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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 drum…

As a right-handed drummer, Phillips developed his signature open-handed technique by watching Cobham and White on stage in ...