Seeing live music is an integral part of the way we internalize the process of playing music.
Writing for McCoy was great. You could be the saddest arranger in the world. . . you could write nothing, but when he plays it, it sounds great!
They say it ain’t like it used to be, well . . . when was it like it used to be? It never was like it used to be!
Back then, we sold up to 30 pairs of sticks a month, which was a big deal. We now do 80,000 sticks per day. So we’ve graduated from the minor leagues.
It was thanks to a brass player that I got the gig with Weather Report.
