Rich Redmond - Interview: Touring with Jason Aldean | CRASH Course to Success | Reading Music

hey everybody how's it going dan shinder here on drum talk tv coming to you from globe arizona where the f is that you ask i live here and i ask actually it's 100 miles east of phoenix up in the mountains and we're here with our guest today long time offender rich redmond's returning from nashville chime in in the comments with questions for rich and let us know where you're watching from rich how's it going man thanks for joining us i'm going to pull the show up here so i can watch it yeah i'm not watching it it's unbelievable to um be you know back in business man to see your smiling face and you know we we had this crazy zombie apocalypse that that stole some time from people and even before that you know we'd always see make a point to see each other at namm yeah but uh great to see you thanks for having me absolutely eager to get caught up a lot of things happening so you're still doing crash course you're still doing drumming in the modern world jason aldean's 10th album just came out you've been with him since you guys were rolling around in the back of a van and then you're going on tour i'll i'll throw it to you where do you want to start what do you want to report on first josh so much uh well hope everybody who is is uh healthy and coming out of this this whole crazy thing i'm sure everybody learned something about themselves um i was trying not to let the mosque grow under my feet during that time because we didn't we didn't tour for about a year and a half uh did some tv shows where i had to fly back and forth from l.a to nashville which is very interesting um but uh then last year uh last fall we did a three-month tour and it was so amazing you know when you when you don't see these people that you that finish your sentences and you you you know you've been riding around a 45-foot tube for the last you know 23 years together um it kind of you miss it you miss these people because you see them more than your blood relatives you know and it's just it was a mentally very anguishing you know it was it was tough it was tough i almost like have like a little ptsd from that whole thing but now we're back we're strong we're going to be touring this year this first part of this year we did um like i said you know jason had dropped his tenth record which is so very grateful it's very humbling to the fact that people follow that music album album tour after tour um which is a great thing to have in the music business to be steadily employed and it was a double record so it was 30 tracks it was kind of released the first 15 tracks and then another 15 tracks and we did all the cmds and the acms and the ihearts and the good morning americas and all that stuff and that is always so fun to do you know i never met a television show i didn't like and and then we're going to start going into rehearsals then we're going to do another live nation tour that's gonna take us from june to october so we are jazz man let's get by then you'll be sick of everybody again i'm just kidding just kidding cool um so what is different if anything about the 10th album from the last couple things people might be familiar with you know that has been put out on record and gone on tour is there anything different about the production about the music style you know is the lineup exactly the same what insight can you give us about the new album compared to the history of jason yeah i mean well you're lucky you know when you have 10 records spread out over the first record was recorded in 2004 so that's 16 17 18 years 17 of which we were one of which we were inactive so you take 17 years you know 10 and just it's like what is every year and a half every two years you know we're you know putting out a record and so music like everything you know grows involves it changes and nashville like anything it's like such a hot commodity right now it's like the new bachelorette capital of the world everybody's coming here from new york la atlanta you know everyone's moving to where you are or texas or florida or nashville and so we're getting this influx of all these creative types from the coasts and they're bringing their you know production methodologies and songwriting techniques to this songwriting capital of the world and finally at this point i would say in the last couple years you know jason's fortunate enough to be one of those artists where he has a sonic identity i mean you hear the guy's voice it's kind of that raspy baritone he's thinking about love and loss and heartache and everything that happens in middle america and that most but most people can relate to set to big drums and crunchy guitars and so he's got this you know sonic identity but he's also one of the i think few guys that can sing uh like a throwback r b song and a three chords in the truth like old rhinestone country song and then something more modern that's got loops in it stuff and then more of a southern rock you know detuned guitars very few artists i think that can cover that amount of ground and whose fan base will support that wide range of artistry and then also his fan base being people male and female 15 to 55 which is nearly impossible to do so i think we're just at a point where there's just this identity we're we're trying to grow and change but at the same time you know you give them