Gold and Platinum drummer musician Manny Kellough, and lifelong friend of the legendary Billy Preston is my special guest on episode 17, season 3 of Music Matters Podcast.

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

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🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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I had an awesome podcast chat this week with gold and platinum drummer musician Manny Kellough, long-time drummer and lifelong friend of the legendary Billy Preston! A great guy, with amazing stories! Amongst the many well-known musicians that Manny knows, he shares with the listeners about his close friendship with Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer, and George Harrison of the Beatles. So...listen in on episode 17, season 3 of Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris. Manny also recorded and performed with Larry Graham and Graham Central Station ”Aint No Bout A Doubt it” and played percussion with The Rolling Stones on their ”Goats Head Soup” tour! Below are all the ways you can connect and follow Manny Kellough. Remember that this is your guy if you‘re looking for a consummate seasoned professional player to complement your music project(s). MannyKellough.net Manny Kellough‘s NEW Release https://www.facebook.com/manny.kellough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w4juAH1R6A Music Matters is sponsored by Switcher Studio with support from Shure Shure UK

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switcher Chats. Music interviews brought to you by Music Matters with
0:09.6	How Crank Harris and Music Tribes In Night.
0:22.9	Many Kellogg, how are you doing today? Good, how are you doing my friend?
0:26.9	I am good. So we've been friends for a long time. We played together many times and you're a very
0:31.2	well-known drummer who's recorded on several hip recordings. You have several cold records,
0:35.5	platinum records. And most of those work with Mr. Billy Preston, who's very well-known as a solo
0:42.1	artist also for playing with the Beatles, playing with the Rolling Stones, which we're going to talk
0:45.7	about all that stuff. And we just did an interview recently with for modern drummer talking about
0:51.6	Charlie Watts who was a good friend. So we're going to talk about that too. So where are you living
0:57.4	to these days? I'm living on the East Coast. I live in Woodbridge, Virginia. Nice, is that you got
1:03.9	there for family or? Yeah, I'm here with my family. Yeah, you got, actually you just got married
1:09.9	fairly recently. How long have you been married? I've gone on seven years. Okay, well seven years,
1:15.6	yeah, that's been a while. We haven't actually, so we kind of lost touch a little bit when you move
1:20.8	back east because you were living in Las Vegas and that's how we first met. And so and then originally
1:27.1	you're from Los Angeles, right? That's right. Born, raised in Los Angeles, California.
1:32.0	Cool. And you kind of grew up in the church playing, playing drums in the church,
1:35.3	is that how you kind of got started? How old were you when you first started playing drums?
1:38.6	I was eight years old when I first started playing drums at the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in
1:44.1	Los Angeles, California. Wow, that's great. That's such a great background, right? Because church
1:48.7	music is gospel. That is just some fun stuff. Yeah, it is. Yeah, really cool. Everything comes from
1:55.7	gospel. You know, blues comes from gospel, then the jazz comes from blues. So gospel is the roots.
2:04.5	Yeah, yeah, rock and roll, all that stuff, right? Came from Southern, Southern gospel and
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