Steve Maxwell Drums

Steve Maxwell Sr. calls up Bobby Colomby to talk Blood, Sweat & Tears; making a documentary; Jaco Pastorius, Mark Knopfler, Jesús Molina; Rogers Wine Red Ripple, and more!

Steve Jr sits down with 9 Cymbal smiths to talk about their backgrounds and the process of their craft. Live from the 32nd Chicago Drum Show! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwIxSTIHpJA Cymbal Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-daBCxjrP0

Steve Sr and Steve Jr sit down to talk happenings around the shop, new drums in stock, and gearing up for the 32nd Rebeats Chicago Drum Show!

Steve Jr. sits down with George Fludas and Terry Keating to talk drums, John Bonham, Led Zeppelin, Ludwig and click tracks!

Steve Jr. sits down with jazz drummer Jack Mouse to talk about his story, the Falconaires, Yamaha, Brushes, and his latest projects!

Steve Maxwell Jr sits down with author Rob Cook to talk Rebeats, The Leedy Company, Biking, and The Chicago Drum Show!

Steve Jr. and Noah sit down with Adam Topol (Percussionist, RootsEQ, Jack Johnson) and talk vintage drums, hand percussion, tape machines, touring, and RootsEQ!   Huge thanks to Adam for stopping in while on tour!

Steve Jr. sits down with drummer Steve Hawk to talk drumming lineage, hot jazz, vintage sound, and local venues!

Steve Jr. sits down with his old friend Nils Higdon to talk about their history, Second Line, traditional beats, Bosphorus, and cats! Featuring a follow-up demo by Higdon!

Steve Maxwell Jr sits down with his dad and Mike Curotto to talk drums (pre-Chicago Drum Show 2022)

Steve Maxwell Jr. sits down with our very own Noah Ice to talk about the shop, the Chicago Drum Show, Trains, and Band Names

Steve Jr. sits down with Randy Rainwater to talk drum collecting, welding, Cheap Trick, and the upcoming 31st Chicago Drum Show

Steve Maxwell Jr. sits down and chats with Cleo Cole, drummer for The Mike Wheeler band!

Steve Maxwell Jr. sits down with Matt Wilson to talk Jazz, Craviotto, the New School, and Touring!

This podcast is long overdue. We finally have arrived at Gretsch, the company we have worked with for many years. We hope you enjoy this!!

I had a great time with my good friend B3 or Bill Ludwig the third on this podcast. We get into all sorts of good stuff, including many entertaining stories from his childhood growing up in the second Chicago Ludwig factory and on to him working with musicians all over the world. B3 is always a treat to have around and he is still at it making drums with his current company WFL III. Lots of good stuff here, we hope you enjoy this episode!!

We all had a fantastic time at the show in 2021 and our good friend Joe was good enough to join me for a podcast! He has been there from the start and has plenty of good stories about collecting drums, the origins of the Rebeats Chicago Vintage Drum Show and even his contribution to the modern drum world, Hot Rods, the original bundled dowel drumsticks. He has been collecting drums from back when most people did not know what they had, and has some of the toughest to find unique rare drums out there. This is a fun one, enjoy it!!

Hello again everyone, here with another installment of our podcast. Just a shop update here, with some Craviotto news and a sad note and tribute. Arnie Lang renown NY city percussionist and owner of Lang Gladstone has passed away. He lived a tremendously productive and important life with great influence in bringing back the genius innovations of the Gladstone snare drum with it's three way tuning system for modern players.  We will all miss him and give thanks for all that he did to enrich our world during his life. 

Paul Jacki is a household name in certain circles around Chicagoland. He has worked in just about every successful drum shop from Frank's to Drums Ltd. to The Drum Pad.  We here at Maxwell Drums have been friends with Paul for many years with my father first meeting him back at Frank's in the seventies/eighties and Jr. experiencing his first drum shop (The Drum Pad) during Paul's time there. Paul is a great jazz player also with plenty of enjoyable stories to tell! We are happy to have him here with all of his insights and knowledge for this fun dialog, enjoy!!

This is our talk on the history of one of Chicago's own historic drum manufacturing companies, Slingerland. This company made many innovations over the years, and we try to touch on many of these. They had their own personal sound that you really can not miss and is rarely replicated today. They are also soon to see a renaissance as the name is now owned by DW and they have big plans for the future! We hope you enjoy this episode.