PAISTE NOISE WORKS • FILTER • SPOTLIGHT ON REMO JJIMMYIMMY EEATAT WWORLDORLD’’SS ZACHZACH LINDLIND TTHOMASHOMAS LLANGANG EEUROPEANUROPEAN WWONDERONDER MMICKEYICKEY RROKEROKER DDIZZYIZZY,, EELLALLA,, BBAGSAGS && BBEYONDEYOND RRAYMONDAYMOND HHERRERAERRERA KKUSHUSH--YY PPADAD RREMEMBERINGEMEMBERING GGARYARY CCHESTERHESTER DDRUMMINGRUMMING FFOROR DDUOSUOS WWHITEHITE SSTRIPESTRIPES,, LLOCALOCAL H,H, JJUCIFERUCIFE, && MMOREORE!! $4.99US $6.99CAN 11 0 74808 01203 9 ContentsContents Volume 26, Number 11 Cover photo by Jay Blakesberg, inset photo by Heinz Kronberger 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. g g by Waleed Rashidi r r e e b b s s e e k k a a l l B B y y a a 54 J J UPDATE 24 Filter’s Steven Gillis THOMAS LANG 66 Robbie Williams and Geri Halliwell just need a simple- Warlord’s Mark Zonder minded 4/4 guy on the traps, right? Um…wrong—way wrong. If his performance at MD’s 2002 Drum Festival Mad At Gravity’s Jake Fowler was any indication, you might want to start looking for Days Of The New’s Ray Rizzo the most progressive drum antics on earth to come from the pop world. Johnny Mathis’s Joe Lizama by T. Bruce Wittet “Organic” Drummer Danny Frankel WOODSHED 128 MICKEY ROKER 82 Kush’s Ray Herrera From Count Basie, to Ella Fitzgerald, to Sonny Rollins, Just because Fear Factory has broken up doesn’t mean to Herbie Hancock, to Dizzie Gillespie, to—oh, you get their great rehearsal space had to go unused. FF’s mas- the idea. Mickey Roker is jazz history incarnate, and he ter blaster, Ray Herrera, now holds sway at The ain’t slowing down any time soon. Downtown Rehearsal—with some new buds. by Mike DeSimone by Will Romano FROM THE PAST 138 Gary Chester As a player, but just as importantly as a teacher, DRUMMING FOR Gary Chester helped further the drumming of some of our most legendary players. THE NEW DUOS 154 by Hal B. Selzer 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: IN MEMORIAM 146 White Stripes, Local H, Jucifer, and Cash Audio. Motown Master by Jim DeRogatis Richard “Pistol” Allen, Paiste Director Toomas Paiste by Rick Van Horn MD GIVEAWAY 104 Win A Custom Drumkit From Spaun Drums, Along With A Set Of Handmade Turkish Cymbals! Education 62 OFF THE RECORD 102 ROCK CHARTS 126 FIRST PERSON Jimmy Eat World’s Zach Lind Default’s Danny Craig: The Audition by Ed Breckenfeld “Wasting My Time” by Ed Wahba by Joe Bergamini 94 ROCK ’N’ JAZZ CLINIC 130 TEACHERS’ FORUM One-Of-A-Kind Patterns: 106 HEALTH & SCIENCE The Recording Teacher: Unusual Exercises Can Martial Arts For Using Technology To Enhance Stretch Your Technique Today’s Drummer, Part 2: The Teaching Process by Rod Morgenstein Motion, Power, And Flow by Dan Garvin by Dave Fusco 98 THE MUSICAL DRUMMER Understanding The Language 124 ENCORE Of Music, Part 14: Blondie: Eat To The Beat Chord Progressions 101 by Adam Budofsky by Ron Spagnardi Departments Page 162 8AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW 18 IT’S QUESTIONABLE 172 DRUM MARKET Into The Woods Including Vintage Showcase by Rick Van Horn 144 ON THE MOVE 176 DRUMKIT OF THE MONTH 10 READERS’ PLATFORM 162 CRITIQUE 14 ASK A PRO 166 BACKBEATS Larry Mullen Jr., Richie Hayward, New Orleans JazzFest 2002, and Phil Collins Page 37 International Custom & Vintage Drum Show, and more Equipment 32 NEW AND NOTABLE Summer NAMM 2002! 