“I got a hacksaw, chopped down the stand and put the hi-hats down there”: How Simon Phillips learned to play left-handed

His double bass drum set and generous cymbal array is a throwback to powerhouse fusion drummer innovators Lenny White and Billy Cobham – both sometime Tama endorsers (Billy Cobham is a current Tama ...

‘He Marches Right Through the Song’: Steve Albini on How Charlie Watts’s Snare Defined The Rolling Stones

Charlie Watts embodies this book’s thesis. It’s impossible to imagine the Rolling Stones without him, and he was just as crucial to their sound as Keith Richards’ guitar or Mick Jagger’s singing. In ...
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“I got a hacksaw and I chopped down the stand and put the hi-hats down there”: How the right-handed Simon Phillips learned to play left-handed as a young drum…

As a right-handed drummer, Phillips developed his signature open-handed technique by watching Cobham and White on stage in ...

“It doesn’t sound human”: The two tracks that show both sides of John Bonham, according to Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl breaks down the most human and inhuman sides of the legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. The Foo Fighters' ...