Drummers are different. They like to hit things hard and often and sometimes even show off – “cue drum solo now.” While The Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts has long been content to lay down the beat with a classic 4-piece jazz kit, other drummers need more – sometimes many more – drums and cymbals and cowbells [...]
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Drumming in a rock and roll band – or any band – has its own challenges. They call it limb independence, but until you’ve tried to keep one time with the right side of your body and a different time with the left, it’s hard to appreciate the skill that the best rock drummers bring [...]
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KISS – Recollections, Part II Continuing on with our discussion of the KISS discography, Classicrockmusicblog.com publisher, Todd Whitesel, and I turn our attentions to the band’s bombastic, yet commercially disappointing second album, 1974’s Hotter Than Hell. KISS – Hotter Than Hell For many years, Hotter Than Hell was the gaping hole in my record collection. [...]
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Somewhere in the distance, an inbred kid is playing a series of beckoning banjo chords… Anyone who knows me well understands that I have had a long-standing love/hate relationship with the band KISS. After discussing this affliction with ClassicRockMusicBlog.com publisher, Todd Whitesel, we’ve decided to embark on a journey to define exactly what both of [...]
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25 Great Moments in Rock Drumming – Day 2: Eric Carr, “I Love It Loud,” from Kiss’s Creatures Of The Night Eric Carr was cut from the John Bonham cloth, employing a massive attack, emphasizing big and burly beating. Yet Carr was a more polished musician than Kiss predecessor Peter Criss. “I Love It Loud” [...]
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