Joe Bergamini / (Steve Gadd) GADD: A LIFE IN TIME

Gadd: A Life in Time, is a look at legendary drummer Steve Gadd’s incredible career. Limited edition, collectible hardcover printing, with a limited number of books signed by Steve. Foreword by James Taylor.

This unique, coffee-table style collector’s book and package offers a compelling look at all the aspects of Steve Gadd’s incredible career. From his rise out of Rochester into the New York studios and through his staggering body of work up to the present day, go behind the scenes at monumental recording sessions during a golden age of music in New York City and Los Angeles, and backstage with Clapton, Taylor, The Gadd Gang and more. The package comes with the 236-page main book and a separate, spiral-bound, 82-page book of all the music notation contained in the hardcover book, and hours of bonus video. The definitive musical biography of a legend was culled from dozens of hours of interviews with Steve himself and written under Gadd’s supervision. This limited edition will create a unique collector’s item with signed copies available on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Exclusive limited edition hardcover
• Autographed by Steve Gadd (optional)
• 236 pages, including color photographs with some never-before-seen photos from the Gadd family archives
• Spiral bound, 82-page notation booklet featuring every transcription from the hard cover book.
• Access to 8+ hours of video, including:
  • Up Close – original raw camera masters from the classic DCI Music Video production
  • In Session – original raw camera masters from the classic DCI Music Video production
  • Steve Gadd Band live performance, Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Show (2022)
  • 20-minute Steve Gadd career documentary, narrated by Tony Levin

• Included: “Aja,” “Nite Sprite,” “Fifty Ways,” “Spain,” “Lenore,” and many more.
• Contributions from Donald Fagen, Tony Levin, James Taylor, Eddie Gomez, Gary Katz and more.
• Complete biography and musical analysis from author Joe Bergamini.
• Bonus: Access to the raw camera masters from Steve’s classic Up Close and In Session videos, plus a live Gadd Gang performance from 2002.

About the Author

Joe Bergamini is recognized internationally as a performing drummer and educator based in New York. As a best-selling author, Joe has written authorized musical biographies with drumming legends Neil Peart: Taking Center Stage (winner of Best Educational Product in the 2013 Modern Drummer Readers Poll), GADD: A Life in Time, COBHAM: The Drumming & Music of Billy Cobham; and Stewart Copeland: Drumming in The Police & Beyond. 

Steve Gadd is one of the most in-demand recording drummers in the world.  With a career spanning four decades, he is an icon of the music world whose name has become synonymous with groove and drumming greatness. As a sideman, his resumé reads like a list of the most important artists of the last half century:  James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Chick Corea, Paul Simon, Al Jarreau, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, Stuff, Chuck Mangione, and hundreds of others. With an instantly identifiable feel, sound, and vocabulary, Gadd is considered by drummers to be one of the all-time greats, and is easily one of the most copied, studied, and imitated players in drum set history.

Additional Information

Hard Cover (2024)

$49.99 for a unsigned copy.

$59.99 for a signed copy.

Rock Cellar Customer enjoys a 20% discount automatically.