayne Krantz, Mississippi-born Keith Carlock went on to record and tour with Steely Dan. A tremendous groove player who can also flatten your ears with his dazzling all-over-the-kit prowess,…
Michael Cartellone
It's been a little over a year since former Damn Yankees drummer Michael Cartellone joined Lynyrd Skynyrd. He came into the picture shortly after the band released Edge Of Forever, which Kenny Aronoff had recorded. Ironically, just the previous year,…
Torry Castellano of The Donnas
Each member of The Donnas has all just barely passed the mile marker of twenty-one years old. (Their latest Lookout Records release is titled Turn 21.) But drummer Donna C (real name: Torry Castellano, real age: twenty-two) has more accomplishments…
Jimmy Chamberlin: Update
When Smashing Pumpkins disbanded in late 2000, vocalist Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin decided to take a year off before working together on another project. Those plans quickly changed. "After three months of complete boredom," Chamberlin recalls, "Billy asked…
Dennis Chambers: Santana Now: A Force Of Nature
A rhythmic force of nature since its inception in San Francisco's Mission District in 1966, the Santana band has always set the bar high. And now, with superstar drummer Dennis Chambers joining percussionists Raul Rekow and Karl Perazzo, the bar…
Dennis Chambers, Raul Rekow, Karl Perazzo on Santana Now
Dennis Chambers, Raul Rekow, Karl Perazzo Santana Now: A Force Of Nature A rhythmic force of nature since its inception in San Francisco's Mission District in 1966, the Santana band has always set the bar high. And now, with superstar…
Karl Perazzo, Dennis Chambers and Raul Rekow with Santana
A rhythmic force of nature since its inception in San Francisco's Mission District in 1966, the Santana band has always set the bar high. And now, with superstar drummer Dennis Chambers joining percussionists Raul Rekow and Karl Perazzo, the…
Jim Chapin
It's a steamy tropical night in South Florida. I'm sitting out on Jim Chapin's lanai, watching the eighty-one-year-old drummer rip off amazing licks on his ever-present practice pad while the tree frogs and locusts in the backyard provide a symphonic…
Chad Chapin of Tait
"It's definitely hotter when you have blood running in the rhythm section," says Tait drummer Chad Chapin. Chapin and his bass-wielding brother Lonnie began playing together twenty-two years ago at their dad's church in Bend, Oregon. "We'd go down to…
Oliver Charles
It wasn't the Gospel songs that Oliver Charles was asked to play during The Blind Boys Of Alabama and Ben Harper sessions last spring that knocked him for a loop. It was the singers themselves. "The music fit in with…
Stephen Chopek
Who the heck is Stephen Chopek? Where did this guy come from? Just ask Charlie Hunter. You know, that famous guy on Blue Note who plays the eight-string guitar. A couple of years ago Chopek was studying with New York…
Jim Christie
Jim Christie will play just about anything. "I love playing polkas," he says. "I'll play Norte-o music all day long. I love playing straight-ahead jazz. I love playing country. I like playing anything, as long as it's good." Just as…
