EDIT PICK
BEST DRUMMER
James Bowersox
With bands, it’s always the same sad tale: the lead singer gets all
the credit. And the groupies. While the drummer—although he basically
lays the foundation, sets the tone, creates the beat for the rest of
the band to follow HIS lead—he gets a face-full of cymbals and skins,
and no public respect. We know of a prominent music journalist who,
when interviewing stoic band members, would start with the lowly
drummer and get him to open up since nobody EVER talks to the drummer.
This, in turn, would entice the rest of the attention-hungry band mates
to chime in, and then the journalist would use their quotes and leave
out everything the drummer had said. Anyway, local skin-thrasher James
Bowersox is one of the most ambitious drummers we know on island,
playing in no less than four bands in the past year, often
simultaneously (well, not on the same night but you get the idea): The
Easy, Byron Brown and the Deriliks, Gorilla Jazz and Anuhea & Friends. (SC)
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