Friday Nuggets
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Friday Nuggets: Joe Butler’s Cannons
Check out the drum production on this number-one hit by the Lovin’ Spoonful, from August, 1966. You didn’t often hear drums quite so prominently on a pop hit in the mid-’60s. But there’s a drama to “Summer in the City,”…
Friday Nuggets: Paul Thompson’s Trip From Roxy Music to Lindisfarne
Roxy Music, featuring Paul Thompson (far right) It’s funny how we define our favorite players. While drummers who came of age in the ’70s heyday of FM radio would associate Paul Thompson with the early era of the groundbreaking British…
Friday Nuggets: Early Bee Gees Drum Fun
The seventh Bee Gees album, Cucumber Castle, is unique for a couple reasons. Most famously, Robin Gibb had left the group in 1969, previous to the recording of the soundtrack to a television special of the same name, which was…
