Modern Drummer Issue 463

2018·15.5 MB·English

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CCOONNTTEENTNSTS Volume 42 • Number 6
Cover and Contents photos by Alex Solca
ON THE COVER 22 UP & COMING: JIMMY MACBRIDE
26 STEWART by Ilya Stemkovsky
COPELAND
24 DRUM WISDOM: JIM MOLA
Forty years ago the passion and presence
by Keith Carne
he displayed with the Police locked the
drum world on his every move. Since
SPECIAL THEME ISSUE: 1978
then, he’s tackled world music projects,
MD travels back forty years with six
orchestral works, Hollywood soundtracks,
of the biggest rock drummers of the day.
and much more. Now he’s returned to
good-’ol rocking out. 38 RUSS KUNKEL
by Ken Micallef by Jeff Potter
40 FOREIGNER’S DENNIS ELLIOTT
by Robin Tolleson
42 PETER CRISS OF KISS
by Billy Amendola
44 RICK MAROTTA
by Billy Amendola
46 HEART’S MICHAEL DEROSIER
by Patrick Berkery
48 BILL BRUFORD
by Adam Budofsky
53 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT…BASS DRUM HEADS
by Michael Dawson
LESSONS DEPARTMENTS
58 OFF THE RECORD 8 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
Blake Richardson on Between the Buried and Me’s Automata, Part 1 A Year in Transition by Michael Dawson
Digging Into the Veteran Technical-Metal Group’s Latest Off ering by Willie Rose
10 READERS’ PLATFORM
62 PLAY IT NOW What’s Your Favorite 1970s Jazz or
Must-Know Grooves Disco, a Drumming Staple of the 1970s by Jim Riley Fusion Drumming Album?
64 ROCK ’N’ JAZZ CLINIC 12 OUT NOW
Five-Note Phrasing Part 2: Adding More Tension and Release by Marc Dicciani Dafnis Prieto on the Dafnis Prieto Big Band’s
Back to the Sunset
68 JAZZ DRUMMER’S WORKSHOP
13 ON TOUR
Up-Tempo Studies Part 3: Comping with Quarters and 8th Notes by Steve Fidyk
Diego Arcaute with Juana Molina
70 ROCK PERSPECTIVES
80 CRITIQUE
Introduction to Polyrhythms How to Play Odd Groupings, Part 1 by Aaron Edgar
Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Mike Mangini
72 CONCEPTS with Into the Great Divide, Legend of the
Do I Need a Fallback Plan? Part 1: Assessing Your Path by Russ Miller Seagullmen with Danny Carey, and more
84 BACKBEATS
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14 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP
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AANN E DEIDTOITRO’S ROV’SE ROVVIEEWRVIEW
A Year in Transition
Founder
Ronald Spagnardi
1943–2003
Publisher/CEO Isabel Spagnardi
T Senior Vice President Lori Spagnardi
here have been numerous landmark by
events in music history that have Lei Vice President Kevin W. Kearns
n
made certain years seem more signifi cant oh Associate Publisher Tracy A. Kearns
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than others, such as the death of Johann
Advertising Director Bob Berenson
Sebastian Bach in 1750, which signifi ed the
Advertising Assistant LaShanda Gibson
end of the Baroque period, or the dawn
of the jazz era following the release of the Senior Art Director Scott G. Bienstock
fi rst Original Dixieland Jazz Band album Contributing Designer Richard Leeds
in 1917. And who can overlook British
Editorial Director Adam J. Budofsky
pop/rock’s global takeover following
Managing Editor Michael Dawson
the Beatles’ 1964 debut appearance on
American television? Associate Editor Willie Rose
But what about the stretches of time Editor at Large Billy Amendola
that passed between those rare, singular
Business and Content Development Miguel Monroy
events? As an experiment, we decided to
take a more macro look at one of those transitional periods, 1978, The MD Pro Panel: Chris Adler, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Will Calhoun,
and quickly realized that a ton of things went down that year. The Terri Lyne Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Bob Gatzen,
Daniel Glass, Benny Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward,
pioneering punk band the Sex Pistols played its fi nal show, disco
Taku Hirano, Susie Ibarra, Jim Keltner, Pat Mastelotto, Allison Miller, Rod Morgenstein,
music took over the mainstream following the release of Saturday Chris Pennie, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley,
Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward,
Night Fever, Van Halen blew minds for the fi rst time with its new
Kenny Washington, Paul Wertico
brand of power rock, legendary drummer Keith Moon died from a
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