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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing instruments before I started making beats, and I was never the best guitarist or the best pianist or the best drummer. And when I started making beats, I was not the best beatmaker, and when I started making hooks, I was not the best vocal melody person. When I first started rapping, I wasn't the best rapper at all.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dance to the beat of a different drummer.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you know, I played a little trumpet with Elvis. I overdub a few drum licks here and there on a session, but I'm not a drummer by any means.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I create my own lyrics. I have a great band. I have a drummer from East Berlin.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I needed to leave Dream Theater was because I didn't want to end my career as just the drummer in one band.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be a great drummer to be the most important guy in the band.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to tour with this band. I was a drummer. I would tour a bunch for about 10 months out of the year and act for about two months. I would make what I needed from acting and would stretch it out.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first rock band was called Mike and the Majestics. I was about twelve, and my older sister Kathy was the manager. There were three of us: me and a friend on guitars and a drummer. We were young, but we played for a lot of fraternity parties, plugging both guitars and a microphone into one little amplifier.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't get anything out of an orchestra if I have the 10 best guitarists, but I don't have a pianist or a drummer.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'
- Dated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sonic Youth played one show before we even had a drummer. It was just me, Kim, and Thurston. The lights slowly went down, and the set was just 30 minutes of feedback.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.
- Son
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- Nov 07, 2020
My son is my drummer.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, we didn't have our original drummer on our last record. And most of that album was not played as a band in the studio. It was mostly the world of computers and overdubs. There was very few things played live or worked out as a band.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a musician, either a guitarist or a drummer. I guess my dreams were in the entertainment industry, and I landed somewhere along there.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was probably when I met Jeff Hamilton, the drummer I've been working with for the last 20 years. He's the one who brought Ray Brown to hear me sing at a restaurant in my hometown.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a drummer living in Los Angeles in 1990. I had finished music school and was playing with a band. It wasn't going as well as it should have been.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in music and making movies about musicians, but my own experiences, and doing what it felt like for me to be a drummer? Nah, I wasn't interested in that.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often thought that my background in rock 'n' roll has gone to waste in film work. My background was that I was a rock 'n' roll drummer and I don't think I used drums in my first ten years of film scoring.
- Mother
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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.
- Fingertips
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- Nov 07, 2020
One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A drummer is usually like the backbone.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At our house, we'd always open presents with our Christmas records playing. 'Little Drummer Boy' was one of my favorites when I was a kid because it was about a kid.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
- Punk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
- Nov 07, 2020