Tragic Loss, R.I.P. Richie Hayward

While I was blissfully hiking over this past weekend, the music world and more specifically, the world of drummers lost a truly gifted player named Richie Hayward.

If you’re in the know, then you know he was/is/forevershallbe the indomitable rhythmic spirit of the great Little Feat. If you’re not in the know, I suggest you rush out and get any of the first 6 Little Feat discs and more specifically Waiting for Columbus which is truly one of THE greatest live records EVER recorded. The man was seriously one of the funkiest humans that ever picked up sticks. He WAS the swamp in their swing.

I feel honored to have met him at NAMM in 1994. He was gracious, humble and warm having not known me or having any idea why I was talking with him (I was trying to get an endorsement with Remo heads and he was there at the same time). He will be missed but thankfully we have TONS of his music on disc and on video. To wit, enjoy this killer clip from 1976 doing “Fat Man in the Bathtub”.

R.I.P. you funky motherSHUTYOURMOUTH!