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Tomas Haake Q&A At 2011 NAMM Show

When we bum-rushed Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake and his girlfriend at the Sabian Party at the Anaheim Hilton during the NAMM show, we thought the imposing Swede might pulverize us as bad as he does those double bass drums. Turns out the guy’s a big teddy bear and was more than happy to let us grill him on the band’s as-yet-untitled album, slated for release this fall.

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Q&A With Clutch Drummer JP Gaster

DRUMmagazine.com members asked for it in the Forum For Fanatics, and we listened to them. Here is a brand new interview with JP Gaster – a DRUMmagazine.com exclusive, just for our buds.

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Brian Tichy And His All-Star Tribute To Bonzo

After rocking out with the likes of Billy Idol, Foreigner, Ozzy Osbourne, and currently Whitesnake, drummer Brian Tichy came up with a brilliant idea last summer. He felt it was time to pay some true respect to the god of all rock drummers, John Henry Bonham, in a tribute concert to end all other tribute concerts.

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Scott Preece of GBH: Still Kicking Punk Ass

Scott Preece has been holding down the drum chair for 18 of GBH's 30-year run. Roaring out of Birmingham when punk was still relatively young, GBH is a band that has stayed close to is vision, pumping out powerful, incisive, short, sharp tunes that have never lacked for an audience. We caught up with Scott on the Warped Tour earlier this summer.

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Armand Majidi Of Sick Of It All

With a career spanning more than two decades and hundreds of thousands of albums sold worldwide, Sick Of It All certainly deserves being labeled a living legend and proof that classic New York hardcore is alive and kicking. The group released its vicious new offering, Based On A True Story, last April through Century Media Records, and drummer Armand Majidi tells us how it all went down in the studio.

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Doug Jones Of Taddy Porter — Back To Big Rock

Taddy Porter was formed in October 2007 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. The bandmembers grew up in different towns, but came together to create timeless, undeniable rock songs that where seeded, take root almost immediately. As the band began pushing borders beyond Oklahoma City, audiences grew like wildfire in markets like Dallas, Austin, Montgomery, Wichita. Before the quartet released its first album on June 29, drummer Doug Jones said, “Two and a half years of hard work are finally culminating into the biggest day of our lives. It’s at the point where we want to relax, but we know we can't stop now and we are ready to work hard to get this album out to as many ears as we can. We are very thankful to have the team we do and can't describe the excitement that comes with this album.”

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Stephen Morris: Joy Division To Bad Lieutenant

One of the most influential musicians of punk-rock history, Stephen Morris was first recognized in the late 1970s when he became a founding member and drummer for the band Joy Division.

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Phil Rudd Discusses His Return To AC/DC

We could bleed your ears with needless adjectives and pusillanimous pontification, in a feeble attempt to describe the stone grooves of AC/DC’s Phil Rudd. Seriously, what else needs to be said, other than:

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Ryan Yerdon: Puddle Of Mudd’s New Drummer

Ryan Yerdon knows how to count his blessings. After enduring a cattle-call audition, he scored the coveted drum chair with Puddle Of Mudd. and toured extensively to support the band’s 2007 release Famous, which featured the drumming prowess of Kenny Aronoff, Josh Freese, and Abe Laboriel Jr. Yerdon finally got the chance to cut his own tracks on POM’s latest release Volume 4: Songs In The Key Of Love & Hate. We caught up with him as he once again toured the globe, and talked our ears off about surviving auditions and laying tracks.