Reply To: Hanging Out with Drumming Legends Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson

[peter]

On jude77 said

That’s impressive!  The most “famous” musician I’ve ever been around any length of time was Alex Chilton, lead singer for the Boxtops (“Gimme a ticket for an aeorplane . . .”) and later key member of world’s most unknown influential band, Big Star.

That’s cool!

Famous musicians I’ve met include Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson, Carole King, I sort of met Neil Finn when I saved his life back in the 90s (true story, details down the road), Billy Cobham, Jimmy Chamberlin (he came up to me at one of his shows and told me that I was one of his favorite drummers…”on the Chicago scene”), Louise Post (Veruca Salt; she spent three weeks tyring to persuade me to meet with Veruca Salt to play drums on their first US national tour), Peter Himmelman, Dan Wilson (songwriter and lead singer from Semisonic) and Jack DeJohnette (excellent jazz drummer).

I have friends who’ve played in bands that have had success, including my first private drum teacher, but they personally aren’t famous and ended up in careers other than music.

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