Gene Krupa Obituaries

Scott K Fish

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Gene Krupa Obituaries

SKF NOTE: Going through some of my music newspaper clippings file folders. Found these two Gene Krupa obituaries from New York newspapers The New York Times and Newsday. I remember this day very well. I was age 22. Sixteen years earlier, age 6, Gene Krupa’s recording of China Boy, set me on my lifelong love of drums and drumming.

CAVEAT: I'm not sure why it doesn't work here. I wanted it to. But these photos should expand to full size when you click on them. They do over at Life Beyond the Cymbals for anyone who finds the larger photos useful.

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Here's a Zildjian Factory Tour vid.... at about 2:50 the Krupa influence on Zildjians is noted. If you ever go to the factory there is a Krupa display which basically points to the fact that Krupa's request for thinner cymbals and Zildjian R&D made Zildjian cymbal company soar into the business model that it is today, and has been since the early 50's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOEIHfwEZI
 
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