Eric Delaney

British drummer Eric Delaney appeared to have curtailed musical activity from the '70s onward, an inconclusive, perhaps discouraging concluding chapter in a career book guaranteed to fascinate the serious percussion fiend. Delaney was born into one of London's many musical families in the early '20s, initially taking a classical course. There were piano lessons, followed by a private paradiddle professor once the dude drooled for drumming. A dozen years later and the young lad was still thumping away to the beat of a conductor's baton, circa 1946 and the Guildhall School of Mu...