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Experienced drummer with diverse rock, funk, jazz, fusion and progressive background.
I've been described as a B personality with an A drive, meaning I enjoy getting along with my bandmates and creating great music while continually focused on musical goals and working hard on achieving them. I am no slouch when it comes to playing and practicing.
- Screen name:
- PlaysItAll
- Member since:
- Mar 15 2012
- Active within 1 week
- Level of commitment:
- Touring
- Years playing music:
- 40
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 6-7 nights a week
- Most available:
- Nights
Influences
Drummers:
Keith Moon
Billy Cobham
Travis Barker
John Bonham
Steve Gadd
Max Roach
Phil Collins
Simon Phillips
- I appreciate the diversity of styles of these great drummers, as well as a great many others.
- I especially love to create and play original music in the funk, fusion and progressive genres.
- For tribute covers, I study and practice them off available original recording and performance videos, with the goal of recreating their style and composition stroke by stroke.
- For both originals and covers, I'll sometimes compose the drum lines on sheet music, depending on the complexity and structural requirements of the music. Painstaking at times, but worth it.
Influencing Acts:
Jeff Beck
Herbie Hancock
Steely Dan
Yellowjackets
Miles Davis
The Who
Genesis
Earth Wind & Fire
Led Zepellin
The Grateful Dead
Instrument experience:
- Drums:
- Expert
- Other Percussion:
- Advanced
- Vocalist - Baritone:
- Moderate
EQUIPMENT
2020 Roland V-Drums TD-50 8 piece electronic (DW hardware, Roland monitor)
1993 Tama 9 piece (dual bass, hi-hat and rack system, Simon Phillips model)
1976 Ludwig Stainless Steel 6 piece
Additional pedals, stands, special effects cymbals, percussion instruments, cases, drum platform.