Drum Channel Podcast

Welcome to this week’s Drum Channel Podcast featuring Billy Amendola and Liberty DeVitto. This week Liberty joins Billy in the studio to talk about Muscle Shoals session legend Roger Hawkins. DeVitto, who’s played on over 150,000 selling albums with Billy Joel, listens and talks about all things drums and drumming with Amendola on recordings by Hawkins as well as their own recording sessions and m...

Welcome to Drum Channel with Billy Amendola. This week I’m speaking with not only an award-winning singer/songwriter, author, keyboardist, and A-game touring and recording drummer, he is one of my favorite people on the planet, Joe Vitale. Vitale has been close pals with his boss of 55 years, and still tours and records with him to this day, the legendary Joe Walsh. (Vitale co-wrote “Rocky Mountai...

Welcome to this week's Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola.  This podcast features Gordy Knudtson, most known as the touring drummer with the Steve Miller band for the past thirty years. Gordy, recently retired from touring to spend more time at home and taking care of his company  GK-Music.com , the first company to make and market hearing protection headphones for musicians called DrumPhone...

This week’s Drum Chanel Podcast with host Billy Amendola features session and touring drummer Alvin Taylor. Taylor started his professional career at the young age of fourteen, touring with Little Richard, where he played drums for Richard, and featured Jimi Hendrix on guitar and keyboardist Billy Preston, who Alvin would have a lifetime experience both musically as well as a mentor. Years later P...

Hi and welcome to an exclusive Drum Channel podcast featuring three top-notch educators and working drummers, Frank Bellucci, Joe Bergamini, and Jim Mola. Join me, Billy A, as three friends share their experiences and words of wisdom about being on both sides of the fence in this “drum world” we all live in. Listen as we discuss tips on the importance of reading music, staying professional, workin...

Welcome to the Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola. This week’s guest is one of NYC’s first-call-session-drummers of the 70s-80s and beyond, Allan Schwartzberg. Schwartzberg, who started playing Jazz at a young age, went on to record drums on AM/FM radio hits; “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” (Tony Orlando & Dawn), “Cats in the Cradle” (Harry Chapin), “Working My Way Back to You,” (The Spinners), “Funky...

Welcome to this weeks Drum Channel Podcast with host Billy Amendola and his guest Nick Gross.  Nick is a co-founder, along with his partner Travis Mills as part of the duo’s band Girlfriends. They are currently touring to promote their latest album, “(e)motion sickness,” as well as the bands previous self-titled debut album. (Which accumulated over thirty million streams)  Not only a leading band...

Hello DC friends! This week's podcast with Billy A features one of the youngest, most talented up comers, the “Rock Angel” Brooke Colucci. Brooke C is nineteen years old with years of life experiences since posting her first video at twelve years old. A year later, her cover of a Tool’s “Forty-Six & 2” hit over 12 million viewers. A co-founding member of the 4-piece young rock band Plush featuring...

Hello Drum Channel family! Welcome to this week’s podcast with Billy Amendola & Sheryl Crow/session musician Fred Eltringham. In this episode, Fred goes through his early years of paying his dues and moving between his birthplace, Philadelphia, to attending Berklee College in Boston, to gigging in NYC and California, then back to NYC, and now since 2007, residing in Nashville with his wife and chi...

Husband, Father, Brother, Friend, Hooligan, and Smooth as Silk, Eric Hernandez is my special guest this week on Drum Channel. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and moving to Hawaii, Eric started playing drums at four years old. Learning life lessons and working with his dad Peter’s band since he was a youngster, which also a few years later featured his five-year-old little brother Bruno, both went on t...

Welcome to Drum Channels podcast — in this episode, we’re honored to introduce you to our guest, Tony Brock of the 70s supergroup The Baby’s. After huge success and going their separate ways, in the 80s Tony recorded and toured with Rod Stewart for close to fourteen years. Before the world shut down, Tony and this last line-up wrote new songs for a new album and planed an upcoming tour for 2022 in...

