Live From My Drum Room! ®

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A fabulous chat with the great Bob Henrit! Besides his stellar career as the drummer for The Roulettes, Argent, The Kinks and more, Bob was a first call session drummer in London in 1960s and 1970s. Bob is also an historian on the London music scene during its heyday. Bob  and I covered everything from his friendship with Keith Moon, to hi...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com My old friend Nate Morton joined me live from the set of NBC's "The Voice" to talk about his incredible drumming career. Going back to his childhood influences, his time at Berklee College of Music and living in Boston, to moving to Los Angeles. Nate offers some great advice and inspiration on what it takes to make it as a p...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com My guests were Dave Mattacks, Gary Astridge, Brendan Lazar and Todd Little. We did a deep dive into Ringo's drums and cymbals, specifically seen on the film "Get Back" and heard on "Let It Be" and "Abbey Road." But we also went back to the early and mid 1960s.  https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.c...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Part 4 of Remembering Charlie Watts. My guests are Jim Keltner, Vinnie Colaiuta, Charley Drayton, Pete Thomas, Anton Fig and Aaron Comess. We shared some beautiful stories about Charlie and even pivoted to Ringo, as we drummers often do. Hold on to your hat because this is a great one!  https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.com/c/John...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A funny and informative chat with legendary Drum Techs, Harry McCarthy and Jeff Chonis. Two of my oldest friends and two of the best drum techs in the business. We covered their early days in the business, the beginning of Drum Paradise in Los Angeles, Harry moving to Nashville to open Drum Paradise Nashville and some of their clients, suc...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Legendary drummer Simon Kirke joined me for a fabulous conversation. Simon and I discussed the London music scene in the 1960s, "Free" and the formation of "Bad Company" in 1973. His friendships with John Bonham and Keith Moon. Led Zeppelin and Bad Company manager, Peter Grant and some great insights on his drums and re...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A great chat with my old friend, Rich Mangicaro! Rich and I discussed his 34 years in the Drum Industry, including almost 20 years as the former Director of Artist Relations at Paiste Cymbals, and his 10 years as Marketing and Artist Relations for Gon Bops percussion, as well as his career as a professional touring and recording musician....

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Part 2 of The Drums Of Charlie Watts, with Don McAulay and Richard King. Besides geeking out on Charlie's drums, we covered a lot of great information about Charlie and his gear.   https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.com/c/JohnDeChristopherLiveFromMyDrumRoom

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Shawn and I talked about his incredible 30 year run as drummer for Saturday Night Live, moving to New York in the 1980s and getting his start. His staggering list of recording credits, his recording process and much more! https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.com/c/JohnDeChristopherLiveFromMyDrumRoom

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Legendary drummer Kenney Jones and I talked about his early days with The Small Faces and later Faces. His drum solo on Rod Stewart's "I Know I'm Losing You," his epic drumming on the Faces "Stay With Me" and Rolling Stones "It's Only Rock N Roll (But I Like It)" and how he came to play on it, a...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A great chat with my old friend and Drum Industry icon, Jim Catalano. Jim shared many great stories and lots of great insight on his long and successful career, including his 36 years at Ludwig Drums!  https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.com/c/JohnDeChristopherLiveFromMyDrumRoom

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A fabulous discussion with drumming legends, Simon Kirke (Bad Company/Free) Steve Gorman (Black Crowes/Trigger Hippy), Gregg Bissonette (Ringo Starr All Star Band) and Don McAulay (Charlie's drum tech and currently Steve Jordan's drum tech). Lots of great and funny stories!  https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.com/c/JohnDe...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com An inspiring and uplifting conversation with my old friend, Sandy Gennaro. Sandy talks about auditioning for Rod Stewart in 1980, the ups and downs and his path to becoming the successful drummer he is today. Working with Pat Travers, Cyndi Lauper, The Monkees, Bo Diddley, his long tenure teaching at The Drummers Collective and much more! ...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Part 2 of Remembering Charlie Watts. A fabulous and often hilarious discussion with Steve Smith, Kenny Aronoff, Dave Mattacks, Chad Smith, Mickey Curry, Shawn Pelton, Clem Burke and Don McAulay. Please check out "Part 1" if you haven't already and stay tuned for "Part 3"!  Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel htt...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com The first of a series of episodes devoted to Remembering Charlie Watts. A huge thanks to my friends Steve Gadd, Kenney Jones, Rick Marotta, Stan Lynch, Michael Shrieve, Andy Newmark, Steve Maxwell, John Ferraro and Yard Gavrilovic. The laughs and stories were non-stop! Stay tuned for Part 2! Don't forget to subscribe!  https://livefro...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A fantastic and fun chat with my dear friend, Steve White. Steve talks about becoming a professional drummer at age 14 and his incredible career with The Style Council including playing Live Aid in 1985 at age 20, Paul Weller, Oasis, The Who, being an educator and much more. We also talked about his friendship with drumming legends Mitch M...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com I caught up with my old friend and phenomenal drummer, the incredible Mike Mangini! Mike discussed teaching and keeping busy during Dream Theater's downtime, traveling together on his first clinic tour in 1996, his love of education, practice and warm up routines, old friends Dennis Chambers and Dave Weckl, and much more!  https://liv...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Note: This was Episode 46, though I mistakenly introduced it as Episode 47. A fun and informative chat with Chad Cromwell. Chad discussed his long and successful career including his work with Neil Young, CSNY, Joe Walsh and Peter Frampton. Some great insights into his role as a session drummer, working with Kenny Chesney and much more.  h...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A very special and enjoyable chat with one of my drumming heros, the legendary Joe Vitale! Joe and I discussed his incredible 50+ year career as the groove behind rock icons, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, CSNY and The Eagles, including stories behind making all those iconic records. We also discussed his excellent book, "Backstage Pass&q...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A great chat with my old pal Jeremy Stacey. Jeremy talked about playing drums and keyboards with Prog legends "King Crimson," his influences and recording. We discussed the upcoming fall 2021 King Crimson US tour and also his incredible collection of vintage drums and cymbals.  https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.com/c/Joh...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com My guest today is the legendary Michael Shrieve. Michael and I discussed his incredible career, including joining "Santana" at age 19 to record Santana's first record, and performing in front of 500,000 people at Woodstock shortly after his 20th birthday, and his legendary drum solo on "Soul Sacrifice." We also dis...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com The great Eddie Bayers talks about his incredible career as a first call session drummer in Nashville, having played on 300 Gold and Platinum records. Eddie talks about his early days in Nashville his mentor, the late great Larrie Londin, his amazing career and what he's up to now.  https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.youtube.com/c/Joh...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A fun and informative chat with my dear friend and fabulous drummer, Ash Soan! Ash talks about maintaining his busy recording schedule during lockdown, getting great drum sounds and engineering his own tracks at his studio The Windmill, his years as the drummer on "The Voice UK" and much more! https://livefrommydrumroom.com www.y...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com Episode 1. The maiden voyage of Live From My Drum Room! A fun Facebook Live conversation with my dear friend, the one and only, Steve Gadd. Steve and I get into several topics including his influences, the New York session scene back in the day, Steely Dan's "Aja," Chick Corea, running, jokes, drum exercises, lots of laughs...

Send me a text and please visit www.livefrommydrumroom.com A fun chat with two of the best drum techs in the business. Don McAulay who worked for Charlie Watts of "The Rolling Stones" since 2012, and Yard Gavrilovic who's worked for Steve Gadd "Eric Clapton," Ginger Baker "Cream" Zak Starkey "The Who," Charlie Watts, and many more.  https://livefrommydr...