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Send us Fan Mail  Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #29. My guest is south Florida drummer, Kevin Fruge' from the hard rock/heavy metal band Angels of War. Here's what you will hear in this podcast about Kevin: Opening track is a sneak peek from Angels of War upcoming release "LockDown" Growing up in southwest Louisiana and playing music His ability to pickup music...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #28. On this podcast,  we learn about the rise of rum in Scotland. Our guest is Jamie Smith of Jacobite Spirits. They are based in Glasgow, Scotland have been in business just a few short years and already taking the rum world by storm.   Here's the things we discuss in this podcast: Ho...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #27. My guest is Jim Donovan who  co-wrote the hit "Send me on my way" featured in many movies and shows, such as the movie Ice Age.  Jim was an original member and drummer for 3-time platinum band, Rusted Root and fronting the Sun King Warriors as lead singer and guitarist.  His m...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #26. . Our first podcast of 2021. My guest is drummer and multi-instrumentalist Harley Mitchell and our mid show featured rum is a Sherry Finished Rum from Copper Bottom Craft Distillery.   The opening track "Show Me" is from Harley's original band "Day 4" Here'...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #25. We made it through Jumanji 2020 and for the last show of the year some of our past guests come and join me via Zoom. We had everything from rummers to drummers and recap their podcasts, have a few laughs and of course drink some rum.  From starting this podcast 10 months ago, there&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #24.  Live podcast over Zoom my guest is Orlando, FL based drummer Mike Pinder. Mike's day can go from doing a wedding gig to a bar gig to performing at a theme park show. He talks about how the importance how the music and drums play an important part with the dancers/performers in sho...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #23 .  On this show my guest is good friend and meteorologist Mr. Tim Drum.  With a record breaking hurricane season this year, I figured let's talk about it with a guy named after the podcast. Here's the things we discuss in this podcast: At an early age he was  bitten by the weat...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #22.  We're at Live Music Community studios and my guest on the podcast is from the UK but now resides here in sunny Florida, Rees Bridges.  Rees is a session drummer and the drummer with the Grammy award winning band Dirty Vegas and who's toured the world playing with top musician...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #21. On this podcast, I catch up over Zoom with Eric Sundeen another fellow Drum Dojo alumni In this episode like the ones with Scott, Shayne and Ryan, I talk about he found about the Drum Dojo. He tells us how he got into drums and some pretty important performances while in high school tha...

Send us Fan Mail In episode #20 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits. Live on location at the Pirate Heads backyard resort. Today's guest I think is like the rum version of the most interesting man in the world. Arrrrr you ready for our first podcast with a rummer and drummer, Johnny Ringo aka Captain Ringo or the chief pirate in charge. Johnny Ringo is the founder of Code...

Send us Fan Mail In episode #19 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits. I pull up to the bar with Charles McCann, owner and head chef of Nitrogen Bar, Grill and Sushi. Nitrogen is located in Jupiter, FL about a hour north of Miami. We also sample some Pampero Aniversario and The Real McCoy rum. Here's the things we discuss in this podcast: How Charles got into culinary and re...

Send us Fan Mail Hey all, it's Paul from Drums and Rums. Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #18. On this podcast from July, I catch up over Zoom with Scott Stanton a fellow Drum Dojo alumni In this episode, Scott and I talk about he found about the Drum Dojo from Facebook drum group. Like myself, Scott wasn't as familiar with country music or Jim Riley's music background....

Send us Fan Mail In episode #17 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits. In this episode, I catch up with Jamey Bennett of Royal Ruckus. Jamey and I first crossed paths when I was in an acoustic project then a few years later he hit me up about performing live with him. We met up to discuss while checking out Biz Markie at an end of season equestrian party. Since then I've bac...

Send us Fan Mail In episode #16 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits. In this episode, if you watch online drum videos then you will know our guest. With 1.6M Youtube subscribers 1.6M Facebook and  700k Instagram followers. Drumeo founder and CEO Jared Falk. I've been watching Drumeo videos for few years and they always provide great free short little lessons as well as the...

Send us Fan Mail In episode #15 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits. We're away from the drum shack as part of our Rummer Time series. It's was our first podcast recorded live outside out on the patio of the new Twisted Tuna in Jupiter, Florida On this podcast our guest is Brad Brock, singer/songwriter and host of the “Jams and Cocktails” podcast. Brad is a one man ba...

Send us Fan Mail This episode my guest/co-host is Craig Cohen. We went to high school together and were into a bunch of bands from the late 80's and early 90's. So I thought it'd be a fun show to have a where are the drummers of these bands today. Craig and I also catch up and troll down memory lane from this time frame in our lives. We split a list of 10-12 bands and did some resea...

Send us Fan Mail This episode, we're on the road again. Part of our Rummertime series. I finally got a chance to catch up with Copper Bottom Craft Distillery founder and head distiller, Jeremy Craig. They are a local owned family business that not only makes great rum and vodka, but they are part of the community. Most recently they received lots of coverage when they started producing hand s...

Send us Fan Mail This episode, we're on the road. Part of our Rummertime series. I stopped by Daytona Beach Drum Center and caught up with Dan Grabski the owner and founder. I've stopped at Dan's place every so often while visiting family in the Daytona area. Dan and I chat about how the drum center came about, what a drum business like his can offer to drummers and about his curren...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast Rene Rivera joins me again as co-host to chat with David Raouf. Better known as rDavidr online. You may have seen David on Drumeo or collaboration videos with Casey Cooper, Juan "Carlito" Mendoza or Steven Taylor, but you've probably caught one of his videos on his YouTube channel. We chat about all sorts of things including drumming, how he became a...

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast I sit down with good friends Tyler Kulik and Justin Hucker. Both are instructors at Live Music Community, a music school here in Palm Beach county, FL. Tyler is the drum instructor at the school and Justin is the owner/operator. Both are musicians in the local south Florida scene where Tyler is the drummer for Butch and the Fat Doobs, a south Florida punk/rock band...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a few weeks since our last podcast with Juan Mendoza. Well life sometimes gets in the way, but we're back to talk about taking the podcast on the road. With things starting to open up, we'll visit various drum shops, distilleries, studios, and drummers/musiciains. Time to get out of the drum shack and meet some interesting people talk about how their backb...

Send us Fan Mail Where the backbeats meet the spirits. On this podcast episode number 8, it's a special one. So Rene Rivera is back to help me co-host for this guest. I also want to thank another Drums and Rums alumni, Dave Bloom for connecting us with our guest. Someone with 61,000 Instagram followers, 22,000 followers on Facebook and 46,000 YouTube subscribers with that many people interest...

Send us Fan Mail In episode #7 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits. My guest is Shayne McGuire of Nashville by ways of Detroit. We met at Jim Riley's drum dojo back in December 2019. Shayne talks about what it's like to land in Nashville as a drummer and work his way into the scene on Broadway.  He's currently backing original music, Cima. They are a blues/Funk/R...

Send us Fan Mail In episode #6 of Drums and Rums, where the backbeats meet the spirits. We get back to adding rum to the show with some Havana Club Anejo Clasico. My guest is Dave Bloom. He's an accomplished live and studio drummer, family guy and accredited educator. He has students of all ages and does lessons in person and online. He also does a daily live show on Facebook We talk about hi...

Send us Fan Mail In our first live stream podcast, I catch up with Ryan Tremblay. We met at Jim Riley's Drum Dojo weekend back in December 2019. Ryan's a husband, father of triplets, International Christian Recording Artist  and Touring & Session Drummer. I ask how he got into music, music career, and plans for a move to Nashville. He's a multi-instrumentalist where he sings, pl...