Percussionist Everett Bradley has worked with legends of the music industry for years and is featured in fantastic interview for Rolling Stone’s Unknown Legend series. Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features percussionist Everett Bradley.
Here is an excerpt:
A small army of ace musicians have come and gone from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and Bon Jovi over the years, but only one spent time in the two quintessential New Jersey rock acts: percussionist-vocalist Everett Bradley. He joined up with E Street in 2012 for the Wrecking Ball tour and stayed through the end of the High Hopes run in 2014. Two years later, he brought his talents to Bon Jovi and he’s been there ever since.
It’s all part of a long career that has also included time on the road with Hall and Oates and Carly Simon, studio hours with David Bowie and U2, and stints in the musicals Swing! and Stomp. He was also the bandleader-sidekick on Meredith Vieira’s short-lived talk show. “There aren’t many Renaissance artists around,” he says. “I’m the last one of them that does multiple things like this.”
Read this interview: HERE
