(Bothering) Jody Stephens of Big Star

There's something fantastically incongruous about meeting up with Big Star drummer Jody Stephens at the Village, a hallowed Los Angeles recording studio. This is, after all, the site where some of the greatest monuments to the cocaine era – including Fleetwood Mac's Tusk and Steely Dan's Aja – were crafted. These are the albums that signaled a sea change, marking a point at which studiocraft and songwriting became inextricably linked. Some titanic failures, some blo...

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