It's a fill that sounds entirely sure of itself, but the iconic drum barrage that session ace Kenny Aronoff unleashed at the heart of John 'Cougar' Mellencamp's Jack and Diane was a last-minute, under-the-gun improvisation.
Speaking to somethingelsereviews.com in 2012, the session ace recalled of the sessions for the smash hit's host album, 1982's American Fool, "every day felt like a week.
"It was painful. It was hard. He wanted perfection. He wanted results that he couldn’t come up with.”
