Drummer Blog
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Royal Crown Revue's Daniel Glass
Hello, fellow drummers and MD readers!, It's a pleasure and a privilege to throw my hat into this incredible blog, and to share a bit about what's been going on in my world for the last several years. As many…
Jason Scarboro of Dead Confederate
Greetings, MD readers, this is Jason Scarboro, here to fill you in with a little background information about myself and my band Dead Confederate. I've been playing drums for twelve years, but I actually started my musical journey playing the…
Spencer Peterson
Hello, MD readers! My name is Spencer Peterson, and I first took an interest in the drums at an early age, though it wasn't until I was ten years old that I took them seriously. Throughout middle and high school…
Kevin Zubek
The year 2008 has proven to be quite a productive and exciting one for me. I'm playing drums in three new projects, all quite different from one another. Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom is a Jewish avant/hard rock band with a CD…
Vinnie Zummo
Hi, MD readers, Vinnie Zummo here. Though I'm best known for my seven years as a featured guitarist with The Joe Jackson Band, I've played the drums for as long as I've played guitar. On my latest CD, Swinging Guitar…
Mika Fineo
Hello, fellow MD readers, my name is Mika Fineo. For those who don't know me, I'm the drummer for the rock band Filter ("Take A Picture," "Hey Man Nice Shot"). Here's a short blog about how I got to where…
Roman Klun
Hello, MD readers. Steve Gadd, Aaron Comess, Jerry Marotta, all Yamaha drummers and featured on the same record.... Pretty good karma to say the least. Oh, and melodically and graciously felt in the bottom end by "funk fingers" himself, Tony…
Nick Gimiliano
Hello, out there, my name is Nick Gimiliano and I am very honored to be asked to contribute to Modern Drummer's blogs. I have been the house drummer on PBS's American Soundtrack series and most recently on the My Music…
Richard Hoak of Total F**king Destruction & Brutal Truth
Hi, everyone! My name is Richard Hoak, and I've been playing drums professionally since 1992. Currently I'm playing with Total F**king Destruction and with the legendary and recently re-formed grind band Brutal Truth. Some of you might remember my appearance…
Lou Santiago Jr.
Hello, MD readers! It's been a while since I last appeared in Modern Drummer. For those of you who aren't familiar with me, my name is Lou Santiago Jr., and I was the 2003 MD Undiscovered Drummer Contest winner in…
Dennis Leeflang
I never really saw myself as a session drummer. Touring is what I like to do best. I love to travel, I love hotel rooms, I love having to improvise on the road, I love meeting new people. I did…
Ricardo Lagomasino
I played in a Rush cover band in high school. I went to jazz school. I played in a West African dance troupe. I marched snare drum in a drum & bugle corps. There were times in my life when…
Nate Morton
Here's a quickie for MD Online readers. Just wanted to throw a couple things out there. I'm about to find myself back on television again, playing in the house band on The Bonnie Hunt Show. Bonnie is an actress whose…
Amir Ziv
When MD managing editor Adam Budofsky suggested I write about my recent eight-day live-on-the-land drumming apprenticeship program, I realized this might be a great opportunity to think more deeply about what the concept of apprenticeship really means to me, and…
