Machines of Death -- The Complete Interviews

May 11,2012
The following are the raw, unedited transcripts from Bryan Beller's interviews with Derek Boyer, Steve DiGiorgio, and Jeroen Paul Thesseling for the article Machines of Death (May 2012).DEREK BOYER (Suffocation) What is the More...

Flea Association

Oct 13,2011
If you were to imagine Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to be a passionate, intense, high-energy dynamo of a person, you’d be right—to a point. Of course, as anyone who has seen him on stage can attest, the man plays with the More...

My Morning Jacket's Tom Blankenship

Oct 13,2011
“I’m not really of note as a bass player,” says humble Tom Blankenship. He may not be the most technically advanced bassist, but Blankenship’s balance of aggressiveness and delicacy works perfectly for My Morning Jacket’s More...

John B. Williams : Basement Dwelling

Jun 1,2011
IN A CAREER THAT SPANS MORE THAN 40 years, John B. Williams has performed with some the world’s most renowned jazz artists—Nancy Wilson, Horace Silver, Count Basie, Louie Bellson, Billy Cobham, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis More...

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Kunle Justice, Afrobeat Goes On

Jun 1,2011
BACK IN 1991, WHEN KUNLE JUSTICE first met Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the godfather of Nigerian Afrobeat hadn’t been in a recording studio in more than two years—but at age 52, he felt he still had plenty left to say. “The More...

Lee Rocker’s Cover Charge

May 1,2011
SITTING TEN FEET IN FRONT OF Lee Rocker’s quartet at New York City’s Rockwood Music Hall is like sitting on the hood of a ’59 Caddy revving its engine as it roars down Route 66. The 50-year-old slap savant’s rare More...

Bill Wyman on Making The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St.

Aug 24,2010
By Elliot Stephen Cohen “That the album ever came out at all was a complete miracle,” marvels Bill Wyman of the 1972 landmark Rolling Stones album Exile On Main St. Though critics initially overlooked the band’s provocative blend More...

Nick Movshon & Jeremy Wilms on the Fela Feel

Apr 1,2010
During the first act of Fela!, the Broadway hit about legendary Nigerian musician/activist Fela Kuti, the Fela character addresses the audience while building a groove. After various percussion and guitar parts are added, he asks More...

The New Golden Age Of Metal, The Complete Interviews

Mar 9,2010
By Bryan BellerYes, there really is a cartoon character on the cover of the April 2010 issue of Bass Player. But that’s no ordinary animated dude; it’s William Murderface of the quantruple- platinum, über-brutal metal band More...

William Murderface Of Dethklok

Mar 9,2010
It took Bass Player nearly 100 calls to various publicists, a very large bag of money, and several body-cavity searches (performed by Dethklok’s private security force, the Klokateers) in order to secure an interview with bassist More...

Steve DiGiorgio, Extreme Metal Session Ace

Mar 9,2010
Interview conducted and edited by Bryan BellerInterview original transcription by Joseph ArrudaPhoto by Colin DavisWhere are you from, where did you grow up, and where did you go to school?I'm pretty much a California boy. I mean More...

Sharlee D’angelo of Arch Enemy

Mar 9,2010
Interview conducted and edited by Bryan BellerInterview original transcription by Katie Garibaldi(Note: part of the original interview was lost due to recorder failure; select quotes were manually restored to the print version of More...

Ryan Martinie of Mudvayne

Mar 9,2010
Interview conducted and edited by Bryan BellerInterview original transcription by Johan WestmanPhoto by Tracy Ketcher[Ryan Martinie launches into interview unprompted, from introductory casual conversation...]I think that it's More...

Nate Newton of Converge

Mar 9,2010
Interview conducted and edited by Bryan BellerInterview original transcription by Massie KitagawaCan you talk about metalcore then and now, and the whole hardcore punk-and-metal, for lack of a better pun, convergence? What's your More...

Liam Wilson of The Dillinger Escape Plan

Mar 9,2010
Interview conducted and edited by Bryan BellerInterview original transcription by Kira SmallPhoto by Cari VeachWhat metal genre would you call Dillinger, and this album in particular? And how does that impact your bass playing, More...

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