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May 29, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 170: Gregg Bissonette

Welcome to episode 170 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Here’s a 35-minute conversation I nabbed with […]
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May 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Gregg Bissonette Drum Workshop (May 26, Wgtn)

Gregg Bissonette: Drum Workshop  Memorial Theatre, Victoria University of Wellington  Sunday, May 26  American session-star drummer Gregg Bissonette is in the country as part of Rodger Fox’s touring Jazz Gala and ahead of those concerts for a series of drum workshops. He’s been to New Zealand a bunch of times – some 20 years ago as a clinician and more recently as the […]
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May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gregg Bissonette Drum Clinics in NZ: May 2019

As part of the Jazz Gala featuring Gregg Bissonette the legendary session drummer will also be performing a set of drum clinics. Gregg can be heard, across the years, on albums by Joe Satriani and David Lee Roth, he’s now a regular touring drummer for the Ringo Starr All-Starr Band, he’s an in-demand clinician and has played […]
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July 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Ringo Starr: Postcards From Paradise

Ringo Starr Postcards From Paradise UMe Here’s a brand new album by Ringo Starr – and it’s his best since back around the time of 1992’s Time Takes Time, but it earns that title, “best”, by virtue of not being (quite) as shitty as any of the albums he’s released since. And though you probably […]
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