Drum Channel Podcast

Hi, Billy Amendola here. Welcome to Drum Channel! East Long Island is in the house today! My buddies Joe Franco (The Good Rats, Twisted Sister, Widowmaker with Dee Snider, & Beatstreet Studio owner) and Blue Oyster Cults Jules Radino, who’s been playing with the legendary band for twenty-years, came back to Brooklyn to talk drums and drumming and share career advice and more. Let’s welcome Jules a...

Hello everyone,   Billy Amendola here on Drum Channel and I’m excited to introduce you to a drummer/multi-instrument from Israel, Yoni Madar. (whose handle on Instagram is Johnny Mathar)   I’ve been watching his videos on social media for almost close to a year before I reached out to say hello, and let me tell you, if you haven’t seen him play, you must look him up after listening to this podcast...

Hello everyone Billy Amendola here; Welcome to Drum Channel.  Today my guest is a young up-and-coming drummer Molly Rose.  Molly, born and raised in Northern California, took an interest in drums at four years old and at eight years old got her first drum set. At sixteen, she placed 2nd in the international “Hit Like A Girl” contest and, after graduating high school, moved to Los Angeles where she...

Hello everyone and welcome to “Billy’s Bubble” here on Drum Channel. Today’s guest is singer-songwriter, actress, TV personality, and Broadway star Debbie Gibson.  Debbie has released eleven studio albums, six compilation albums, one box set, and forty-six singles.  Gibson’s career goes back to 1986, while still in her early teenage years, writing and recording her debut Atlantic Records album Out...

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola and his guest Van Romaine.  Van has been touring the world (and in recent years as music director) with  Latin/pop superstar Enrique Iglesias for fourteen years.  In between you can find him recording and performing in a band with former Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse among others.  Let’s welcome Van to the Drum Channel eas...

Hello again! Billy Amendola here on Drum Channel with my guest Aaron Comess of the Spin Doctors.  The Spin Doctors are one of America’s greatest bands. Formed over thirty-five years ago, the band still sells out shows and makes new recordings.  Let’s jump right in and welcome Aaron to the East Coast DC studio in Brooklyn, NY. 

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Drum Channel east coast studio in Brooklyn, NY. I’m Billy Amendola and my guest today is drummer/co-founder, and long-time-band-member of the band Living Colour since 1984. He’s no stranger to Drum Channel,  and   has been a previous guest with host Don Lombardi and is a favorite to our DC audience.   Will has won two Grammy Awards , one in 1989 for Best Hard Roc...

Hi everyone, welcome to this week’s Drum Podcast  with Billy Amendola and his guest Lou Santiago Jr.  Lou is another of what you could call one of Billy’s “students.” He didn’t need to teach him to play drums (he already had that down); Billy would proudly offer life/business advice over the years whenever asked.    Lou went from being in the military, studying at The Collective in NYC, to winning...

Hello everyone and welcome to the  Drum Channel  east coast studio in Brooklyn, NY with Billy Amendola and his two guests drummers Andrew Campanelli and PJ Howard from the  eight-piece-band The Revivalists.  The New Orleans band broke onto the scene in 2015 with their double platinum Billboard Hot 100 hit "Wish I Knew You." Since then, the band has had more than 800 million streams with hits such...

Hi everyone! Billy Amendola here. Welcome to the Drum Channel Podcast.    Today my guest is Robin Diaz. I’ve known Robin since he was very young man and I’ve watched him grow into one of the industry’s top hired guns and ghost drummers on hits you’ve heard but didn’t know he recorded.    I chat with Robin about his session and live work (He’s currently recording and touring with the band LIVE), hi...

Hello! Welcome to Drum Channel with Billy Amendola and his guests, percussionist Danny Reyes and drummer Chris Fryar of the Zac Brown Band.  Billy catches up with long-time official band members before they head out on tour for the summer and into the fall. The band has been on top of their game for ten-plus years, selling out stadiums and charting hits on both the country and pop charts.    Befor...

Hello and welcome to Drum Channel with your host Billy Amendola. For this episode, Billy chats with his long-time-pal, Rich Redmond. Since moving to Nashville from Connecticut more than twenty-five years ago, Rich is best know touring and recording with multi platinum country rocker Jason Aldean for nearly two decades. He has recorded over 30 #1 radio hits and has performed to millions of fans in...

Hello Drum Channel family! I’m Billy Amendola, and my guest today is best known as a TV star.    Nate Morton has been a drummer in house bands on television for most of his twenty five plus year career.    Nate and I go back almost as long. We first met when he was filming  Rockstar: Supernova  in 2006. That’s also when he first met drum tech and snare builder, Steve Morrison when Steevo was Tommy...

