1971 Stray; Suicide Gadd's first real studio playing where is could lay it down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1SRGEuq99g I think the Steve Gadd in the above is a different Steve Gadd to the one all drummers know, though it's an easy mistake to make. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_(band) ...

You can read an interview about that very thing here:

http://www.mikedolbear.com/story.asp?StoryID=3052

I only took one two hour lesson from Gary, but it was very instructive. When talking about book 3, the Time Functioning one, he basically said, learn the 4 most common eighth/sixteenth note ostinatios and then pick 4 of the more unusual ones and learn them. He was also more interested in stickings a...

bstocky wrote:Also Gavin switched to Tama pedals. I'd be interested in his thoughts on the switch because Gavin always has logical reasons for doing things.

I was at the clinic in Dublin and he said the reason for the change was more volume for less effort, simple as that!