give people what they want that similar product that they can kind of expect and but the melodies change and the stories change uh but thank god everybody's just still supporting it we're just we're just very happy and you must be having a great time playing to that variety of styles within that blended genre right i mean you're not just doing the same old thing all night there's all those different twists and turns that's got to be gratifying oh it's so fun and i just you know call all our friends at lp and like more more and more in the last several years you know loops were very big in like mid to early 90s you know atlantis and all that stuff kind of like that gurgling loop in the verse and the big giant drums come in and then it went back it went away and now it's back again it's almost like you know corduroy's and mustaches and hairstyles they'll come around every 20 years and so now loops are back and so you know there's this whole thing where usually the first verse i'm sitting around and the loop is going to the front of house so i have this whole variety of red yellow blue shakers maraca combinations i use giant rain sticks to shake things and just kind of bring the audience into my world because you know you're planning to 24 000 people and those people are way out there in the cheap seats by the porta potties and the the you know frozen spiked ice and you know you got to kind of reach them and so a lot of times i'll have a cameraman right on me i'll have a foot cam i've got an overhead cam and then i have a cam right over by my right cymbal so the guys in the back are like mixing this kind of live feed of almost like a live rock concert broadcast to all those people back there so whatever i can do to visually you know giant rain sticks i stand up i you know i'm very try to do that whole uh keith moon thing without actually you know shooting myself with an elephant tranquilizer [Laughter] and and so during the break i've even before the break even before the break i've spoken to some drummers who don't play at all when they're not working i've talked to other drummers who do nothing but play play what was it like for you during the break were you constantly still working on your drumming and i'm thinking you were doing something because you you look like you lost weight too you look very well thanks man but yeah you know i you know weight is so funny it's like it's it's a direct result of the choices you make well it was just it's a result it's a result of all the choices you make whether it be with with exercise um diet and you know your hydration your supplements all that kind of stuff putting it together over over a long haul so when people say uh you know i you know i don't practice all week but i practice six hours every saturday it's better to practice 20 minutes every single day because collectively there's this compound effect and so i was always a runner you know in college i was like 145 pounds i looked like prince and then i rediscovered it and in during the uh lockdown i ran six miles a day around west hollywood california without fail we fell in love with it i just pretended zombies were chasing me and now after those 700 days it's a it's a new habit that i have to have and it's great because you put yourself first and when you put yourself first you can give and give more to other people your fellow man all of humanity so so i appreciate you noticing that so so yeah worked out really hard um and it's easier to do now whenever you get apps and you can do like a little prison workout on the side of your bed you know squat thrusts and burpees and 30 minutes later you're just drenched and you're like i'm so glad i did that yeah so i did that i play you know but i'm a s i'm a i'm a band drummer like i mean i love drum solos like the rest of them i worked so hard on that stuff in college you know at texas tech and university of north texas but let's face that's not how you get hired and keep jobs and the music business is about bringing the song to life so i want to be around people but what i did during the break was um i did a lot of online tracking um from my buddy blair since studio in glendale california and also i have a place here crash studio in nashville i'm in it right now i'm looking at like eight drum sets 20 snare drums percussion instruments around the world all miked up ready to go so i did a lot of that kind of stuff and then i also designed some courses and taught at the musicians institute in hollywood my friend stuart jean asked me to do that so that kept the sticks in my hands kept me fresh um kept me interacting with fellow drummers and so that was really fun so sessions routine maintenance and a lot of teaching that's great uh before we went live rich and i talked a bit about health because we're kind of catching up with each other and many of you may know if you follow the show that almost three years ago now i can't believe it's been three years i was diagnosed with a quite a high level of diabetes even though it was type 2 my a1c was 12.9 when i was diagnosed and in six months i got it down to 7.2 and it's kind of like that

