Chad Wackerman: Difference between revisions
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==[[A Different View (Modern Drummer 1996)]]== | ==[[A Different View (Modern Drummer 1996)]]== | ||
RF: What comes to mind when I say Chad Wackerman? | |||
AH: Precision engineering. Highly polished, detailed, and clear. It's just great, the combination of his ability to fly around with chops, combined with not just going potty all the time. I've been a lucky guy. | |||
AH: I only started working with other drummers in my own band after I made a decision to move to the States, which was around 1981. | AH: I only started working with other drummers in my own band after I made a decision to move to the States, which was around 1981. | ||
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RF: What was it you liked? | RF: What was it you liked? | ||
AH: It was organic again. There was a connection. To me, half of music is hard work and the other half is some kind of magic. I felt that when I did things, Chad was there—he heard everything. When we did eventually start playing the music together, I knew his interpretation of the tunes would obviously be different from Gary's. But I also knew they would come out sounding good. I try to give the players I work with the freedom to be themselves. That's something I learned when I was playing with Tony Williams. A lot of the time, he wouldn't give me any direction. After a while I realized that was really good for me; I had to contribute something without being told what to do. I always like to do that with the guys I work with now. | AH: It was organic again. There was a connection. To me, half of music is hard work and the other half is some kind of magic. I felt that when I did things, Chad was there—he heard everything. When we did eventually start playing the music together, I knew his interpretation of the tunes would obviously be different from Gary's. But I also knew they would come out sounding good. I try to give the players I work with the freedom to be themselves. That's something I learned when I was playing with Tony Williams. A lot of the time, he wouldn't give me any direction. After a while I realized that was really good for me; I had to contribute something without being told what to do. I always like to do that with the guys I work with now. | ||
==[[Allan Holdsworth interview (Music Maker 2003)]]== | ==[[Allan Holdsworth interview (Music Maker 2003)]]== | ||
