John Lingan

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Drummers Who Shaped Rock History (Ringo Starr, John Bonham, Charlie Watts, Dave Grohl & More) In the latest episode, author John Lingan highlights the crucial roles Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, John Bonham, Dave Grohl, and more play in shaping music history.

Rock history wouldn't be the same without these legendary drummers! Author John Lingan dives deep into the impact of #RingoStarr, #CharlieWatts, #JohnBonham, #DaveGrohl, and more in the latest episode! www.bookedonrock.com/post/drummer...

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Had a ball speaking to @bookedonrock.bsky.social about BACKBEATS. We got deep into some of the technical drumming stuff in the book and the subtle differences between many of the subjects. Great intro to project, and to my Easter Island-sized head.

Wow, Catonsville native here and had no idea.

Dude precisely

My thoughts exactly. Too snaky when Casey can just crush. And they mix Greenwood SO LOUD.

Dork take: LIVE GOD just doesn’t hit like classic Bad Seeds because it doesn’t have Thomas Wydler and Martin P. Casey, one of the great bass-drums combos of the last 50 years. Hope they both feel healthy soon.

Play It, Steve! The late Steve Cropper laid a template for generations of rock-and-roll guitarists.

I wrote about one of my greatest musical heroes, Steve Cropper: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Can’t take the singer but the drums are great.

This is true: my wife bought a copy for a neighbor of ours who is a drummer and huge music fan. You should do the same.

Bonzo bless Caleb, who made the 15 BACKBEATS playlists available on Tidal:

Co-sign! One of my fave reads of the year

Of course I messed up the thread. Continued correctly here:

My book BACKBEATS: A HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL IN 15 DRUMMERS makes a great gift for the percussionist, music fan, or discerning reader in your life.

johnlingan.com for reviews, a playlist for the book, and purchase links. And below are 15 playlists for each chapter. Rock on.

I already respected Grohl but learning of Tom Petty's respect for him was a different level. Petty was a maniacally driven perfectionist with a knowledge of pop & rock that rivalled Paul McCartney. He didn't invite people NEAR his band, let alone to join it..

No shortage of reasons to be tired of Grohl worship but soooo many musicians love having him play drums. Peerless.

Backbeats: Questlove by John Lingan on Apple Music Playlist · 11 Songs

Chapter 15! BACKBEATS concludes with Questlove, who brought 20th century technique to 21st century contexts, and epitomizes the push-pull between drummers and DJs that continues to this day. Embodiment of my thesis that drums drive everything.

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Mid-Atlantic weather advisory: dangerous levels of Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You.

G. In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teete...

Amazing news that @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social are reissuing two essential postmodern novels next year, "The Universal Baseball Association" and "G." The latter especially is astounding.

How embarrassing. I’ve confused my two fav English podcasters. It’s @zaltzcricket.bsky.social who hails from Tunbridge Wells. Everything is connected…

Every Bad Brains Album, Ranked Paul and Earl Hudson were born to a Jamaican mother and an American father who worked as a mechanic for the U.S. Air Force, and they moved all over the country

I ranked every Bad Brains album for Spin:
www.spin.com/2025/11/ever...

Oh sorry, I thought I’ve heard many jokes at T Wells’ expense on the show. Carry on then and happy reading.

It was what Hollywood likes to call a "cute meet," out in the neat 18th-century heart of downtown Tunbridge Wells, Roger motoring in the vintage Jaguar up to London, Jessica at the roadside struggling prettily with a busted bicycle, murky wool ATS skirt hiked up on a handle bar, most nonregulation black slip and clear pearl thighs above the khaki stockings, well—

"That's a queer thing to say," one muddy little shoe pondering on the running board. "Come along, love, you're holding up the mission, leave the machine where it is, mind your skirt getting in, I wouldn't want to commit an unspeakable act out here in the streets of Tunbridge Wells—" At which moment the rocket falls. Cute, cute. A thud, a hollow drum-roll. Far enough toward the city to be safe, but close and loud enough to

Mr @iammilliam.bsky.social I assume you’re aware of your hometown’s cameo in Gravity’s Rainbow but here’s a reminder all the same.

Backbeats: Dave Grohl by John Lingan on Apple Music Playlist · 12 Songs

Dave Grohl, subject of BACKBEATS chapter 14, needs no introduction. But his 30-year omnipresence as rock n roll uncle shouldn’t distract from the fact that he’s one of the two or three best rock drummers ever. At least that’s what Steve Albini told me. Nirvana, QUOTSA, Cat Power, Watt:

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Steve Cropper was so great that Janet Jackson faithfully remade one of his lesser-known ‘60s co-writes in 1993 and it sounded absolutely blazing even amid her groundbreaking work at the time. Stone cold genius, impossible to imagine US music without Stax & the MGs. Farewell.

Great review and I agree with it. The horror elements were so sloppy and overdone, but the establishing half hour or more is just thrilling. Lindo in the car.

We all have our past lives!

They definitely know that album in particular reached a lot of people and they have really cool, devoted fans. Just saw Jenn at her solo thing at the Atlantis.

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The deepest of melancholy farewells to the legendary Steve Cropper, one of the truly massive planets orbiting my musical solar system. Unbeatable tone. Wrote a song about him and Alex Chilton on the second to last Paranoid Style LP 'For Executive Meeting'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEoB...