A diving instructor called Perry Boyer is giving me a crash course in drumming stagecraft. If you’re planning on playing with your sticks on fire, he advises, tie socks around them – they’ll light more easily.
Boyer, speaking by Zoom from California, knows what he’s talking about. Forty years ago he was Punky Peru, drummer in Witch, a fixture on the LA glam metal scene that bore Mötley Crüe, Wasp and Poison to stardom. Witch should probably have joined them – they had the songs, the spandex and the theatricality. But it never worked out: the wrong record deals
