Madkickindrum + Musician in Studio City, CA

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Michael has been playing for almost 20 years and has many influences in the rock, progressive and funk genres. Great natural clock with a trained ear for tune/frequency. Comfortable playing odd time signatures fluidly and dynamically.

Screen name:

Madkickindrum

Member since:

Oct 22 2014

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

20

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

4-5 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Queens of the Stone Age, Porcupine Tree, Tool, System of a Down, Kasabien, The Police, Alice in Chains, Prong, Beck, Refused, Black Sabbath, Beastie Boys, 311, Nine Inch Nails, Gorillaz, James Brown, Damageplan, Rage Against the Machine, The Chemical Brothers, Primus, David Bowie, AWOLNATION, Jimi Hendrix, ZZ Top, Queen, Supergrass, Metallica, Snoop Dogg, Pheonix,Yes, Rush, Steely Dan, Megadeath, Radiohead, Ministry, KMFDM, Led Zeppelin, King's X, Jimmy's Chicken Shack, Miles Davis, Soundgarden, Pantera, OutKast, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Van Halen

Instrument experience:

Drums:

Advanced

Other Percussion:

Advanced

EQUIPMENT

DW Custom all-Maple drumset (Classic Sunburst Laquor finish)
Lots of toms for lots of different configurations. 8"-10"-12"-14"-16" toms and 20x22 bass drum. Typical configuration is 12" mounted tom with a 16" floor tom 4 piece setup.

Pearl Sensitone II Snare with die cast rims (brass with nickel plated chrome)

Hardware - 9000 Series DW cymbal stands, hi-hat stand and double bass pedal, Pearl snare stand

Cymbals - 14" New Beat Zildjian hats, 16" AA Sabian Crash and 18" K custom Dark Crash, 19 Old School K custom Zildjian China, 21" AA Ping Ride

MUSIC