This week’s Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola features Ed Greene. Those of you who may have vaguely heard his name, or don’t know much about his career, are in for a treat. Greene, up there with all the top studio drummers of the 70s, is a session legend. He’s one of the most polite and humble musicians on the planet, and his list of number ones and top-forty records is mind-blowing. Beside...

Welcome to this week's Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola and his special guest Jerry Shirley of Humble Pie. The band recently celebrated the release of its 50th anniversary remaster of their 1972 album “Smokin’.” Billy and the classic rock legend discuss Jerry’s early years with the band, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Fastway, Jerry’s days as a radio DJ; interviewing Paul McCartney, going...

Starting his career at a young age, Taylor Carroll is a Grammy nominated and critically acclaimed musician, producer, songwriter, vocalist and new member of the nineties SoCal hit band Lit. (original drummer Allen Shellenberger died  from brain cancer in 2009)  With a background in music spanning over two decades, Carroll’s credit as a drummer includes live and recorded work with Taylor Swift, Pil...

Zac Hanson has been a star in the music business since he was a youngster. He and his brothers Taylor and Isaac, known as Hanson, have sold over 16 million records worldwide and have had three Top 20 albums.

This week’s Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola features Adam Box, from the Grammy winning country band Brothers Osborne.

This week's Drum Channel Podcast Season 2 debut with Billy Amendola features the founder of Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp David Fishof, Bon Jovi’s Tico Torres, and a few special guests including bassist Tony Franklin, Apple Records alumni May Pang, and Pier’s Plasskit, with Manny’s Music Holly Goldrich, and Barry Gibb tour manager, Carlos Guzman. This special “live podcast “ from the Florida Rock and...

Jonny Scott is the drummer for the popular Scottish band Chvrches. Jonny started out playing professionally on the Glasgow indie scene with momentum quickly building in his career towards joining British-American indie rock band The Kills. In 2013 Jonny played drums on Chvrches’ first album The Bones of What You Believe, featuring on the tracks “​Gun” and "Night Sky.” Jonny ​has been drumming live...

Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez's professional drumming career began at age seventeen with a USO tour to South Vietnam. At nineteen, he was playing in local big bands, the LACC Studio Jazz Band and the Si Zenter Big Band. During the same time, Hernandez played in a variety of pit orchestras and backing acts, like Bob Hope, Billy Daniels and Gordon McCray. In the 1970s, he played with The Helen Reddy Band...

Virgil Donati is one of the world’s most well known drummers and drum clinicians. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, where he also launched his career. He got his first drum set aged only two and literally hasn’t put the sticks down since. Since the mid-nineties he has been a household name. Residing in Los Angeles, Virgil is travelling the world as a international drumming superstar, as well as...

Drummer JP Bouvet of Lakeville, MN now based in New York is a Berklee alumni who has very much taken control of his career. JP, once won the Guitar Center Drum, beating over 4,500 contestants for the number one spot. After Berklee, JP moved to New York where he works as a session player and an educator. JP runs his own educational drumming resources called JP Bouvet Music where he now has over 400...

David Stanoch is a drummer and educator based in Minneapolis, MN. A student of masters Elliot Fine, Alan Dawson, Max Roach, Jeff Hamilton, Chad Wackerman, he has built an eclectic musical reputation performing with artists from the worlds of jazz, rock, R&B, Broadway, motion picture and television including the Airmen of Note, Jackson Browne, Hiram Bullock, Charo, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Rich...

Drummer for the band Chicago, Walfredo Reyes Jr. combines the rich history of Latin, Afro-Cuban and World Percussion with the drum set. For Walfredo Reyes, Jr., fusing the two disciplines has been his driving passion. In fact, by blazing this path, Reyes has challenged the technical levels of our instrument. Born in Cuba, raised in Puerto Rico, and culminating his musical style in the U.S., Wally...