In Tribute To A Tribute: Reflections On The Modern Drummer Festival 2020
This past Saturday, September 12 saw the return of one of drumming’s great events: The Modern Drummer Festival. Not held since 2011, this year’s Festival marked the 20th in its iconic history. Of course, given the nature of the times, the 2020 Festival couldn’t be...
Jack Edwards of Piston: Living Proof That Rock ‘n’ Roll (AND Guitar Dreams) Can Indeed Come True.
The perfect rock ‘n’ roll fantasy movie script would read something like this: In 2006, a cool British mom who has raised her and her husband’s 11-year-old son on classic rock, takes her son to his first concert to see The Cult. The boy is completely blown...
A Quality Friend
My brother and I formed a two-person band when I was fifteen years old. We almost sounded like three people so at the time that was good enough for us. We cut our teeth playing local bars and youth centers for a few years before he and my parents surprised me with a...
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