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- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
We always feel pretty creative as far as writing songs. We write them together; we just get in a room, or on occasion in Flea's garage. We just sort of improvise, like jazz musicians.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's really the thing that got me into playing a lot - getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.
- Nov 07, 2020
The Meatbats are a throwback band.
- Nov 07, 2020
I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family time is really important to me.
- Desert
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm being a dad and a good husband.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020