glass ceiling like it's been really hard to get quite a bit if much below that so that's kind of been my thing but fitness is a huge part of battling diabetes so i play as much as i can and that we have a treadmill and an elliptical and weights and stuff and that's a huge part of it and during the lockdown you know a lot of people like you said learned a lot about themselves and some people didn't and and some people just really let themselves go and kind of some people made sourdough and then ate all of it yeah yeah because for a lot of people it was emotionally challenging and when we have anxiety there's something that kicks in in our gut that makes us crave things that are bad for us like sugar and starch and things like that i learned this from my doctor so this is why a lot of people who have depression and things like that or they eat out of anxiety or pressure depression things like that and it's easy so these are the things that we we have to watch even if you're not getting older like me it's still a factor and and like rich said in the beginning it comes down to the choices that we make what you eat what you don't eat do you work out how you hydrate if you hydrate the supplements you take it's all part of a matrix that has to fit together just right and if you're a musician even if you're not a drummer the most physical musician well other than the high hurdle tuba players you still you play and it's doing stuff for up here even if you don't move much doing this it's still good for your head and we need stuff to be good for our head when things are getting weird right oh totally and rich you are really spinning back up now that things are open you can get back out you're getting back into a lot more of your a lot more of your motivational speaking type gigs talk about that talk about the kind of games you want and how people can reach out and hire you for that oh man well i appreciate it i've been cultivating my my speaking career for well over a decade and i've done 12 speeches for folks like cisco and then you know your microsoft or hewlett packards you know big hole hotel chains big pharma all the way to farmers and then high school graduations college graduations um it's just a universal mess message that i've crafted and it's based on an easy to remember acronym and some people love acronyms some people hate them but um they help you remember things in mind it's called crash and there's also the basis of my amazon bestseller it's called crash course success five ways to supercharge your personal and professional life and you could have it delivered as a dead tree to your house or you can download it to your device or you could go on to audible and if you go to audible and you subscribe to audible my offering is free and these very these relaxing yet raspy pipes will read you the story um and it's fun and between these chapters it's like i do a little drum thing in and out of each chapter so i'm so happy i took the time to write the book but um the speaking thing commitment relationships attitude skill hunger five things that any people in any walk of life in any season their life can use to be more attractive uh attractive attract more success and prosperity into their life and that's i think what everybody wants um money gets a bad rap you know but prosperity is a good thing you know you're gonna need food shelter clothing entertainment gas you know and money buys those things so hopefully you find something that you're happy with that really excites you in life so all of us that are fortunate enough to be playing drums even on the weekend and making money from it is such a cool thing you know um but the recent uh speeches were for like 1500 vocational educators in sacramento that was very very awesome and then a security company called sanatrol and then i just went and spoke to the tourism bureau for galveston texas and the mayor was there and he introduced me which was really fun and then i did uh the georgia manufacturing association which is 122 year old organization and um that was so fun to think that an organization is 122 years old they've been through the birth of jazz prohibition uh world wars the beatles coming to america everything i mean everything and to be asked to speak out of something like that to be the featured keynote speaker it makes me just think you know i'm doing something right and i'm just continuing to do those things so so you know chambers of commerce's and schools and meeting planner uh things and young presidents associations i do a lot of that and then all the way to the you know the fortune 500 and i don't discriminate you know i've got a gig coming up with the american potato council and you know i figure out who doesn't love a potato well you can't have potatoes right now but i love the potato head so there you go yes and you know what i think i'm gonna do is maybe i'll bring him and i'll have him sit on my shoulder and i'll get all sorts of fun i'll break the ice that way but you know this is a thing where i've combining things that i'm passionate about which is i love drumming i love music i love storytelling i love moting motivating people educating people um i'm a show pony i love to have that microphone in my hand and it combines all of those things into an offering that makes me happy and at the same time allows other people to be affected in a positive way which totally factors into my purpose in life which is to affect people in a positive way and change lives so to me it just makes sense and as much as we face ageism in the drum industry you know it's going to be hard for a 60 year old man to get a job with a 22 year old pop star