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Sam Fogarino of Interpol
Drums are the heart of rock 'n' roll - even Huey Lewis will cop to that. So why were the first forty seconds of Interpol's 2002 debut, Turn On The Bright Lights, missing drums? Why was it nothing but dawdling…
Jake Fowler of Mad At Gravity
As if recording wasn't tough enough, imagine having to play drums with a bad cold and having your mouth covered with duct tape. Alas, that's where Mad At Gravity's Jake Fowler found himself while recording the band's debut release, Resonance.…
Jeff Fowlkes of Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
Detroit resident Jeff Fowlkes couldn't be happier with his gig, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise. He's been touring with some of the biggest names in rock with RBBS (Dave Matthews Band, Allman Brothers, H.O.R.D.E.), he has plenty of calls to work…
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…
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…
