Great Session Players – Hal Blaine 1967
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 foil, they buried their music in a mix of motor oil and sand. They produced an album, a “concept” album called [...]
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 guy who marches behind the raconteur, pounding out the rhythms that accompany the news and stories of the day. If Paul [...]