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Send us Fan Mail Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #35 . Our second podcast for the celebration of Women's History Month is  Karen Hoskin, CEO and founder of Montanya Distillers. Since 2008, Montanya Rums have earned 24 gold, silver and double-gold medals, including “Best Rum in the World” at the World Rum Awards and “USA Rum of the Year” at the Berlin International Spirits Compet...

Send us Fan Mail Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #34.  It's March and it's Women's History Month and our guests will be women who are in the rum industry or those who are drummers.  So let's kick this celebration of Women's History Month with our first guest who's a drummer and also a multi instrumentalist, Shanance Gransam. She fell in love for the drum...

Send us Fan Mail Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #33. Socially distanced and masked, my guests are Justin Hucker, owner of Live Music Community (LMC), Hector Diaz bassist for the Americana /Celtic band Kill Billies and his son Gavin LMC student and drummer for the bands GUTS and Unemployed Youth. Here's what you will hear in this podcast : The opening track will be the debut of...

Send us Fan Mail Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #32. My guest is south Florida drummer, Erik Flinck from the band Martin County Electric. We kick off the show with a track of Erik performing  recorded live at the famous Square Grouper. Here's what you will hear in this podcast : We kick it off by shooting the s#$t of drummer stories How he got you into music at an early age and...

Send us Fan Mail Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #31.  My guest is rum enthusiast and UK based blogger, Alex of the The Rum Barrel.   Here's the things we discuss in this podcast: Introduction of  Alex and his website "The Rum Barrel" How Alex got into rum and encouraged by people in the industry to start blogging  How he developed nose/taste to describe rums His diver...

Send us Fan Mail  Where the backbeats meet the spirits. Episode #30.  My guest is North Jersey area Music Educator and Percussionist, Chris Bouvier.   Here's the things we discuss in this podcast: Drummers/musicians who have influenced him Growing up in a music house Performing at the Super Bowl Pursuing a degree in music at the University of Delaware We answer questions from the live podcast...

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...