“I'm not a fan of me. Okay?” Chester Thompson tells us over Zoom. “I mean, I'm not impressed! My job – I say this tongue-in-cheek, but I really mean it – as I've gotten older, I have more fun than ever, because over the years I've finally realised that my job is just to sit there and listen. Then I respond to what I hear around me.
"Fortunately, I've played so many crazy styles of music and done so many different things, I always just try to trust my instincts…If I'm thinking about what I'm doing, then it's a disaster. I think any drummer will tell you, you can play a thing 100 times, and if you start thinking about it while you're doing it, you're gonna really mess it up.”
