May 2021
Brian Ripple, by Michael Jochum
BR: Today we are talking with Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts drummer, Michael Jochum. Hello Michael, I hope in these strange times you and your family are staying healthy.
MJ: Thanks so much for having me Brian. I really enjoy the Bozeman Magazine…
May 2021
Hey honey, come over here. My friend will buy you a drink, but you’ve got to sit on his lap.” Some drunk guy at a bar said this to me when I was 16 and there singing with a band. I dealt, and still do deal with stuff like that a lot, and…
April 2021
A monumental loss. My singular interaction with Armando Chick Corea stands as one of the most profound experiences of my musical career.
Michael Jochum
The year 1984 was a time of incredible, creative music flow. My career as a “drummer of note” was catapulting me into some of the most envied musical situations in Los Angeles. Approaching my 25th year, I had a four-year-old daughter to…
April 2021
Abby Bradford
The Bozeman Symphony returns to the Willson Auditorium for its final free livestream concert of the season, Montgomery, Mendelssohn and Bach, featuring its very own principal flute Sue Makeever and the string section of the orchestra. To close a…
March 2021
Michael Jochum
Playing drums is like making love. You never look down to see how the flow is going.The phrase “a virtually impossible task” resonated in my mind as I hung up the phone (of course, I didn’t really hang up the phone. I just pushed…
March 2021
Brian Ripple
Brian Ripple: Let’s start back at the beginning. Where did you go to high school? Then you can take it from there.
Steve Drizos: Well, I grew up in Upstate New York, right outside of Albany, in a town called Scotia. So I went to Scotia High…
Brian Ripple
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Shawn Swain: I heard you had some some questions for us.
Bozeman Magazine: Well, you know us at Bozeman Magazine & Ripple Sound have…
February 2021
Angie Ripple
“Good drums get the dancers out there, good songs get them to dance well. Without drum groups there is no music. No music, no dance, no powwow.” - Roberts, Chris (1992) Powwow Country
It wasn’t the lack of good drums that made for…
February 2021
Montana’s community of musicians has been without live opportunities to perform for close to a year. When Sam Platts and his band, the Plainsmen, found themselves looking for a way to continue sharing music they wanted to do something that…
February 2021
Michael Jochum
In and around 1987, I was playing in the house band for The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox. Tracey is one of the funniest and genuinely nicest people I have ever met in the “business of music.” The band was stellar: Richard Gibbs was our…
