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Which Bands Should Fire Their Drummer?
nymag.com - 5/20/2008
Which Bands Should Fire Their Drummer?
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Photo: Getty Images In a piece in yesterday's New York Times Magazine , John Wray heralds the return of the one-man band and profiles several musicians who, thanks to cheap recording technology, are finally living out their dream of not having to pay a bass player. When asked, specifically, why he doesn't employ a drummer, Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett (whose album title He Poos Clouds the ...

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Largehearted Boy — ... New York magazine's Apropos of Nothing blog lists bands that should fire their drummer. Ringo Starr's All-Star Band Wouldn't Hamish Stuart, Gary Wright, Billy Squier, and Edgar Winter sound great together if they weren't playing a bunch of crappy songs that Ringo wrote? ...

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