V is for Vinnie Colaiuta
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Ln6b_nBM-V8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 When Dave Mustaine tapped Vinnie Colaiuta to drum on Megadeth’s 2004 album The System Has Failed, I was shocked. I knew Colaiuta from his work with Frank Zappa (and also enough jazz fusion records to guarantee my singlehood for life). “What was Mustaine thinking?” I wondered. He could have had any metal drummer that...
Brian Peterson - Burning Fight (book)
Burning Fight (Revelation, 2009), by Chicago-area hardcore punk veteran Brian Peterson, features dozens of recollections and analyses of mid to late ’90s hardcore. The book is something of a defiant response to American Hardcore, whose author Steven Blush pronounced the death of hardcore by 1986. This reflects the common process wherein aging members of a...