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PAISTE NOISE WORKS • FILTER • SPOTLIGHT ON REMO
THOMAS LANG
EUROPEAN WONDER
MICKEY ROKER
DIZZY, ELLA, BAGS & BEYOND
RAYMOND HERRERA
KUSH-Y PAD
REMEMBERING GARY CHESTER
DRUMMING FOR DUOS
WHITE STRIPES, LOCAL H, JUCIFE, & MORE!
THOMAS LANG
EUROPEAN WONDER
MICKEY ROKER
DIZZY, ELLA, BAGS & BEYOND
RAYMOND HERRERA
KUSH-Y PAD
REMEMBERING GARY CHESTER
DRUMMING FOR DUOS
WHITE STRIPES, LOCAL H, JUCIFER & MORE!
JIMMY EAT WORLD’S
ZACH LIND
JIMMY EAT WORLD’S
ZACH LIND
Contents
Contents
JIMMY EATS WORLD’S
ZACH LIND
Yeah, they’re pure pop, all the way. But don’t be fooled.
Jimmy Eat World invests their catchy gems with more
than a little depth, starting right with the rock-solid but
intriguing drumming of Zach Lind.
by Waleed Rashidi
Volume 26, Number 11
Cover photo by Jay Blakesberg, inset photo by Heinz Kronberger
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THOMAS LANG
Robbie Williams and Geri Halliwell just need a simple-
minded 4/4 guy on the traps, right? Um…wrong—way
wrong. If his performance at MD’s 2002 Drum Festival
was any indication, you might want to start looking for
the most progressive drum antics on earth to come
from the pop world.
by T. Bruce Wittet
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UPDATE
Filter’s Steven Gillis
Warlord’s Mark Zonder
Mad At Gravity’s Jake Fowler
Days Of The New’s Ray Rizzo
Johnny Mathis’s Joe Lizama
“Organic” Drummer Danny Frankel
WOODSHED
Kush’s Ray Herrera
Just because Fear Factory has broken up doesn’t mean
their great rehearsal space had to go unused. FF’s mas-
ter blaster, Ray Herrera, now holds sway at The
Downtown Rehearsal—with some new buds.
by Will Romano
FROM THE PAST
Gary Chester
As a player, but just as importantly as a teacher,
Gary Chester helped further the drumming of some of
our most legendary players.
by Hal B. Selzer
IN MEMORIAM
Motown Master
Richard “Pistol” Allen,
Paiste Director Toomas Paiste
by Rick Van Horn
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MD GIVEAWAY
Win A Custom Drumkit From Spaun Drums,
Along With A Set Of Handmade Turkish Cymbals!
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DRUMMING FOR
THE NEW DUOS
In the first part of a new series called Trends,
MD takes a look at the unusual challenges of
the drummer in some of today’s hottest duos:
White Stripes, Local H, Jucifer, and Cash Audio.
by Jim DeRogatis
MICKEY ROKER
From Count Basie, to Ella Fitzgerald, to Sonny Rollins,
to Herbie Hancock, to Dizzie Gillespie, to—oh, you get
the idea. Mickey Roker is jazz history incarnate, and he
ain’t slowing down any time soon.
by Mike DeSimone
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OFF THE RECORD
Jimmy Eat World’s Zach Lind
by Ed Breckenfeld
94
ROCK ’N’ JAZZ CLINIC
One-Of-A-Kind Patterns:
Unusual Exercises Can
Stretch Your Technique
by Rod Morgenstein
98
THE MUSICAL DRUMMER
Understanding The Language
Of Music, Part 14:
Chord Progressions 101
by Ron Spagnardi
102 ROCK CHARTS
Default’s Danny Craig:
“Wasting My Time”
by Joe Bergamini
106 HEALTH & SCIENCE
Martial Arts For
Today’s Drummer, Part 2:
Motion, Power, And Flow
by Dave Fusco
124 ENCORE
Blondie: Eat To The Beat
by Adam Budofsky
126 FIRST PERSON
The Audition
by Ed Wahba
130 TEACHERS’ FORUM
The Recording Teacher:
Using Technology To Enhance
The Teaching Process
by Dan Garvin
Education
Equipment
32 NEW AND NOTABLE
Summer NAMM 2002!
42 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP
Sonor Force 1001 Studio Drumkit
by Mike Haid
44 Pacific Snare Drums
by Martin Patmos
46 Paiste Noise Works Cymbals
by T. Bruce Wittet
48 Sonor Giant Step Bass Drum Pedals
by Mike Haid
49 Quick Looks: Protection Racket
Drum And Cymbal Bags
by Martin Patmos
51 Quick Looks:
Paiste Innovations Cymbals
by Mike Haid and T. Bruce Wittet
116 SHOP TALK
Building Your Own Drumset,
Part 4: Drilling And Assembly
by Paul Bielewicz
136 COLLECTORS’ CORNER
The Rogers Dyna-Sonic
Snare Drum Revisited
by Harry Cangany
Removing Tension-Rod Rust
by Ned Ingberman
148 SPOTLIGHT
Remo: Heads And Beyond
by Rick Van Horn
PPaaggee 116622
PPaaggee 3377
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IT’S QUESTIONABLE
144 ON THE MOVE
162 CRITIQUE
166 BACKBEATS
New Orleans JazzFest 2002,
International Custom & Vintage
Drum Show, and more
Departments
8
AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW
Into The Woods
by Rick Van Horn
10
READERS’ PLATFORM
14
ASK A PRO
Larry Mullen Jr., Richie Hayward,
and Phil Collins
172 DRUM MARKET
Including Vintage Showcase
176 DRUMKIT OF THE MONTH
PPaaggee 4488
Modern Drummer
November 2002
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y the time you read this, summer will be over, and tempera-
tures may be cooling off where you are. But as I write it, New
Jersey is sweltering under a mid-summer heat wave. Normally
that wouldn’t be a subject for an MD editorial. But it just so hap-
pens that for the first time in many years, I’m doing an outdoor
gig. And I’m learning all over again what that entails.
I’m playing drums and percussion for a production of Steven
Sondheim’s Into The Woods. Appropriately, the show is being
presented in the woods—on an outdoor stage in a local county
park. Our “orchestra pit” is actually a concrete slab in front of the
elevated stage. We’re in full view of the audience—and in full
contact with the elements.
Thus far, that “contact” has included baking in the sun during
afternoon rehearsals, having the wind turn the pages of my
music at inappropriate times, and being swarmed by gnats and
mosquitoes attracted to my stand light after dark. We haven’t
been rained on yet, but summer thunderstorms are common
around here, so it’s only a matter of time.
Because our “pit” is an unsecured area, I have to set up and
break down for every performance. My drums sound somewhat
wimpy to me in the open air. And I burned my fingers at the end
of the last rehearsal when I touched a cymbal that had become
hot enough to fry eggs.
The thing is...I’m really having a lot of fun! Call me crazy, but
I’m enjoying the challenge and the change to my regular playing
routine. Besides, I figure if I can live through the experience, I’ll
have a great tale to add to my collection of “war stories.” So this
afternoon I’ll pack up my drums, my sunscreen, my mosquito
repellent, and my umbrella, and head for the woods. The show
must go on!
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