This first episode we are incredibly happy to welcome John H. Beck as an interviewee. Recorded in May 2022, John looks back with host Francesca Santangelo on nearly eight decades as a drummer and percussionist, more than five decades as an educater and professor!
We talk about how John had to drive many miles to get drum set lessons as a 13 year old. That the principle of the shool gave him a week off every week. We talk about what it was like to discover Steve Gadd as a young 14 year old boy and what it means to develop your own sound, your own voice. How important humility and listening are to serving the music.
And last but not least you listen John Beck giving an essential impulse to musicians in the course of the podcast: Forget your mistakes and enjoy music!