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Dave Mattacks

Dave Mattacks

“What I enjoy most is playing good tunes with good musicians. That little phrase covers a multitude of sins. I’ve no desire to play loads of different styles. I haven’t got the desire anymore to be a great big-band drummer, a great jazz drummer, a great funk drummer. I don’t want to be able to do those things. I’m too busy trying to play what I want to play in the style of the people I’m working with without having to make a drastic adoption of styles. If it happens to be a sort of funk session, which I don’t really get, they come out a little bit how I would play them. That’s more important than trying to cover everything.”

Self