BY ANDY DOERSCHUK AND WALLY SCHNALLE It’s undeniable. Humiliated by its own excesses and reduced to a mere parody of itself, the rock drum solo is as extinct as the brontosaurus in the 1990s. But it doesn’t seem so long ago when every rock drummer worth his salt had to whip out an extended solo at a moment’s notice in order to be considered competitive. In retrospect, that was part of the problem. By the mid-’70s, rock drum solos had … Continue reading A Look Back At The Heyday Of Rock Drum Solos