On this Zachary Alford interview, hanging out with Jean Michel Basquiat, learning to play to a click, getting the gig with the B-52’s, Springsteen, Bowie… expanding his mind by living in Japan, dealing with his parent’s divorce at a very young age, being a “citizen of the world,” processing family alienation, playing with his P-Funk heroes, making others happy, drawing, Prince of the Astral Kingdom, jiu jitsu, more. VERY cool convo!
A self-taught drumming success from NYC, Zachary has recorded and toured the world with the B-52’s in support of the multiple platinum awarded album “Cosmic Thing.” Zachary also toured the world with Bruce Springsteen and did two tours and two LPs with David Bowie. Zachary also toured or recorded with Gwen Stefani, Billy Joel, Suzanna Hoffs, The Manic Street Preachers, Jeffery Gains, David Torn, Suzanne Vega, 123 Soliel, Rafael, Jade Bird, Patti Scialfa and international superstars Zucchero, Khaled and Tomoyasu Hotei