The Greatest Drummers of All Time

Earl Young

This guy was in a few bands, did a couple of Blue Note Recordings, backed some big acts, but his greatest contribution was… Inventing disco. Earl Young was the first drummer to kick on all 4 beats of a measure and improvise over it and brought it to dance halls. Drummers started catching on and eventually, one of the greatest revolutions in house music began. As long as Earl Young is still alive, disco will never die.

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The More You Know

  • Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury supposedly had a falling out because Michael brought his pet llama to the recording studio.
  • Layne Staley asked Jerry Cantrell to play in a funk band and agreed to sing in Cantrell’s band in exchange. The funk band didn’t last but Cantrell’s band became Alice in Chains.
  • Chuck Berry, the Godfather of Rock ‘n’ Roll, originally only performed music to buy photography equipment to support his aspirations of becoming a professional photographer.
  • In 1969, the founder and the original leader of the Rolling Stones (Brian Jones) got kicked out of the band and then died less than a month later.
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