Feature Stories
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Denise Fraser
Denise Fraser's drumming career has involved some serious island-hopping. When last we spoke with her, she was on the island of Manhattan, playing for Sandra Bernhardt's Broadway show at the Booth Theater. The success of that show led to a…
Brian Frasier-Moore
Philly born and raised Brian Frasier-Moore has been supplying the beat for Christina Aguilera since the beginning of her career. Not only is he thrilled to be her drummer, he also appreciates the relationship they've cultivated. "We're best friends," Brian…
Ian Froman
Ferocious! That's Ian Froman live with Dave Liebman, Rick Margitza, and his own band, Metalwood. If Froman kept a proper scrapbook, instead of envelopes strewn about his Greenwich Village co-op, it would be bulging with clippings exclaiming much the same…
John Gardner
Thanks to the urging of Dixie Chicks multi-instrumentalist John Mock, a little over a year ago drummer/percussionist John Gardner took a leave of absence from his gig as staff drummer at the Grand Ole Opry. Why? To play percussion with…
Steven Gillis of Filter
A couple of years ago Steven Gillis got a call from his old drummer friend Matt Walker, who had been playing in Filter. Walker told him to go buy Filter's Short Bus and learn it, because he was going to…
Daniel Glass: Royal Crown Revue - Playing With Fire
Daniel Glass says leaving a major record label has had a lot of ramifications for Royal Crown Revue. But the main reason they did it was to have freedom to make their new record, Walk On Fire, the way they…
Omar Gongora
The key to watching Kinky's drummer/percussionist Omar Gongora live is to never blink. The fiery drummer, who fuels the band's blend of Latin rock, electronica, and disco, never stops moving as he swings from a DW drumkit that he plays…
Robin Goodridge of Bush
"I'm a straight-ahead player," admits Robin Goodridge of Bush. "You'll find very few extended fills of bizarre time signatures in our music. But I try to find new ways of playing basic rock music. One thing I'll do is move…
Andy Granelli of The Distillers
Punk-rock revivalists The Distillers have hit on a musical formula that could spell big success for their much buzzed-about major-label debut. Coral Fang infuses the old-school passion and lyrical relevance of hardcore punk legends like LA's Germs and Black Flag…
Trey Gray
"I had horrible gigs when I moved to town," Trey Gray recalls about moving from his hometown of South Bend, Indiana to Nashville, Tennessee. "Sometimes the gigs I did were only for the door, so I might only make a…
Dave Grohl: Returning To His Roots With Probot
(September 2005 Issue)Many drummers have hit it big since the post-metal resurgence of the early '90s. But no one has had the impact and influence of Dave Grohl. With the full-body flam and bass drum contortions of Nirvana's "Smells Like…
Trilok Gurtu
His style is often described as a blend of Indian music and jazz, but Trilok Gurtu denies that he's a jazz musician. "I like jazz, but I'm an Indian musician, just as John Coltrane liked Indian music but was a…
Bruce Guttridge
Dennis Chambers recently described Bruce Guttridge as "a monster" of a player (January 2000 MD). The compliment is well deserved; Bruce is one of the Mid-Atlantic's hardest working and most in-demand drummers. Coming off of a five-year stint with Ien…
Dana Hammond
Dana Hammond is all about setting goals and working to accomplish them. Even while working with Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore, and performing and appearing in such high-profile commercials as Faith Hill's recent Pepsi ad, the drummer was thinking about…
