Female Drummers Round Table Monopolized

Hats off to local Vancouver Drummer Flavio Monopoli for speaking his mind in print to Modern Drummer and receiving their accolade by printing his thoughts in the July '96 issue.

It is unfortunate that old sexist stereotypes still exist in our society. Music should be about creative expression, and not about these stereotypes. I applaud the women in your "Female Drummers Round Table" [March '96 MD] not for being female drummers, but for being great drummers. In the end, when the music is playing on the stereo, some of us may be able to identify an individual's signature style, but no one can simply say, "This was played by a man" or "This was played by a woman." - Flavio Monopoli, Modern Drummer, July 1996.