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In Part 1 of Drummers Past, I went all the way back to the beginning of my lifelong love affair with drums and drumming. The idea was to compile a listing of as many of the drummers I could remember playing with and/or meeting since the drum bug hit me back in 1963. We […]
After reading Mark Volman’s biography (Happy Forever … as chronicled in two parts – FTV: The Turtles 3-4-26 and Flo & Eddie 4-1-26 (it wasn’t a typical autobiography as 90 percent of it was contributed by his colleagues, friends, and family)), I was inspired to take a ‘wayback machine’ trip to examine my encounters […]
When Guitar World Editor-in-Chief Damian Fanelli got an email inquiring if his magazine would be interested in doing an interview with legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, he wasn’t about to say ‘no’. In his Woodshed column from GW Vol 47, NO. 5. (May 2026), he noted how many times Keef’s name and/or image […]
When the March 2026 Equinox edition of The Planetary Report (Vol. 46, No. 01) landed in my mail box, the cover image of Comet 67P/Churyumov – Gerasimenko didn’t give a hint as to the major announcement that was waiting on page 4. The image was taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft in […]