Growing up in Omaha Nebraska does not give you much exposure to the funk, but it was hearing his brother's copy of Led Zeppelin IV that opened up Richard Vogel's ears to music. "My brother played it over and over on our mother's hi-fi in the living room and I'd pound along to the beat on the couch with a pair of drumsticks I got with a toy drum for Christmas. My mother eventually got fed up with all this and hid the record from us, but it was too late.....I had discovered the joys of a fat backbeat."
When Rich turned 15 he started taking lessons...
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