You know exactly what I’m going to say now: he was mega, an absolute revelation. He had all that power that we were looking for but with a texture we hadn’t heard before. Most drummers just hammer it out. Steve was playing the drums. You could tell he’d been playing with a jazz trio, because it was as though he’d somehow combined the feel and intricacy of jazz with the power and energy of rock and punk. We were over the moon. At last, we had a drummer: a drummer straight from the drummer genie who was not only brilliant but also had his own kit and his own car.
