During the 2020 lockdowns an idea of remaking Sandy Nelson’s classic Let There Be Drums was born. Don Powell had been wanting to make this happen for some time, and the decision was made to ask a few drummers to guest on it. We had to stop asking when the total quickly reached 20

The project required live recordings of 25 musicians who, due to the pandemic, could not be in the same recording studio together. In fact, it was difficult to find any studio that was still open at all. Amazingly, most of the recordings and videos were done at home by these illustrious musicians, despite lockdowns.

With the Don Powell Band added to the drum army it was then the job of guest pianist Jon Bates to assemble, engineer and produce the tsunami of audio files.
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Youtube interview with Don about the project HERE
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The Don Powell Band Don Powell: Drums Craig Fenney: Bass Bob Wilson: Guitar Jon Briscoe: Guitar Curly Davies: Tambourine with special guest Jon Bates: Piano Guest Drummers Brian Bennett: The Shadows Bev Bevan: Quill, ex Move, ex ELO, ex Black Sabbath Andy Edwards: Robert Plant, IQ, Frost, Rob Brian: Peter Gabriel, Simple Minds, Siouxsie Sioux Jamie Little: Jason Donovan, Beverley Knight, Steve Vai Karl Brazil: Robbie Williams, James Blunt Tom Meadows: Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud, Jamie Morrison: The Stereophonics Craig Bacon: Gloria Gaynor, Nimmo Brothers Mick Barker: Mickey Barker; Second Vision, Magnum, Bernie Marsden and KoM Derrick McKenzie: Jamiroquai Matt Cowley: Emily Capell, Bernie Marsden Lee Agnew: Nazareth Craig Blundell: Steve Wilson, Steve Hackett ’Sticky’ Wicket: Chris Barber, Jools Holland Richard Rayner: Multiple award winning percussion and drum performer Rebekah Rayner: Session drummer Toby Wilson: Session drummer Mark DeCloedt: EMF