"When I do a press roll, I use the traditional grip. Sometimes I flip it around; for a louder crack o..." — John Densmore

I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool jazz, so he was allowed to go out there.

You know, another jazz drummer, Ed Thigpen, who played with Oscar Peterson way back - it was the first time I ever heard rivets in a cymbal. And then I heard that Chico Hamilton had them too, and I went, 'Oh, that's it. I'm taking that for my sound.' And it worked well on 'Riders On The Storm,' so that's one thing.

Well, I've discovered that I really like writing, and I feel that I'm good at it.

If you surrender to the communal vision, sometimes, certainly in our case, you become more than the sum of your parts.