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| | Mickey Hart and Jay Stevens, Drumming at the Edge of Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | As I write this I'm listening to Mickey Hart and Planet Drums' Supralingua, letting the groove carry me to the Edge; feeding on the inspiration that was just one of the things Hart hoped to convey with his book. |
 | | Noisemaker Hart then takes the reader on a journey through slit gongs -- (think Tarzan-style movies from the '30s: "That infernal drumming is driving me mad, Higby!") -- tars and damarus, congas and drone pipes, trap sets and kettle drums. |
 | | Invariably, Hart also talks about some of the great drummers of the 20th century -- America's own Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Chick Webb, India's Alla Rakha and Zakir Rakha, Nubia's Hamza el Din -- and the work each has done to carry drumming to another level, or, as Hart puts it, to The Edge. |
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