42 PRODUCT CLOSE-UP Sonor Force 1001 Studio Drumkit by Mike Haid 44 Pacific Snare Drums 116 SHOP TALK by Martin Patmos Building Your Own Drumset, Part 4: Drilling And Assembly 46 Paiste Noise Works Cymbals by Paul Bielewicz by T. Bruce Wittet 136 COLLECTORS’ CORNER 48 Sonor Giant Step Bass Drum Pedals The Rogers Dyna-Sonic by Mike Haid Snare Drum Revisited by Harry Cangany 49 Quick Looks: Protection Racket Drum And Cymbal Bags Removing Tension-Rod Rust by Martin Patmos by Ned Ingberman 51 Quick Looks: 148 SPOTLIGHT Page 48 Paiste Innovations Cymbals Remo: Heads And Beyond by Mike Haid and T. Bruce Wittet by Rick Van Horn AN EDITOR’S OVERVIEW Volume 26, Number 11 The World’s Most Widely Read Drum Magazine EDITOR/PUBLISHER RONALD SPAGNARDI CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER ISABEL SPAGNARDI ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER TRACY A. KEARNS SENIOR EDITOR RICK VAN HORN EDITORIAL DIRECTOR WILLIAM F. MILLER MANAGING EDITOR ADAM J. BUDOFSKY EDITORIAL ASSISTANT SUZANNE HURRING SENIOR ART DIRECTOR SCOTT G. BIENSTOCK ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR MICHELE M. NEWHOUSE ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR JOSEPH KING ADVERTISING DIRECTOR BOB BERENSON ADVERTISING ASSISTANT JOAN C. STICKEL EDITOR/ADVERTISING ASSOCIATE BILLY AMENDOLA MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DIANA LITTLE WEB SITE DIRECTOR KEVIN W. KEARNS Into The Woods OFFICE ASSISTANT ROSLYN MADIA y the time you read this, summer will be over, and tempera- MODERN DRUMMER ADVISORY BOARD: Henry Adler, Btures may be cooling off where you are. But as I write it, New Kenny Aronoff, Eddie Bayers, Louie Bellson, Bill Bruford, Harry Cangany, Jim Chapin, Dennis DeLucia, Les DeMerle, Len Jersey is sweltering under a mid-summer heat wave. Normally DiMuzio, Charlie Donnelly, Peter Erskine, Vic Firth, Bob Gatzen, that wouldn’t be a subject for an MD editorial. But it just so hap- Danny Gottlieb, Sonny Igoe, Jim Keltner, Paul Leim, Peter Magadini, George Marsh, Joe Morello, Rod Morgenstein, Andy pens that for the first time in many years, I’m doing an outdoor Newmark, Neil Peart, Ed Shaughnessy, Steve Smith, Ed gig. And I’m learning all over again what that entails. Thigpen, Billy Ward, Dave Weckl, Paul Wertico. I’m playing drums and percussion for a production of Steven CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Michael Bettine, Robyn Flans, Burt Korall, Rick Mattingly, Ken Micallef, Mark Parsons, Mike Sondheim’s Into The Woods. Appropriately, the show is being Haid, Robin Tolleson, Lauren Vogel Weiss, T. Bruce Wittet. presented in the woods—on an outdoor stage in a local county MODERN DRUMMER magazine (ISSN 0194-4533) is pub- lished monthly by MODERN DRUMMER Publications, Inc., park. Our “orchestra pit” is actually a concrete slab in front of the 12 Old Bridge Road, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009. PERIODICALS elevated stage. We’re in full view of the audience—and in full MAIL POSTAGE paid at Cedar Grove, NJ 07009 and at addi- tional mailing offices. Copyright 2002 by MODERN DRUM- contact with the elements. MER Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. 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MEMBER: Magazine Publishers Of America, National Association Of Music Merchants, American Music Conference, Percussive Arts Society, Music Educators National Conference, Percussion Marketing Council, Music Magazine Publishers Association MODERN DRUMMER ONLINE: www.moderndrummer.com PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES 8 Modern Drummer November 2002 READERS’ PLATFORM MIKE MALININ TIPBOOK REVIEW Thanks a lot for Thanks for the kind words regarding answers to questions they might be embar- your August cover Tipbook: Drums in your August Critique rassed to ask this late in their careers. story on Mike department. It is true, as the reviewer Upon reading a copy of Tipbook: Drums, Malinin.