Hi, Taylor here…
Hope that you are all keeping safe and well out there.
As I take over this issue of Rhythm and invite a bunch of my favourite drummers – including Matt Cameron, Phil Gould, Ty Segall, Rufus Taylor, Stewart Copeland, Stephen Perkins, Danny Goffey, Dean Butterworth and Roger Taylor – to join me, it’s funny to look back and think that I originally wanted to play guitar… I persevered with the strings for a while, but it just wasn’t happening, and it was my next-door neighbour in Laguna Beach, California – Kent Kleater, a musician himself – that suggested I try drums. He showed me how to do a simple rock beat – ‘one’, ‘two’, ‘three’, ‘four’ on the kick, hi-hats and snare – and as I sat…