Soundcheck ®: Beating the Drummer Stereotype

Soundcheck ®

Beating the Drummer Stereotype

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Rush drummer Neil Peart and his elaborate drum kit.

Led Zeppelin's late drummer John Bonham was notorious for his booze intake and fist fights. The Who's Keith Moon once drove a Rolls Royce into a swimming pool. But drummers can also be the steady foundation of any band. Today, a debate on whether drummers deserve all that bashing. Also: the incredible story of Priscilla, a talented 9 year-old rapper, as told in the new documentary P-Star Rising.

Drummers: Heart of the Band...Or Butt of the Joke?

The drum kit has its fair share of esteemed idols: Neil Peart of Rush, Dave Grohl of Nirvana, ?uestlove of the Roots and many more. Yet drummers have always had a reputation for being unreliable and misanthropic. On today’s Soundcheck Smackdown, we debate whether the skin-bashers of the world deserve ...

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P-Star Rising

When she was nine years old, Priscilla Star Diaz became P-Star. At night, she rapped in lower Manhattan nightclubs. During the day, she napped in the one-room shelter in Harlem she shared with her father and sister while longing for her crack-addicted mother. Filmmaker Gabriel Noble followed her dreams and ...

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