Beat This! My Ten Favourite Drummers…

As a kid, I had so much rhythm bursting out of my soul that I would play on anything, with anything. I would tap on school desks with pens, then click my teeth together as I walked home. In the lounge, I would line up cushions on the sofa and hit them with wooden spoonsContinue reading “Beat This! My Ten Favourite Drummers…”

England, 1967 – Jimi Hendrix had good reasons to smile…

The American guitarist had made it big in the UK and was already causing psychedelic earthquakes back home; it must have seemed like all his dreams were coming true. I was so glad to find this footage on youtube recently which captures him in the first flush of fame at his irrepressible best. The mostContinue reading “England, 1967 – Jimi Hendrix had good reasons to smile…”