Crash Bang Boom Podcast!

Founder of A & F Drum Co ,Ramy Antoun talks about the challenges of manufacturing drums during COVID, the inadvertent origins of the A&F as well s what he thought was missing in modern drum design, the varying wood types and layers for the plies of there wooden drums, their patented lug design & brass rims, Ramy’s approach in design predicated on being a player first and designer secon...

Drummer Colanthony Humphry of Toronto Punk quartet The OBGMS talks about staying productive amidst Covid restrictions, working with producer/engineer Dave Shiffman on their new record “the Ends”, realizations about prepping oneself prior to recording, the stigma around listening to rock and how the OBGMs came to be a band, Canadian bands as influences, recounting the first OBGMs show and one of th...

Drummer Jordan Rodriguez of Boston Mass. Harborlights talks about the many canceled shows of 2020, self booking tours, playing strange house shows in rural towns, his custom Q Drum Kit, his love for Gojira, the live production spectacle of band Muse, recording drums for Isolation Ritual at God City Studios and the acoustic room sounds of the rooms there, recounting some of our favorite Kurt Ballou...

Drummer Lev Weinstein of Krallice, Anicon, Woe, & Pyrolatrous talks about the absurdity that was his “Levisalooza” birthday show featuring all his bands, the unorthodox workflows with Krallice, what he’s been working on in the absence of touring, keeping up with double bass chops, not psyching oneself out during shows, garden hose metaphors, hypochondriacal neurosis, instances where the studen...

Scott Jenkins, Co-owner of Jenkins Martin Dum Co talks about the wild origins of the spun fiber glass shells and the connections with Allen Blaemire and legendary Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine, the hands-on process(s) of finalizing the shells, the mysterious amounts of recordings the original Blaemire kits ended up on, determining rims, tom mounts, and lugs, working with drummers Bryan St Pere,...

Drummer, Drum Tech and founder of Q Drum Co.- Jeremy Berman talks about the effects of Covid on the music/touring/rental/backline & drum manufacturing industry, the origins of Q Drums, beginning with his time with Orange County Drum and Percussion, the one-off design that ultimately lead to a series of kits with the company, their patented steel shells and riveting process’, fine tuning bearin...

Drummer Chris Hornbrook talks about the history of Poison the Well starting out in the late 90's and some of the bands they played with, looking up to Chris Pennie and Ken Schalk’s drumming, the challenges of touring in the winter as a band from south Florida, working with a Swedish production super-team on two of their records vs working with Steve Evetts on The Tropic Rot, his work with Big...

Drummer Andrew Gormley of Rorschach, Kiss it Goodbye, Shai Hulud, Playing Enemy and more talks about collective play-through videos during Covid, the origins of Rorschach and some of their tours/DIY/punk ethos, playing all ages shows at ABC No Rio, Rorschach’s tour with Born Against , going to shows at L’more’s and CBGB’s growing up, our mutual fascination with Voivod, The Melvins, Slint, Jesus Li...

Deadguy drummer Dave Rosenberg talks about his move from New Jersey to San Francisco to Amsterdam, studying with Sonny Igoe and later his son Tommy Igoe, the origins of Deadguy and some of the bands they toured with, collecting Amphetamine Reptile records and the powerful experience of seeing Unsane live, incorporating non-cliche grooves in heavy music, recounting tours with Doc Hopper as well as...

Daughters drummer Jon Syverson stopped by the #CBBP for a lil’ double dipping to talk the pro’s and con’s of dealing with a pandemic and rekindling his love for drums and music, the unforeseen trajectory of Daughters album ”You Won’t Get What You Want”, Jon doubling as tour manager and drummer, the aches, pains and hospital trips on the tour, European noise ordinances, adjusting to longer sets, ch...

HUM drummer Bryan St. Pere talks about their new record Inlet that was 22 years in the making and the timing of releasing it during a pandemic/social unrest, touring as a young mans sport, the trippy experience of watching HUM play live with Jason Gerken on drums, why he doesn’t play to click tracks, his love for his Jenkins Martin Kit, Bonham, Peart & Copeland as influences, the challenges of...

Moon Destroys (and former Royal Thunder/Brother Hawk) drummer Evan Diprima talks about the process of working with ex-Torche guitarist Juan Montoya on the new Moon Destroys EP featuring Troy Sanders(Mastodon) and Paul Masvidal(Cynic) on vocals, the 12 day in-studio writing session that ultimately yielded the record as well as future plans for the next record, vintage drums vs modern drums,, 80’s &...