starlet you know um speaking you could do to the day you dropped absolutely that's kind of kind of exciting yeah i'm a member of the national speakers association the arizona chapter which is the founding chapter i didn't know okay yeah yeah and there's two or three gentlemen that were there when cabot robert who has passed on formed the association two or three of the original members and maybe two or three other people that have been members since like the late 80s and like you said that they're in their late 70s early 80s a couple of them yeah i think yeah and they're still doing it and they're still rocking it i just went to our chapter meeting last saturday and there's just so much wisdom in a room like that from everyone's different experiences speaking on their different niche to their different types of audiences and it's just such a wonderful community um but it's it's almost like an obligation when you have that gift to be able to motivate people inspire people you know with the message and it never gets old which is great yeah and then being on the receiving end we can never get too much of that you know i think there's something wrong with somebody who says oh i don't believe in that positive thinking stuff or i don't need inspiration like what language is what you know yeah yeah i mean might as well you see what it does for other people and you know exactly the the tony robbins is in the zig ziglars in the napoleon hills of the world it's all been i wouldn't say scientifically studied but as as close as you can get using some sort of a science um but yeah and it's like you know and trying to figure out that the best way to sell and market those different offerings like i have a different way of selling my keynote to corporate america i have a different way of selling it to school assemblies where the entire student body is there and then sometimes people just want me to talk to the music and or arts program so it's all it's it could be really the same umbrella of crash you know and that meant that i idea of that acronym but also for the school kids am i talking more about you know digital responsibility and um teamwork and persistence and drive and integrity and character and reputation and all that kind of stuff that they kind of need to hear about and like what do you want to do with your life kid you know i go around like what do you like oh i love sports so i was like well yeah well get in there man you need to be exercising working out right now working on your craft because your career is going to be over at 35. drop it give me 20. and the other kids like i love video games i'm like well you can do voiceover for to give video games you could design the video game you can do the motion you can write the music for it and they go wow they see the possibilities of life and it doesn't have to be necessarily following in the footsteps of what their their parents did you know they can follow their dreams exactly absolutely let's take some questions look at some uh and you're like there's no questions what's really funny is is that you know the things that i teach is like what i do is not rocket science it's just about finding the big beat bringing that song to life with a smile on your your face and you know showing up and exceeding expectations and any that's why my message is you can do it too you just have to have that thick skin to survive the business of music which is not for the faint of heart yeah that's really absolutely um where did i see the question jim ho hey jim jim's asking does rich know country drummer bryce williams bryce williams yes he was uh played with lady antebellum in the very very early days and they went through about four or five drummers at this point but he was on the early end of it matter of fact i think he was playing and we opened up for them or they opened up for us but we were both there that's cool i forget that the questions are now showing up for me on a little monitor down here so let's see um [Music] oh cool watching from the coast of oregon michael bovamatic wayne sim says hi dan and rich jim needs to talk to me about the diabetes awesome um cool and rob robinson says hey there guys and gals sticks up that's right as long as we're not up here because that's how everyone seems when they criticize other drummers like their sticks are up there well finish that sentence speaking about sticks up talk about drumming in the modern world oh yeah so drumming in the modern world i can't believe it it's a product that i've had out for i cannot believe this since uh 2015 and i created it and um my producer and director was the guy eric doris killer drummer killer cinematographer director that did all the todd superman dvds the methods and mechanics stuff so um it's a five and a half hour training program with 120 hd videos you just go to drumming in the modernworld.com and you stream this product for 99 bucks for your entire life and it's just a lot of things that i know about drumming which is how to set up a q mix and how to create a cheat chart and how to read the nashville number system and little tidbits on on how to make a backline drum set sound good and um deconstruction of all the early jason aldean hits and then plus another 15 songs from different artists in different genres and there's 40 something drums mini drum solos so it's kind of hitting on everything the basics of hand