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“I got a hacksaw and I chopped down the stand and put the hi-hats down there”: How the right-handed Simon Phillips learned to play left-handed as a young drummer – with inspiration from two fusion legends and some drastic DIY

Saturday November 8, 2025. 01:00 PM , from Keyboard Magazine
'It was all disco in 1975 – pretty simple'
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