Billy Martin aka illyB is 1/3 of the band Medeski Martin and Wood. If you don't know who they are then I can't do any more for you. He's one of the best and most musical drummers around today. He has also played with John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, John Zorn, and does an occasional double drummer show with G. Calvin Weston and that's just a few. Every drummer should know Billy Martin. Very important and RELEVANT drummer.

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I had the pleasure of setting up for Max for a Black History Month show at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 90's. What a nice guy!

He thanked me for an accurate setup which he did not alter, but he did mention that at first he couldn't find the snare strainer. I had automatically placed it on the left toward the front, which I was commonly doing in those days to avoid any inadvertent release at an inopportune moment.