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"Hey, man, did you hear that Lars' second bass drum got ripped off on the way to the studio, so he just decided to bag the whole blazin' thing?" "Yeah, and the new album, Load, is like this massive groove thing!" "Awesome! But what's up with the hair?" by Matt Peiken 38 Tribal Tech was already the hottest con- Amazingly,Rage Against The Machine's long-await- temporary fusion band on the scene, but a ed second album, Evil Empire, is even heavier than new jamming-based aesthetic is taking the band's self-titled barnstormer. Despite the heavy- these sonic explorers into even farther ness, though, Brad Wilk says he's managed to infuse galaxies. And you thought Kirk Covington more delicacy into the thunder. was throwing some stuff at you before! by Ken Micallef by Bill Milkowski 76 58 photo by Jay Blakesberg Volume 2O, Number 11 Cover photo by Mark Leialoha / Terri Berg Photographic education equipment 88 IN THE STUDIO 24 NEW AND NOTABLE The Reinvention Of Neil Peart by William F. Miller 28 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP Bison Snare Drum 100 HEAD TALK by Rick Mattingly Head Games: A "Good Time" Had By All 29 Vic Firth Accessories by Luther Rix by Rick Mattingly 112 ROCK 'N' JAZZ CLINIC 33 Engineered Percussion A New Look At An Old Idea Axis X Bass Drum And Hi-Hat Pedals by David Garibaldi by Chap Ostrander 114 ROCK PERSPECTIVES Stewart Copeland: news Style & Analysis, Part 1 12 UPDATE by John Xepoleas Jason Cooper of the Cure, Goldfinger's Darrin Pfeiffer, Bernie Dresel 116 STRICTLY TECHNIQUE of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Al Webster, plus News Groupings, Tempos, And Stickings by Ralph Humphrey 144 INDUSTRY HAPPENINGS 128 ARTIST ON TRACK Elvin Jones, Part 2 departments by Mark Griffith 4 EDITOR'S OVERVIEW 134 ELECTRONIC INSIGHTS Drum Triggering, Part 3: 6 READERS' PLATFORM Sound Modules by Mark Parsons 16 ASK A PRO 138 TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS Mike Portnoy and David Garibaldi Getting There—The Ins And Outs Of Instrument Cartage 20 IT'S QUESTIONABLE by Rich Watson 124 CRITIQUE profiles Progressive rock box set, Ron Miles and Mustard Seeds CDs, 102 UP & COMING Legends Of Jazz Drumming: Part 2 video, and more Joan Osborne's Charlie Quintana by David John Farinella 146 DRUM MARKET Including Vintage Showcase 111 IN MEMORIAM Sol Gubin 152 DRUMKIT OF THE MONTH by Rick Van Horn Ron Davis 74 by John Read MD GIVEAWAY Win one of twenty-five Neil Peart video box sets from DCI, one of two Neil 118 PORTRAITS Peart cymbal setups from Zildjian, or the grand prize: a duplicate of Neil's The Sex Pistols' Paul Cook new DW drumkit and Zildjian cymbal setup, along with Neil's new videos, It's by Adam Budofsky a prize package worth over $20,000! 127 ON THE MOVE The MD MasterCard I'm very proud your equipment purchases, and of course cardholders enjoy also includes customer and excited to for any other general uses where a credit satisfaction twenty-four hours a day, announce the card comes in handy. 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Percussion Marketing Council Music Magazine Publishers Association Editor's note: Never in the history of in the past, I never knew it was supposed to medium for people of all backgrounds to Modern Drummer have letters in two suc- be a "little secret." Naturally, I mentioned gain useful, pertinent information. It is this cessive issues generated such a response my elated surprise to some friends—as I'm very fact that allowed word of Neil's prac- as did Neil Peart's (August '96) and Ned sure many others did. The internet may very tices to spread. Why is Neil such an elitist? Ingberman's (July '96). Here is a sampling well be responsible for spreading the word Craig Deutsch of that response. more rapidly, but it was really inevitable via Internet that the word would get around. Perhaps the internet itself might offer a better solution We do not live in a heliocentric universe that would allow Neil and his fans to contin- with Neil Peart at its center. Is Neil sug- ue to communicate. gesting that the internet is a bad place sim- RESPONSE TO NEIL Chris Muller ply because it has increased the volume of Regarding Neil Peart's Winter Park, FL his fan mail? I should hope not. What will letter about the volume he be suggesting next—that we do away of mail he receives (and Neil's letter proves that his class goes with traffic lights because they made him the internet as the root beyond just drumming and into everything late to cash his royalty checks? cause of this): I sympa- he does in life. He does it well, he does it Travis Fogel thize with Mr. Peart to more than expected, and he holds himself via Internet an extent. The volume to a higher standard. I wish I could say I of mail must have had written Neil and that he'd answered reached the point where with one of his personal postcards—but I it was impossible for him to deal with.