Who is steve ferrone

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Steve Ferrone. Band or Affiliations:. Current Kit Setup:. Gretsch Drums 5 hours ago. He was using one hand different than the other hand. What happened from there? I practiced it every night. I started listening every night to what his foot was doing and I figured that out. I was 12 years old and I used to go to this ballroom in Brighton called the Regent Ballroom on Saturday mornings. It was open at night, but they had this thing for kids that started around 9 a.

It was young kids having a dance-hall experience and a little bit of a social life. I was a pretty good dancer, but us guys never got any action from any of the girls. They did a soundcheck and they played four or five songs for us kids. Every girl in the place just went crazy. We need to start a band. That was the beginning of that. Where did things go from there? At 21, I went to school in France and learned how to read music a little bit.

At 21, I decided I needed to take this a bit more seriously if I was going to do this professionally. I learned the craft of being a musician, being able to read and follow a chart to be a pro. Play it. I wanted to know what the groove was, where the pocket was, so I could remember it. Arif noticed this.

That led to a lot of work. I started with Bette Midler and Chaka Khan and started to do more and more of that. Through doing these sessions with Arif, who was the hot producer in town, other people started to call to do sessions. I just started to work with all these people and I got to befriend them. I became one of the New York studio guys and these guys really taught me how they worked in New York. But I always credit Arif Mardin for being my mentor and starting me with that stuff.

I love that record. I got a call to go to the Power Station from Nile Rodgers. At that time, Bernard and I were almost living in the Power Station. I went into the studio and my drums were set up. There was this sort of silence. A lot of this goes on. Stick around. I was sitting outside and I heard them doing all kinds of stuff with the guitar because the rhythm guitar has all these effects on it. You might notice it on the record.

They put on this shadowing stuff. They were in there messing with this guitar part. It just threw it out of time with the drums. They want you to replay the drums to that. That was the track that really stood out for me on that thing.

It was really cool. How did you wind up in the Saturday Night Live house band for the —86 season? What had happened was Lorne had just come back to Saturday Night Live.

I got this call asking if I wanted to play in the band. I knew most of those guys, anyway. We had played on sessions together. Smith was the bandleader. T-Bone Wolk was the bass player in the band. We just sort of went down and started doing the rehearsals.

I had done lots of sessions with [pianist] Leon Pendarvis. I pretty much knew everybody that was in the band. I had worked with them at some point or another. That was a tumultuous time for the show. Do you remember any of that tension? At certain points, we felt there were better jokes going on around the band than there was on the stage. As with most eras of Saturday Night Live , sometimes it just sits there in the doldrums until somebody hits something or the cast finally jells.

We all credited Jon Lovitz with coming with the Liar character. It was something that we loved and we mimicked a lot of his Liar stuff. Tell me about joining Duran Duran the next year right before they made Notorious.

I had this drum tech named Artie Smith. He was a drum tech around town. He worked for me, Steve Gadd, and a lot of different drummers. He was strong as an ox. I saw him pick up a Hammond organ once and throw it in the back of a van. He was my friend as well as my tech. Sure enough, I get this call from [bassist] John Taylor asking if I wanted to come over to England and meet [keyboardist] Nick [Rhodes] and we can see if this is going to work out. There I was back in the band world again.

We had the start of maybe three or four songs. It was fun. It was a bit different. And then Simon Le Bon showed up. Simon took the songs and made a couple of changes with some chords and these grooves. Then he opened his mouth and there it was. It was Duran Duran. Tell me about the tour. Young, screaming fans must have been a pretty big change for you from your days in the Average White Band. By that point, I was I always cracked a joke that I was the oldest teen idol in the business.

How did that happen? Duran Duran got all dressed up and we went down there. Duran Duran was very fashionable and I was doing very well, so I bought some fashionable clothes and went down there.

What were they called? Spandau Ballet? Spandau Ballet! Anyway, everybody was milling around in the Hard Rock and Phil Collins comes up to me. We sit down and we chat and it went very nicely. It was nice meeting you.

A couple of weeks later I get this phone call from these people that worked for Eric Clapton and they wondered if I would go and play with Eric. That sounds like fun. That was the beginning of me playing with Clapton and that was one of my busiest periods when I was playing with Duran Duran and Clapton. I spent only about three weeks at home that year. That was when I had to really, seriously think about giving up the Saturday Night Live seat. There were other people that could have used that seat for some income, so I resigned my seat and got really busy.

I love seeing Clapton play with a small band like the one you had with him. I agree with you entirely. I went out to dinner with him late last year in London. Derek Trucks is fun with him, but it would come up to a solo and Eric would point at Derek and Derek would take the solo.

As fine a guitarist as he is, you want to see Eric, not Derek. I saw them at Madison Square Garden [in ] and he was phenomenal. Tell me about playing drums on the George Harrison tour. That was a big deal. He was very, very friendly and funny. We were all in the dressing room together. Of course, we will! He was isolated and just miserable on that tour. I think he was thinking he was going to take time off, but for some reason he came along with us.

Even better! When we were at rehearsals, Ringo showed up and [percussionist] Ray Cooper had a second drum kit. Basically, I was sitting onstage with two of the Beatles. I see this now. That tour could have easily hit North America and Europe and really all over the world. Why was it just Japan? I have no idea. I think mainly because so many Americans went to Japan. So many people from America went over there to see that show. We played three nights at the Tokyo Dome.

We played all over Japan. That was a lot of fun. When we went to Hiroshima, we all took a walk around the Peace [Memorial] Park where the bomb went off. We rang the peace bell. You have to hit it with this big log. Nobody would do it [ laughs ].

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