They posed some Freddy Links on "The Drum Channel" site this week in his honor. I know all about him from Neil's books and some other stuff I'd read, but never actuall y heard him speak.
After watching them, All I can say is......Wow !!!
What a character. While He had that air of quiet cool that all the old jazz/be bop guys have he came off sort of like a drumming Keith Richards. Tough to understand, very funny, and certainly from some other planet. But those other drummers in the room, you can tell, love him.