Rhythm

Tributes to Gadd…

ERIC CLAPTON

The blues guitar legend on his first mystical meeting with ‘the brother I never had’

“I had heard of Steve for a long, long time – our careers probably had been running parallel – but I wasn’t familiar with his body of work until I heard some of the Paul Simon stuff and Steely Dan.

“I had a long experience of working with incredibly good drummers, but they had all moved in and out of my life – like Ginger [Baker] and Steve Ferrone, Jim Gordon and Jim Keltner to name a few. I think I

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