development kind of like this is my take on everything i know about drumming you know it just that's you guys can have it it's it's out there and i just felt like by the time i hit 45 years old my friend uh vic salazar you know who used to own you know vicks trump was kind of like a muse and a mayor of the drum industry which such a wonderful guy is so knowledgeable a dear friend of mine he said man it's time you know he goes dvds have died but you got to put out something that creates a legacy for yourself you know um and i was like that's a great idea so you do all the hard work that's associated with doing something like that and um you know just meeting eric doris was just a great gift in life because he had such a vision and i i think eric's last goal is he wants to perhaps maybe do some sort of a product with with vinnie so i hope it happens interesting that'll be great yeah interesting that would be maybe maybe so on the topic of everything that you cover in that program what do you think are one or two of the most common things that most drummers miss or don't pay attention and give enough credit to get better at leave out of their development you know where i'm going what what i think are one or two of the biggest things that get neglected the number one skill that i think has helped my career and has like i look at the careers of people that i admire is the ability to read music and to read music really well whether someone puts it in front of you and says here you go kid and you don't have any chin you sight read it so so we're talking like uh we're talking big bands we're talking film score dates we're talking cruise ships um we're talking anytime someone has the bass drum pattern the snare drum the exact fills where the hi-hat is open where the crestables are all that stuff um is really really important and the ability for you to listen to a song and perhaps create a chart for yourself and it could be a through compose note for note every hi-hat opening or it could be what i call a phrase chart which is outlining the phrases of the piece and including important fills dynamics color choices like crostic snare drum ride cymbal bell the ride um and i i'm literally looking at filing cabinets in my room that are filled with every chart that i've ever read or created from my whatever playing drum since 1976 i held on to everything and at some point i would i would digitize these things and it sounds like a massive project but the ability to read music is paramount because even if you go to learn the nashville number system which is based on like just outlining the harmonic structure of a song so one four five you know in the key of c major is c f major and then g major and uh just to be able to read those every day in the studio a lot of times people have demo itis or they want something very specific from the program demo or some from the drummer that played out a demo and now i'm going to play on the the record version of the song and they people get very attached to things so you have to be able to write out like figures and drumistic information i'll write it on top of the number chart but the very first thing to do is to be able to read say like page 38 from the ted read book sing it count it you know like one and three four one two and one two three and one and three one so and so i if i could tell kids like look at that's the first step you got to be able to read that down no problem no the sticking know the counting be able to scat it and then that that way when you are working in an industry where people are expecting you to do things quickly time is money they're expecting you to exceed expectations the reading the music is going to come in so so handy you know and how do you sub for a gig without being able to either read their charts or like you said make your own phrase charts oh my god sometimes it's just one hour before the show you know i get like a you're getting a knock on the dressing room door hey man the drummer in the opening act uh broke his foot and you're like what and then you got to go out and you got to learn five songs really quickly his drums are set up you're ready to go man just like you know get the phrases and get the bpms and then i meet really quickly with the people backstage like i got the live version how does it end okay ah and then hang on that and do a trash can so you write it out you know and so and you have the ability to save the day for someone and also by reading music you now the world is your oyster you could you could get the new gadimitz book and you could steal everything from guy you can go back into todd's method of mechanics and it's all written out matter of fact if my gift to the drumming world is you can go to richredman.com r-e-d-m-o-n-d you go to

