The ever-erudite drummer announced his retirement from professional performance in 2009, and nearly a decade on, he has no regrets.
“I’ve done my fair bit of touring,” he says. “41 years, give or take – and I have less than zero interest in doing all that again. Last time I looked, retired meant, well, retired.”
However, he hasn’t been idly twiddling those impeccably nimble thumbs in the meantime.
“I like to contribute,” he says, and as we’ll later discover, he’s not above writing the odd bit of music for famous friends, “but I retired 10 years ago and acquired a doctorate in musicology. I’m now an author working mostly in music-related academia.”
His latest book, Uncharted: Creativity And The Expert Drummer, is published by the University of Michigan Press. “I…
