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NO DOUBT'S CHAD SEXTON ADRIAN YOUNG OF 311 It's all fun and games—and then you get huge. Chad and Adrian rap about the big-league balance. by Robyn Flans 52 BLAZE AROUND THE KIT! BUILDING SINGLE-STROKE-ROLL CHOPS A legendary chopsmeister and a leading practitioner show you the way. by Billy Cobham and Chet Doboe 74 THE VERVE PIPE'S DONNY BROWN He sings. He writes. He plays guitar. And man does he drum. by T. Bruce Wittet 82 DRIVER'S SEAT Solca PHIL COLLINS Alex Another year, another challenge: Phil explores the land of big bands. Plus Chester Thompson on being back in the fold. UPDATE by Robyn Flans Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy 28 Travis Barker of Blink 182 Shania Twain's J.D. Blair TS Monk PERCUSSION TODAY Kenny Wolleson MARC QUINONES OF THE ALLMAN BROTHERS 20 Adding intrigue to the Allmans' arsenal. by Martin Cohen 96 Cover Photo By Alex Solca Volume 23, Number 12 education departments 104 JAZZ DRUMMERS' WORKSHOP 6 AN EDITOR'S OVERVIEW Second-Line Applications A Pound Of Cure Funkify Your Beats N'awlins-Style by Rick Van Horn by John Riley 8 READERS' PLATFORM 106 ROCK CHARTS Will Calhoun: "Funny Vibe" Transcribed by Rich Rychel 12 ASK A PRO Virgil Donati, John Tempesta, and 110 ROCK 'N' JAZZ CLINIC Narada Michael Walden Double Bass Ideas, Part 2 by Rod Morgenstein 14 IT'S QUESTIONABLE 122 HEALTH & SCIENCE 114 CRITIQUE Lower Back Maintenance by Matt Dilosa 126 A DIFFERENT VIEW Joe Lovano Sax Giant With A Drummer's View 130 ON THE MOVE by Mark Griffith 140 MD's 1999 INDEX UPDATE 152 INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS 144 N.P.I./MD Summer Drum Extravaganza and more, MD GIVEAWAY including Taking The Stage Win One Of Several Amazing Prizes From Yamaha! 156 DRUM MARKET Over $11,000 In Equipment! Including Vintage Showcase 160 DRUMKIT OF THE MONTH equipment 38 NEW AND NOTABLE New At Summer NAMM In Nashville by Rick Mattingly 44 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP Premier Cabria Lacquer Series Drumkit by Rick Van Horn 46 Sabian V-FX And Richie "Gajate" Garcia Specialty Cymbals by Chap Ostrander 48 Quick Looks: MAPA Drumat and Beato Drumset Dust Cover 118 COLLECTORS' CORNER Slingerland Fiesta Artist Model Snare Drum by Harry Cangany 132 SHOP TALK Vintage Drums For Today's Music A Conversation With Ross Garfield by Rick Van Horn A Pound Of Cure y July editorial ("An Ounce Of Prevention") described how painful condition that might end my career at any moment, or have hard a drumming career can be on one's body. I explained the surgery, and incur a crippling debt. Beyond the medical costs, M how lifting and carrying equipment, jumping off stages, and there would be lost income while I was laid up. Then I might have doing a variety of other damaging activities had left me with bad to pay someone to "tech" for me for several months after that! knees and a lower-back condition. I concluded by encouraging What if I were a young drummer in a band just getting their first drummers to take precautions to avoid such physical problems. break? Could they wait for my recovery? Would they lose their Now I'm going to tell you what might happen if you don't take opportunity? Would they replace me? those precautions—as I didn't. On June 17 I entered the hospital to These are questions I wouldn't even want to ponder. have two disks in my lower back replaced with steel reinforce- Fortunately, you don't have to. You can reap a positive benefit ments, fusing the vertebrae above and below. The details of the from my negative experience. If you're healthy, you can make a surgery aren't important, but the ramifications are. conscious decision to do whatever is necessary to stay healthy. I was in the hospital for four days, then laid up at home for two This includes changing the way you handle and transport your weeks. As I write this I'm bound in a corset-style back brace, gear. (See this month's Health & Science for some excellent tips.) which I'll wear 24/7 for another month. I can't bend over to tie my If you are experiencing any physical problems, seek solutions shoes, and I've been told not to lift anything heavier than a loaf of now, before they become worse. Don't take the attitude that "the bread for at least six months. I can physically play a set of drums, little aches and pains just come with the job" and aren't important. but I won't be able to handle one until the middle of next year! They're warning signs, and you should heed them! Between the hospital charges, four surgical specialists, and six If I sound like a crusader, it's because I've become one—big months of physical therapy, my medical costs will come to around time. I've experienced my "pound of cure." I don't want anyone $60,000. Thankfully, Modern Drummer has a pretty good health else to have to do the same. So use your head, and protect your insurance plan, so most of that will be covered. But what if it body. You'll be able to play now without having to pay later! weren't? What if I were a self-employed freelance drummer? What would be my options? Either not have the surgery, and live with a Volume 23, Number 12 The World's Most Widely Read Drum Magazine EDITOR/PUBLISHER RONALD SPAGNARDI MODERN DRUMMER PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY MODERN DRUMMER welcomes manuscripts and photographic BOARD: Henry Adler, Kenny Aronoff, Eddie Bayers, Louie Bellson, material, however, cannot assume responsibility for them. Such items CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER ISABEL SPAGNARDI Bill Bruford, Harry Cangany, Jim Chapin, Dennis DeLucia, Les must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. 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Marketing Council, Music Magazine Publishers Association Email: [email protected] OFFICE ASSISTANT ROSLYN MADIA Printed in The United States MODERN DRUMMER ONLINE: www.moderndrummer.com TUBBLEFIELD & STARKS Thanks for drummers who don't necessarily play enlightening "black" music. Believe it or not, we do still HANKS TO THE MD TEAM the drumming exist and have some new things to say. A heartfelt thanks for your tireless efforts world to the Thanks again! over the years to bring the choice in drum- gifts that John Clayton Craddock ming magazines to the market. In a time "Jabo" Starks via Internet when ethics, morals, value, and quality and Clyde seem to have been leeched out of the pub- Stubblefield lishing industry, your standard of excel- have given us ARREN JESSE lence stands out. over the years. I was really impressed with your article on The interviewing team is exceptional: They are two of Ben Folds Five drummer Darren Jesse. William F. Miller, Robyn Flans, and Matt the greatest funk drummers who have ever [September '99 MD] Darren is so right Peiken are able to extract information in an walked the face of the planet. I grew up in about music today being all the same. On open, non-threatening way, so that readers the '70s and have been influenced by them, the other hand, he himself is a tribute to get a real peek inside the mind and lives of along with all of the greats of that era, such truly original drummers like Buddy Rich interview subjects.