the shop icon click on the shop icon and i have like 10 pdf um booklets of every jason aldean song i've ever recorded completely transcribed it's just my gift to you you guys take it you work on it it allows you to accomplish several things you're working on your reading and you're working on your stylistic interpretation of a specific genre that's doing very well right now i mean what genres are really working right now hip-hop and country they're still putting butts in seats so those are probably two languages that you've got to learn to speak that's great you used one of my favorite musical terms which is scat yeah first of all i love the genre and the funny thing about how you used it while we're talking about writing and reading music do you know where the term came from it's another one i like it because of the story cats i know that i know the great scat singers um but uh scat scats no it was like was it a syllable like scats could you use cats almost it's a great story and here's where it originated from louis armstrong was in the studio recording a vocal he was recording a vocal the air turned on or something and it blew his lyrics off the music stand the lyrics fell and he started they scattered so he just started and that replaced the lyrics and he called it scat because my lyrics scattered and i didn't i didn't know that but you know what there's nothing worse than when it's done incredibly well it's unbelievable when it's done poorly it's the worst thing in human history it's so it's drunk a bad a bad scat singer is just like you know when it's like really square and academic yeah the kids are trying it in the high school jazz bands like i give it a few more years kid you know that's funny yeah great stuff that those are great tips and really lessons for people i love that you have all those pdfs available um and i like also the fact of something that's helped me memorize very lengthy and complicated pieces of music as well as even the simplest things is learning by ear and you could learn by the notation as well but learning by ear every other instrument's part when you can sing the bass part the guitar parts the keyboard parts know every lyric that's knowing every crack in the road and turn and curb and driveway and tree stump on the map of that song because you know what's coming i've heard some drummers say i'm not a lyrics guy i don't even really know the words to like well they need to yeah that's crazy right i really i've heard that as well from really prominent drummers yeah and if you're going to be um if you're going to be a song drummer like you know like a sean pelton or a kenny aaron off or an eddie bears or some of the new cats that are coming like let's look at like a match ambulance who always gets a great gig with a singer songwriter type the guy can play so out and so bizarre can play free jazz and then film score stuff with john bryan but then go and back up a brandy carlisle and probably knows all what those songs are about because it's gonna inform the tuning of your snare drum the way you sonically alterate your house alter your drums the symbols you choose the part you create um jim keltner you know he's listening to what that song is about absolutely know it for sure very important stuff what are you going to do well maybe the answer would be different now let me ask it this way when you started playing drums in 1976 did you ever imagine even if you knew you were going to become a professional drummer that you'd be working as a professional drummer into your 50s or did you have in your mind can i be a professional drummer and then after that i'm going to do xyz and if so what what would that xyz would have been what did you see yourself as an old man of 45 after your drumming career age is all a perception what was that story in your head well i think when i started in 76 it was uh it was just you know my first teacher was like you know and you know listening to kiss and queen and going like this is fun i mean i got my teacher says i'm good at this maybe i'll keep doing this but then you know i was really into star wars empire strikes back and banana bikes and climbing trees and riding my skateboards and so i gave it more time till i was about 11 or 12 and and then you know the police came out with like synchronicity and van halen came out with 1984 and i was watching mtv and then that's when the fire really caught and i was like that's what i'm going to do with my life and ever since then rolling up the sleeves taking the lessons going to college investing in myself i knew that i was going to do this professionally no matter what no matter how long it took uh whether it killed me and i was just gonna do it till the day i die i mean i'll probably die with the sticks in my hands you know you know i mean and that's cool that's cool because i know that this is my calling it's a gift from the heavens and if i hadn't taken that gift and refined it and cultivated it it would have um been highly disrespectful you know so i i think that i recognize that that kind of gift from the universe and the effect it has on people when you play drums when you step behind that instrument people start to smile and then you land down a beat and then the band is smiling at you and then the dance floor fills up you're like this is my calling this is my calling you know so i i think i'm doing it i think i'm and just drummers are young at heart and um you could do two things you can either play be a drummer or grow up and um i think there's this child yes and the poor women in our life have to deal with this inner child um oh my goodness you know how many times a day i hear my wife say what are you ten i'm glad she gives me that much credit i'm glad you get ten i get five it's awesome so that's cause you're still pooping in your pants but that's another hey so knowing what people know of you the way they perceive you as a drummer as a musician being familiar with jason aldean's music and all that i i love when drummers and other musicians