Maureen Tucker: Playin' Possum

Maureen 'Moe' Tucker... Bo Diddley (.mp3 audio 03:55). From Maureen Tucker: Playin' Possum (1982, Trash Records) at Dinosaur Gardens. "...Maureen 'Moe' Tucker, the Velvet Underground’s drummer, was notable in that even people who don’t pay a lot of attention to drummer styles can immediately pick her out. Her style — mallets, not sticks; no snares on the drums; very few cymbals; all to a Bo Diddley–influenced beat — was even more vital to the VU’s sound than John Cale’s viola, and it’s no coincidence that the only VU album she wasn’t on, 1970’s Loaded, was also by far their worst.
After the Velvets broke up, she moved to Texas and got a job at Wal-Mart, and concentrated on raising her large family. She finally went back to music in 1981, when she recorded her first album, Playin’ Possum. She recorded it in her living room ('between diaper changes,' she says) over a period of six months, overdubbing every instrument, and the result was quite odd; it doesn’t really sound like anything else." Via PCL LinkDump.