Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967's "Funky Broadway," a Dyke & the Blazers classic and one of the first hit songs to use a variation ...

Arlester "Dyke" Christian and his bandmates were packing the dance floor at one of their regular stomping grounds in Phoenix, the Elks Club on Seventh Avenue, when a man approached to ask whose song ...

All the pop-music-history chestnuts apply: Dyke & The Blazers were musical influencers who changed rhythm and blues; their contribution to Phoenix’s musical legacy is unequaled; the members of the ...

The musician deployed a drumming technique that would influence countless funk and hip-hop artists. By Steve Knopper Rodney Brown, drummer on 1967’s “Funky Broadway,” a Dyke & the Blazers classic and ...