just like actors can kind of break a stereotype even if it's just a crack open door do you have any bands or genres or even guilty pleasures that you listen to that might surprise people because that's not what they know you for yeah oh yeah well i i've somehow become and this is fine you know because the whole world is about people they you work your whole life and then somehow you get an opportunity and then that's what you become like this one trick pony you know and it's like hey it's great it's better to be known for something than nothing right so people think that i'm the big you know the big beat drummer in um in nashville playing this music that we've cultivated over two decades and i love that but then at the same time you know in two weeks i'm going to texas and i'm going to do a all latin um music percussion ensemble concert for my buddy jimmy olagi that teaches there at the really great high school in odessa texas and la la davila is going to play timbales and i'm going to play and then fast is going to play congas from stevie wonder's band so going to be this triple threat percussion section and we're going to be doing you know all mark anthony and santana and like all like stuff spanish you know it's like it's going to be in spanish and a lot of it's going to be um you know you know transcribed for percussion instruments so you go there and it's a double threat because you get to enjoy a new kind of music and you get to bring your experience and your essence and share it with the kids in this kind of communal music-making environment so i get to stretch a different muscle and they get to just you know grow and develop and this new skill set and then we bring the music to the community and then so everybody wins it's just a great thing um but uh so yes so like all the time i spent playing reggae and latin music and i know about two three club and stone clubby versus roomba clubby and and how to play a correct samba and then overdubbing percussion like a lot of people just don't know this stuff you know so when i get a chance to do it you know and uh you know i was the rehearsal drummer for chad whackerman when the university of north texas did our tribute to the music of frank zappa so i'm playing like black page one and two and mo on herbs vacation and strictly gentile so this is just fun so so people um they go he's that guy but um you know then you have to which is great and you get keep call you get called for that kind of stuff another guilty pleasure for me is i'm a singer songwriter um i'm like a groupie like i love the lucinda williams is in the steve earls and the brandy carlisles and the chris stapleton's anything where it's like completely stripped down no click track bringing a story to life and just kind of like disappearing into the woodwork and blending with that storytelling um at some point you know maybe later in life i will connect with some sort of uh that kind of like a troubadour that that goes and does those smaller rooms um it's just the thing i just love that kind of stuff that's cool that's awesome you met let's geek out on gear a little bit before we go yeah you mentioned that you're getting a new black piano finish dw kit for the jason aldean tour tell us about the setup the what sizes what are the shells what heads do you like to use i've seen you use i think a power stroke on some of the videos um talk about getting your sound and what you use so exciting to get a new drum so it's like christmas every couple years with dw but i've had the uh you know i just used the standard dw uh technology from the you know the eight the late 70s 80s you know just a standard maple shell um i've used all the variations that john and don and everybody are always trying to come up with and i you know as an endorser you're you're it's kind of your responsibility to do some field testing provide feedback and that kind of stuff but i just love the standard you know the shells that you created the company that put the company on the map that you can go buy guitar center and i'm very adamant about just playing drums that anybody can go up and buy a guitar center is no custom this custom that so i've had the black sparkle finish i've had a black and red sparkle finish i've had a red sparkle finish i've got the matte black finish that i've had for on the roads like the darth vader model and then i realized i hadn't done a piano black so i was talking to all my friends there and they're like yeah go for a piano black you know it's so sexy it's so classic um and the sizes are 20 kick drums 24 by 16. tom are 13 16 18 with the standard depths not the my first dw kit was the bobby blotzer rat you know from the round and round video the giant and so then now i have the standard standard sizes and then you know i got the ringo ride here i'll do two hi-hats because i like the hi-hat over here so i can kind of high stick i can still get the hi-hat color but then i can high stick for all the people out by the porta potties and then i have two crashes and i'm usually like alex van halen just to say two twenties oh okay and then i'll um maybe in 1920 or but usually just two twenties and then i'll use that be brilliant uh right um china symbol the uh chad whackerman chad um chad smith holy china yeah it just it's it's a flash of brilliant [Music] you know like heat and then it goes with the snare crack it's great bam and