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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 12 Modern Drummer June 2014 June 2013 Modern Drummer 1 CONTENTS Volume 43 • Number 12 CONTENTS Cover and contents photos by Travis Shinn 12 AEROSMITH IN VEGAS We check in with drummer Joey Kramer and percussionist Colin Douglas as the band attacks its current Deuces Are Wild Las Vegas residency. 42 SECURITY PROJECT’S JERRY MAROTTA Recreating the sounds and grooves he conceived with Peter Gabriel—and reminding us just how shockingly satisfying they were. by Ken Micallef 48 JERRY ROE By day he makes hits with country-music superstars. By night he pounds it out with his raging rock band. by Jeff Potter 54 LINDA PITMON The drummer at the legendary Peter Buck/ ON THE COVER Steve Wynn/Scott McCaughey axis. by Adam Budofsky 30 TOOL’S DANNY CAREY On the highly anticipated new album, Fear Inoculum, his 60 MANU KATCHÉ thunderous tribal tom grooves and mind-bending odd-meter Avoiding the obvious, ignoring the plaudits, and patterns have never sounded so right. always being himself. by Ilya Stemkovsky by Ilya Stemkovsky 64 REASONS TO LOVE THE VELVET UNDERGROUND This month we check out some classic tracks from the infl uential band and associated artists. by Patrick Berkery LESSONS DEPARTMENTS 66 ROCK ’N’ JAZZ CLINIC 4 AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” Variations by Dylan Wissing Every Drummer’s a Snowfl ake by Adam Budofsky 68 JAZZ DRUMMER’S WORKSHOP Funkify Your Swing, Part 3 by Steve Fidyk 6 READERS’ PLATFORM What’s Your Favorite Danny Carey Track? 70 AROUND THE WORLD Samba Rhythms, Part 2 by Kiko Freitas 8 OUT NOW Brian Chippendale on Lightning Bolt’s 72 ROCK PERSPECTIVES Sonic Citadel Five-over-Two Variations by Aaron Edgar 10 ON TOUR Andy Woodard and Jola with Adam Ant EQUIPMENT 76 RETAILER PROFILE Memphis Drum Shop 14 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP 80 CRITIQUE Tama Starclassic Walnut/Birch Drumset WIN! A DW package worth Dynamicx Medallion Brass Snares 82 BOOKINGS NickyMoon “1” Series Cymbals more than $12,000! Mike Edison’s Sympathy for the Drummer: Blue Microphones Drangonfl y and Page 62 Why Charlie Watts Matters Mouse Condensers 84 THE 2019 DCI WORLD 22 GEARING UP CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS Origin’s John Longstreth 87 IN MEMORIAM 26 IN THE STUDIO Harvey Vogel The Off spring’s Pete Parada 88 KIT OF THE MONTH 74 NEW AND NOTABLE A Modern Class Act AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Every Drummer’s a Snowfl ake Founder Ronald Spagnardi 1943–2003 o, not that kind of snowfl ake—you’ll have to Nfi nd me at the bar if you want to talk politics. President/CEO Isabel Spagnardi What I’m talking about here is the age-old Senior Vice President Lori Spagnardi concept of every snowfl ake being utterly unique. After forty-odd years of deep conversation and Publisher David Frangioni deeper listening, it’s more obvious to me than Vice President Kevin W. Kearns ever that no two drummers are at all alike. Associate Publisher Tracy A. Kearns No matter how much the public might try to pigeonhole us as a group (of course we’re not all Jim Esposito Advertising Director Bob Berenson like Animal from The Muppet Show), no two of Advertising Assistant LaShanda Gibson us are the same. Not even if we want to be. No matter how much we mimic Senior Art Director Scott G. Bienstock our heroes in the woodshed, or how many of the same records we listen to, Editorial Director Adam J. Budofsky method books we work out of, or snare drums we spend our hard-earned cash on, no two of us will ever be the same. Not exactly. Managing Editor Michael Dawson Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s important to learn what makes the great Editor at Large Billy Amendola drummers tick, and which records represent our art at the highest and most infl uential levels. Likewise, it will only benefi t you to at least have a working knowledge of concepts explored in classic texts like Master Studies and The THE MD PRO PANEL/ADVISORY BOARD: Chris Adler, Kenny Aronoff, Eddie Bayers, Gregg Bissonette, Jason Bittner, Bill Bruford, Will Calhoun, Terri Lyne New Breed. And it’s smart to have experience playing a brass snare drum, a Carrington, Matt Chamberlain, Jeff Davis, Peter Erskine, Daniel Glass, Benny thin jazz ride cymbal, or even a single-headed kit fi tted with Pinstripe heads. Greb, Matt Halpern, Horacio Hernandez, Gerald Heyward, Taku Hirano, Susie But it’s even smarter to realize that no matter how much you understand Ibarra, Jim Keltner, Paul Leim, Peter Magadini, George Marsh, Pat Mastelotto, how those books and records and pieces of gear fi t into the history and Allison Miller, Rod Morgenstein, Andy Newmark, Stephen Perkins, Dafnis evolution of our instrument, we are all unique individuals by both nature Prieto, Rich Redmond, Brian Reitzell, Jim Riley, Antonio Sanchez, Gil Sharone, and nurture, and there’s only so much we can do to force ourselves to play a Chad Smith, Steve Smith, Todd Sucherman, Billy Ward, Kenny Washington, Dave Weckl, Paul Wertico certain way, regardless of our reasons for wanting to. In the drumming world, there’s perhaps no more famous example of this idea than the story of Rush drummer Neil Peart’s early desire to play like his CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: SUBSCRIPTIONS: Patrick Berkery, Stephen Bidwell, U.S. $29.95, Canada $33.95, hero, Keith Moon. The thought seems almost absurd now—could two drum David Ciauro, John Colpitts, Bob Girouard, other international $44.95 stylists be further apart? But as a young player in the ’60s and ’70s, Neil was Mike Haid, John Martinez, Ben Meyer, per year. For two-year doing exactly what one would expect him to: working to get close to the Ken Micallef, Jeff Potter, Will Romano, subscription prices go to www. Bernie Schallehn, Ilya Stemkovsky, Robin moderndrummer.com. secret of the most exciting player of his generation. Fortunately, Neil came Tolleson, Lauren Vogel Weiss, Paul Wells. 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