The Liberty DeVitto Interview...

[Rick Henry]

A few years back I conducted an interview with the famous Liberty DeVitto. He's best known for being the drummer in billy Joel's backing band. Liberty played drums on all those classic Billy Joel albums from the mid 70's to mid 80's.

Liberty as most of us here know he played drums on most of the songs on Karen's solo album. I first posted this interview on the original The Carpenters Online web site in late 2004... and here it is again for your enjoyment.

I will only keep this interview posted for one month... until April 20, 2008.

Here is the link below... just click to go to the page where you can find the interview.
carponline.proboards21.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=lib&thread=1206081838

[Rick Henry]

Hello friends...

News of the Liberty DeVitto interview has shown up in several different places across the internet.

I've checked out some of those places just to see what others are saying. Most people are very interested and like the interview... But one person made a comment that I stole information from her and used it. At that she also said that I posted her information wrong.

My feelings were hurt by this, as the Liberty DeVitto interview was done one on one between Liberty and I, through email. Nowhere in this interview is there any information from any other source. There are only the questions I asked Liberty and the answers he gave me.

The preface which I wrote for this interview is based on commonly known information I found from reading the Ray Coleman book and the Randy Schmidt book.

I wanted to clear this up for those who may have seen this comment on another forum.