Drumming For Fanatics

By EMP Published August 6, 2009

Enter Music Publishing, Inc. publishes drummagazine.com, DRUM! magazine, How To Play Drums, and formerly TRAPS magazine.

Our mission is to be the best source of drumming news and info on this planet and others as they become populated.

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Enter Music Publishing, Inc. 95 South Market Street, Suite 430, San Jose, CA 95113-2312. Tel: +1 408-971-9794. Fax: +1 408-971-0382.

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DRUM! is distributed by Rider Circulation Services, +1-323-344-1200 x237. Web: Rider.

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DRUM! Facts

Started: 1991
First Cover Artist: Joe Franco and Charlie Benante
Pages to Date: 14,028
Issues To Date: 159 as of September, 2009
Artist(s) with the most covers: Neil Peart (4) Travis Barker (4), Chad Smith (4)
Web site: http://www.drummagazine.com
Employees, interns and associates: +/-14
Alumni: Don Zulaica, Billy Ramirez, Scott Locklear, Sabrina Crawford, Arline Hernandez, Scott Landucci, Leigh Hartley, Eric Kamm, Dick Doerschuk, Kristine Ekstrand, Lalaine Gagni, Mauricio Rams, Charles Murphy, Greg Dawson, Steve Barry

DRUM! - Our History

Enter Music was formed by Andy Doerschuk, Connie Hood and Phil Hood in 1991 with a simple idea in mind: Reach as many young drummers as possible and help them achieve their musical goals. The first issue of DRUM!, an oversized tabloid featuring studio legend Joe Franco and Anthrax’s Charlie Benante on the cover, came out in September of that year. It was a free magazine, given away in West Coast music and record shops.

Though a free drumming mag was a first, it wasn’t profitable when we tried to expand it beyond California. Eventually, DRUM! became a glossy and shrunk to today’s svelte 8 1/8” x 10 3/4” size.

Prior to starting DRUM! Andy had played with the Naughty Sweeties, Billy Vera and other bands in Los Angeles. In the ‘80s and ‘90s he performed or recorded with a who’s who of music royalty from Chet Atkins to Leslie West to blues stars like Debbie Davies and Tommy Castro. He continues to perform occasionally with blues artists in northern California.

While working at Guitar Player Publications (now New Bay Media, http://www.musicplayer.com) Andy and Phil first teamed to produce Drums & Drumming, a magazine that Andy started. In its too-brief existence, Drums & Drumming won kudos for its design and approach to stories. But it went down in flames in 1991, when the company’s new owners, closed it in a round of cost cutting. But the experience there was invaluable. Andy was the editor of dozens of books and also the launch editor of Bass Player magazine. Phil formerly was the editor of Frets and also the original publisher of EQ magazine.

After the bloody demise of Drums & Drumming (a saga we’ll tell another time), DRUM! was born less than a year later.

PLACES

For those who care, DRUM! started out in a one-room office in the old Bank of America building in downtown San Jose. Then in 1993 we moved to Lincoln Avenue in the leafy Willow Glen neighborhood of San Jose. That was home for five years. From 1998 to 2006 our little firm was based in an old cannery building in the Japantown (http://www.japantownsanjose.org) section of San Jose. The food was great but when the landlord could not accommodate our growth we moved to our current location on Market Street in San Jose. It’s basically a block from where we started. Either, we’ve returned to our roots, or we haven’t gone very far.

FIRST MOVER: A QUICK HISTORY OF DRUM! AND ENTER MUSIC, INC.

1992 First magazine to publish a cover story on Chad Smith.
1993 DRUM! stages the world’s first all-electronic percussion expo in Los Angeles.
1993 First special issue on electronic percussion.
1993 Moved to Lincoln Avenue in the Willow Glen section of San Jose.
1994 First drumming magazine online (AOL)
1995 First drumming magazine to cover Carter Beauford
1995 First drumming magazine with a special issue on hand drumming.
1996 The Drummie Awards are launched.
1996: DRUM! introduces Stark Raving Brad, to the consternation of bluenoses everywhere.
1996 First cover story on Taylor Hawkins.
1998 Believe it or not, DRUM! publishes the world’s first Mitch Mitchell cover story.
1998 50th Issue. Moved to North Ninth Street in Japantown.
1999 First special issue on female drummers (what took us so long?).
1999: First magazine to write about the amazing John Otto.
2000: DRUM’s February issue is available with four different covers celebrating artists of the past decade.
2000: First drumming magazine to put Travis Barker on its cover.
2001: Best selling issue of the year: How to Play Fast.
2002: Special Issue on Recording is a first for the drumming magazine business.
2003 Stick It! Magazine expires and DRUM! takes over the subscriber list.
2004 DRUM! puts a career board game in the magazine.
2005 DRUM! introduces Collector Cards.
2005 DRUM! runs a poster in nearly every issue.
2006 Launch of TRAPS, a uniquely different jazz and classic rock drumming magazine for pros, baby boomers, and anyone with a serious interest in the history of the instrument. Moved downtown on Market Street.
2006 Launch of HOW TO PLAY DRUMS, a magazine/dvd for intermediate players
2007 Launch of short-lived first digital edition of a drumming magazine called DRUM! DIGITAL (drum.idgitaledition.com)
2008 Redesign of DRUM!

We Salute DRUM! ALUMNI

Steve Barry Great drummer and former intern who also worked in our production department.
Jared Cobb Part Hemingway, part film auteur, Jared was once our associate editor and still writes features for DRUM! and TRAPS.
Kevin Coggins The Cogginator is a solid drummer, equally great teacher, and a music book author as well.
Sabrina Crawford Sabrina Crawford is a great writer who produced some of our best cover stories.
Greg Dawson Intern who helped write Drumpedia.
Robin DeNeve Former circulation assistant.
Dick Doerschuk Andy’s Dad, a former band arranger for the BBC, was our classified ads clerk in his retirement. Rest in peace and keep swinging, Dick.
Dave Dumas Dave sold ads in the early days. By the way, he’s still a killer vocalist/keyboardist if you need a hand.
Rick Eberly Illustrator par excellence, Rick still creates the unique drum diagrams in our mags.
Darryl EckeThe Bird Man of California, Darryl was part of a great ad team in the Nineties.
Kristine Ekstrand Company co-founder and former art director, Kristine’s work still shows up in the magazine from time to time.
Lalaine Gagni Great designer who helped DRUM! in a major growth period from 2004 to 2005.
Leslie Hampton A great punk spirit who is also a guitarist, drummer, designer and photographer.
Leigh Hartley Sales queen of the Nineties who helped DRUM! grow.
Arline Hernandez Wonderful circulation assistant who worked here for a decade.
Scott Landucci Another good drummer and former office assistant.
Scott Locklear A former managing editor whose spirit of perfection and humor still infects the place.
Josh Moscov Original intern when DRUM! started. Still writes PR copy for us.
Tanya Ortega Former assistant art director and a great person.
Billy Ramirez Former assistant editor and another great drummer.
Mauricio "My Buck" Rams Outstanding former art director and office tequila instructor!
Juliet Schiebold Great rocker personality and account payable person.
Clarence Yung Brilliant fomer art director and developer of the web site.
Don Zulaica Former managing editor and photo caption genius.

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