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https://scottkfish.com/2015/12/29/jerry-allison-keep-everything-relatively-simple/
excerpts from interview with Jerry Allison.
Jerry Allison: Well, I started playing drums in the school band in the fifth gradde. I started studying music and the rudiments an the regular drumming deal, going through, like, band and high school band and all that.
The kind of music I liked was like Little Richard and Fats Domino. So that about wraps it up, I guess. (laughs)
No. Really, I took drum lessons and learned to read music and all that sort of thing. Couldn’t get much rock ‘n roll around Lubbock, Texas. But when it started happening I really enjoyed it and tried to play like Little Richard’s drummer, Earl Palmer. I think I played a lot of that stuff. He’s a good friend of mine. We play together a lot in L.A. when I use to live out there. I use to do a lot of sessions with him out there.
SKF: I was noticing [on Little Richard and Fats Domino records] the bass drum work he [Earl Palmer] did on those records.
JA: Yeah. He did great.
SKF: Little Richard and Earl Palmer were only a few years ahead of you guys. Almost contemporaries.
JA: Yeah.
SKF: They were about three or four years ahead of you?
JA: Maybe not even that much. Maybe just a couple. When we first went on the road we were doing shows with Little Richard. And Earl Palmer wasn’t on the road with him at that time. There was a guy named Cornelius Coleman that played on the road with Fats Domino. We were on the road with them the first tour we dd. Fats Domino’s band. I liked the way he played real well.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 22 August 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link