Drummer Bobby Caldwell talks re-grouping Captain Beyond and recreating the magic of those early records, re-booking canceled CB tours, the magical experience of seeing Joe Morello with dave Brubeck when he was 10 years old, competing in rudiment competitions prior to playing the kit, and leading a military marching band, the “bubble” that Captain Beyond lived in while forming, writing and recordin...

Drumming juggernaut Bobby Jarzombek talks about the unexpected time he used to track the new Fates Warning record, his musical family with his two brothers and the 10 minute medley’s they would play growing up, his first kit, his journey through drum books that ultimately shaped his playing, the lost art of open/close hi hat playing and our mutual fascination with David Garibaldi, Catholic School...

Derek Roddy talks his expansive snake collection, listening to crickets n’ frogs, our three way-love for ZZ Top, his musical family & love of Buddy Rich, Gene Hoglan, Billy Cobham & Vinnie Colauita, the brilliance of Pete Sandoval and what he did with the “white noise” of Napalm Death, trying to find one’s “sound” with particular tunings and at particular BPM’s, more talks on #triggers, ho...

Revocation drummer Ash Pearson made a second appearance on the CBBP where we talked about Revocation recording, releasing, and touring on The Outer Ones, the amazing studio in which he recorded the drums, his tips for warming up and staying in shape vs getting back in shape prior to a tour cycle, his thoughts on maintaining a zen like state while playing intense music, thoughts on bass drum trigge...

Drummers Angel Cotte of Demolition Hammer & Them, John Longstreth of Origin, and instructor at the Collective of music in NY Tobias Ralph talk the ways we’re all dealing with the lockdown, where we’ve gone (if anywhere), practice regimens and indoor make-shift set-up’s, cognitive sharpening, teaching remote lessons, the real danger of cover 19 being the waste line and liver, Longstreth’s cooki...

Drummer Tim Dow reflects on his time in Shiner, specific music he’s been digging; Deerhoof & Deftones, the Police and Steely Dan as young influences, the appeal of John Bonham, the first time he heard Metallica, his first kit and the double bass kit he traded it for, the drums used on Splay and Lula Divinia w/ Shiner, conceiving drum parts as a player vs a producer/engineer, ALMOST being Failu...

Drummer Jason Gerken talks the daily redundancy of Covid life, tuning vistalite kits, playing with HUM and their stage volume, our mutual love for 70’s records, memories of his Dad and picking up the sticks at a young age, playing his step dad’s kit and trying to play drum parts he’d hear on the radio after running down four flights of stairs, prodigal drumming infants in the age of instantaneous...

Drummer/Clinician/Teacher Todd Sucherman talks about down time amidst COVID-19, the Styx record he would have recorded already, his incredible drum set and snare collection, getting his home studio together and navigating the engineering role himself for the first time, music, comedy and food as the pillars of his musical family, playing since the age of two, his fathers kit & cymbals he inher...

Drummer Dave Bland talks about canceled tours amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, delving into Virgil Donati’s drum book, transitioning from single bass to double bass and working hand techniques that are an amalgamation of John Longstreth and Mike Mangini, playing absurdly hot shows and learning to breath threw it all, playing with Mr Bungle, stories of witnessing Trap Them live and one of the more out...

John Tempesta talks about drum teching for Charlie Banante of Anthrax, joining Exodus, playing in Testament, how he joined White Zombie and the meteoric rise of the Astrocreep 2000 record as well as the experience in touring with Pantera, hanging at Vinny Paul’s clubhouse, meeting his drumming idols, his love for drummer Cozy Powell, joining Helmet and learning tons of John Stanier’s fills, how he...

Drummer Alex Bent of Trivium talks about the hermetic life in the wake of CV-19 and trying to stay positive, the recording of their new record "What the Dead Men Say" due out April 24th and some of the canceled tours associated with the pandemic, the incredible recording experience of tracking drums in Dave Grohl’s studio with Josh Wilbur and the frankenstein kit he used for the record,...

Drummer Matt Greiner of August Burns Red talks about canceled tours and coping with the associated delays of their new record Guardians due out April4 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, farming with his family in rural Pensilvania, tractor talk, his holy trinity of drum process’; creation, memorization & application plus how he applies it to the pre-production process with ABR, local drummers that...

Drummer Phil Puleo and I caught up before the last show at St Vitus bar in Brooklyn prior to the city-wide quarantine to talk about his new band Human Impact featuring members of Unsane, Swans & Cop Shoot Cop, the canceled shows and tour due to COVID-19, the NY scene with Cop Shoot Cop in the late 80's/early 90's, kindred spirits in NY Band Barkmarket and the tour they did together,...