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Great Session Players: Hal Blaine 1961-1963
If I were to characterize each of the four drummers I’ve profiled so far, I’d start by portraying Steve Gadd as the street-corner griot. In the tradition of the village story-teller, Gadd is the
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As much as I enjoyed listening and learning and sharing the genius of Hal Blaine through his Top 10 records of the 1960′s, none of them had the significance in my life as these
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Ah, 1969. Deep in the heart of being seven years old, oblivious to the struggles of love, money or power, scratching out 6′s and 7′s on that green paper with the really WIDE lines,
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Richard Harris “ MacArthur Park (#5) According to Paul Zollo’s interview with Jimmy Webb (in the book “Songwriters on Songwriting”), MacArthur Park was invented in Bones Howe’s head. Howe asked Webb to write something
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In 1966, the world’s greatest pop band, The Beach Boys, forever changed rock and roll. Instead of giving the world another gilded album of musical chocolates, each song individually wrapped in ocean colored tin
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