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“It had a swing that can’t be duplicated”: Ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Josh Freese says nobody can play like Steven Adler
Plus: “I don't have anything bad to say about Axl!"
“It was all done on GarageBand – it’s live drums, but over this goofy funk drum loop I’d done on my laptop out on tour”
“It’s in a bit of a DIY fashion"
“People said, ‘Hey, I saw you’re on that Avril Lavigne record.’ I went, ‘Nah!'”: The drummer who’s played on 400 albums
"I knocked out four or five songs in an evening"
“Tim wasn’t feeling good, and then Jeff said something derogatory, and Tim just punched him in the face!”
An eye-witness account from drummer Carmine Appice
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“I got a hacksaw, chopped down the stand and put the hi-hats down there”: How Simon Phillips learned to play left-handed
"It was all disco in 1975 – pretty simple"
“You’d go round the house and Johnny would play some riff in his jimmy-jams”: Mike Joyce remembers the early days of The Smiths
His memoir, The Drums, is out this week
“I said, ‘Oh, man, we’re gonna kick some ass on a Pink Floyd record!’": The drummer who substituted for Nick Mason
Carmine Appice says that Mason's drumming sounds like hitting a pillow
“I didn't replace Keith Moon – I replaced Kenney Jones!”: When Simon Phillips became The Who's third great drummer
“I saw The Who live with Kenney – and he was absolutely fantastic"