Hi Everyone! Welcome to an exclusive Drum Channel Podcast with drummer/singer/songwriter/actor/and super-cool-dude John Cowsill. John visited the East Coast Drum Channel Studio to chat with his buddy Billy Amendola about his early career with his family band, The Cowsills, his years with and now without The Beach Boys, his new music projects with his wife Vikki Peterson, and more. Enjoy.

Hi everyone! Welcome to show three of “Did You Know?” This special episode of Billy’s Bubble features Liberty and Billy sharing stories, humor, and the history of session greats Panama Francis and Hall of Fame drummer Earl Palmer. Let’s listen to a few songs together that Panama & Earl recorded, the artist they recorded with on those classics, and more. Enjoy!

Hi everyone, welcome to Drum Channel. I’m Billy Amendola, and joining me at the DC east-coast studio is Brianna Sig of the Philadelphia-based rock band Soraia.  Brianna and the band were in town for a promo tour to support their new single “Bloom,” and Brianna graciously stopped in before soundcheck to chat about being a band member, her early years, and more. 

Billy’s guest on Drum Channel Brian Tichy is one of rock music’s most in-demand-hired guns. Playing drums since he’s eight years old and teaching himself guitar four years later, Tichy went on to attend Berklee College of Music.  Shortly after graduating Brian went on to record and perform with Sass Jordon, Whitesnake, Foreigner, Slash’s Snakepit, Billy Idol, and front his own project BALL, in whi...

Hi everyone! This week the Drum Channel Podcast features Stanton Moore.  The New Orleans native and founding member of the band Galactic visited Billy Amendola at DC’s east coast studio to chat with his long-time buddy about drums and drumming, how he survived the pandemic, building a business team, and the famous New Orleans music venue Tipitina and more. Happy listening! 

Hello everyone! Welcome to Drum Channel . I’m Billy Amendola, and my guests in this segment are notable, versatile players and educators. Please welcome two of the finest Daniel Glass and Jason Gianni.  We talk to Daniel about his early days, his band Royal Crown Revue, his trio, and more.  Jason, a long time teacher and session musician tells us about his television and radio recordings, the Coll...

Our guest today Corky Laing recently celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday on January 26th, 2023. The Canadian drummer is not slowing down; he’s actively busy recording and performing all over the world.  Never resting on his laurels, Laing never stopped playing, and to this day, he continues to front his new band, record and write a new album, “Finnish Sessions,” and squeeze in live performances....

Hello, my friends; welcome to Drum Channel. Billy A. here with my guest Joan Jett’s Michael McDermott.   In 2022, Mike was part of the most successful arena tour we’ve seen the likes of in years.    We also discuss his previous band, The Bouncing Souls, and how becoming a Blackheart emerged.    McDermott and Jett are currently back out on the road sharing a tour with Bryan Adams. Let’s listen in....

Hello everyone, welcome to the  Drum Channel Podcas t! I’m Billy Amendola and my guest is Tucker Rule. You may know Tucker from the hard-rock-emo-band Thursday, formed in 1997 in New Jersey. The band has been considered an influence on the music scene in the 2000s, and is credited as forerunners of the emo/screaming vocal sound.  But, that was then and this is now and Tucker's new project L.S. Dun...

Hello everyone, welcome to Billy’s Bubble on Drum Channel . For this segment, we're going to talk with Clubhouse Studio Owner, Paul Antonell.  Paul, no stranger to the studio, found his passion for recording at sixteen years old and has gone on to work with Parliament-Funkadelic, Shawn Mendes, Post Malone, and Natalie Merchant, to name a few.  Paul built his state-of-the- art-studio on isolated hi...

Hi everyone! Billy Amendola and my guest today on Drum Channel east is still feeling the excitement of his past gig less than a week ago.    His phone and messages have been blowing up with congratulations and show of support non-stop and we’re excited he found the time to fill us in on what it was like to play the 2023 Super Bowl Half-Time Performance  with Rihanna.   We talk about his set-up, ge...

Hi everyone! Welcome to Drum Channel! I’m Billy Amendola, and my guest Dan LeRoy, has written what I would say is the most definitive book on the history of the drum machine and its importance to songwriting and musicians, and how that sound became acceptable to become the music heard around the world. In this segment, we’ll discuss his book “DANCING TO THE DRUM MACHINE“ (How Electronic Percussion...