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Drumming is my middle name.
You say ‘African music’ and you think ‘tribal drumming.’ But there’s a lot of African music that’s like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
When I’m drumming, I’m not thinking about much.
All my best drumming, I’m sure, has never been recorded.
For real, some of my favorite music is Mexican. It’s something about the bassline and the drumming. I can’t even speak Spanish, but that’s probably why I like it so much.
There’s a lot of personality in Lars’s drumming. That’s what makes it unique.
Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.
I’ve always seen my drumming as lyrical anyway.
When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.
Sorry, no, I’m never satisfied with my drumming.
The drum records that I like are ones on which the drumming didn’t repeat itself. The players didn’t stick to a format or formula.
The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to… take yourself out of the game.
I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.
It took a thing like my father’s death to make me decide that I actually wanted to pursue drumming.
There was always a guitar hanging around the house when I was a kid. It was a much lower impact instrument than me playing the drums, which is what I really wanted to do. My mother put a stop to the drumming.
For Slipknot, I’d say drumming is only 50 or 60 percent of the job. The rest of it is who you are and what your personality is.
At the time I learned drums, I wanted to be the drummer of Hanson. I wanted to be this guy because he was so young, and he was already drumming in the band, you know, so I just wanted to be like him. And later, I discovered hip-hop music at boarding school.
With the Neal Morse Band, we’re doing progressive music with a harder edge; it’s a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it’s more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.
Probably some of the most impressive drumming I’ve done is on the ‘Far Beyond Driven’ record.
In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter’s house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.
But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we’ve only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.
That’s where I learned, basically, all my skills from the drumming that I do – most of my style comes straight from death metal.
I was really into motocross. I started racing when I was 10 years old and did very, very well. That was my dream, if anything, more than drumming.
Had I joined a straight rock band, I’m sure my drumming would be a little bit different right now.
It’s interesting. I’ve known quite a few good athletes that can’t begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
The passing of John Bonham… Let’s just put it… Before we say, ‘the passing of John Bonham,’ the introduction of John Bonham on the first album and ‘Good Times Bad Times,’ it changes drumming overnight.
I grew up drumming but had to put it on the back burner because of basketball.
My drumming is always an experiment.
Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It’s a really simple instrument, but it’s really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you – you can play it in your room, in an airport. It’s very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.
Drumming is a real part of my live show, and I like to do it because so many people aren’t expecting me to go and do it.
