"I don't like totally free jazz, unless it's done by somebody like Coltrane, who did bebop and cool j..." — John Densmore

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.

When I do a press roll, I use the traditional grip. Sometimes I flip it around; for a louder crack on the two and four, I use the new grip.

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.