Beyond the Beats ─ Rock & Roll's Greatest Drummers Speak!

Beyond the Beats: Rock & Roll's Greatest Drummers Speak! is the first definitive book of its kind: a book by drummers, for drummers, featuring exclusive, chapter-length interviews with Rock & Metal's most popular players from the past 40 years.

This Rock & Roll Royalty includes:

• Tommy Lee of Motley Crue
• Lars Ulrich of Metallica
• Joey Kramer of Aerosmith
• Jimmy Chamberlin of The Smashing Pumpkins
• Tico Torres of Bon Jovi
• Chad Smith of The Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Taylor Hawkins of The Foo Fighters
• Stephen Perkins of Jane's Addiction
• Doug "Cosmo" Clifford of Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Steve Smith of Journey
• Kenny Aronoff of John Mellencamp/John Fogerty
• Matt Sorum of Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver

A holy grail for rock and metal drummers of any generation, this book features the stories behind hundreds of their favorite beats, from popular Classic Rock Radio hits like "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith, "Down on the Corner" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi to "Hurts So Good" by John Mellencamp and "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey, and for the heavier metal fans, everything from Metallica's Greatest Hits, from "Master of Puppets" to "One" and "Enter Sandman," Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart" or Guns N' Roses' "You Could Be Mine," or "Give it Away" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction, "Times Like These" by The Foo Fighters or "Today," "Bullet with Butterfly Wings," or "I am One" by The Smashing Pumpkins and hundreds of other hits across every generation and sub-genre of Rock & Roll were created from behind the kit.

Award-winning music biographer Jake Brown has written 44 books since 2001, featuring many authorized collaborations with some of rock's biggest artists, including 2013 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees Heart (with Ann and Nancy Wilson), living guitar legend Joe Satriani, country music legend Merle Haggard, heavy metal pioneers Motorhead (with Lemmy Kilmister), late hip hop icon Tupac Shakur (with the estate), celebrated rock drummer Kenny Aronoff, Michael Jackson producer Teddy Riley, country rap superstar BIG SMO, late funk pioneer Rick James, superstar country music anthology Nashville Songwriter, all-star rock drummers anthology Beyond the Beats, all-star rap producers Hip Hop Hits anthology, and the all-star rock producers anthology Behind the Boards, among many others.

Brown is a regular contributor to Tape Op (including the 2016 AES Cover Story with Smashing Pumpkins' mastermind Billy Corgan) has also appeared as the featured biographer of record on Fuse TV's Live Through This series and Bloomberg TV's Game Changers series, and received national press in Rolling Stone Magazine, CBS News, USA Today, MTV.com, The Hollywood Reporter, Parade Magazine, and Billboard. In 2012, Brown won the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award in the Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research category.