then you know i've got the you know the some rolling pads and the sbds act everybody's got to have that i got a little double bass pedal and people were like do you ever use that thing i was like well it's there in case i want to go at the end of a song you know we i think we have like one maybe one trash can ending you know we're pretty tight meticulous band like with very specific endings and you know um transition so we don't have a lot of that we don't just don't we just don't do it like that but it's there if inspiration strikes um but yeah then the com then the uh the the head choices are on the kick drum clear power stroke three with a flam slam uh because i've got my black sheep beater that i helped kind of design with dw and that's just like hickory just incredibly hard hickory boom um and then snare drum i've been using the p77s which are great to get that kind of low tuned back in black fat back you know not mud like rumors or stan lynch yeah you know but uh but like a ac dc crack that still sounds good in the pa system and then on the toms i've been using uh clear or hazy emperors so god bless raymond i've been with uh dw about 12 years they've been with remo since 1994 i've been with sabian since 2002 and i've been with promark for quite a few years too and i have my signature stick which is basically a black modified 5b that's got this active grip coating on it so as your body temperature rises the finish gets tacky and it allows you to hold on to the stick a little bit better so i love the gear and um all the companies i mean we need that support you know if you're traveling and you got to have a bat you got to be a boy scout you got to have at least two snare drums you got to have a bunch of extra heads you got to have your tools and your parts and extra crash symbols you know in case you're in fargo and they don't have a music store and you got to have your supplies you know yeah how often do you change the heads on the road so the kick drum is probably every few months um snare drum every three shows and then the toms i think every run or every other run so the runs that we do in nashville since it's so central is we'll leave on a wednesday and we'll play thursday friday saturday so usually it's a new snare head and the new toms every three shows okay um and don't forget about your bottom heads usually we'll change those once or twice during like a three-month tour so over a 90-day period you know because those heads are on the bottom the clear ambassadors they're vibrating too by just existing you know they get worn out too so be sure to change those every once in a while very cool great now it is time for the rich redmond fun fact series of questions here we go strap yourself in put on a helmet ready are you ready i'm getting the water i think i know part of the first answer but we're gonna put it out there ready yeah favorite movie aliens oh i thought you guys say a star wars movie oh yeah i know those are good too yeah we're a big star wars family this is the way i can um favorite television show if you have one oh god for years it was three's company first influence on the drums carmine apache nice first enough first favorite meal if you could have any meal what is your favorite meal that you would look most forward to oh like my mom's my mom's ravioli with her homemade you know family sauce and the meatballs and the sausage and all that with the side of the little escarole salad maybe a little glass of red wine oh my god great favorite thing to hydrate with when you're working out or playing drums just regular old water but i love it cold they say that room temperature water is better for you but i i love that feeling of the it's the cold water you can feel the temperature going into your body i'm the same way that's got to be cold every friday enter my studio just for that reason it's got to be cold got to be cool great you've traveled all over the world where in the world other than my house and globe where in the world have you not been to that would be at the top of your bucket list oh um um i've been to japan but i played a bunch of outdoor festivals i have not been to tokyo proper and i know that it's like i want to go to the yeah it's it's it's a crazy forward-thinking city and it would be cool to uh yeah do that go stay at the roppongi hotel residence it's both it's an apartment has apartments and it's a hotel most amazing restaurant there it's the best steak dinner i've ever had it's incredible yeah it'd be cool to do the boudicon you know it'd be cool to do the buddha you know most of the venues that i you know i haven't done the acropolis but you know we've done you know madison square garden the hollywood bowl and red rocks and the gorge and fenway and wrigley's a lot of nfl stadiums so like oh my god what's uh what's next i mean i don't know you'll find out when you're not doing anything related to music not working in motivation not doing anything related to the things you do that you do what do you like to do do you have a hobby that maybe we don't know about or nothing creepy though it's a family show i i tell everybody you know the f's the food the fashion the film the friends you know those are all great ways to to relieve stress and you know whether it's retail therapy or going to see like a new film or discovering new music or being a barcelona philosopher with some like-minded people but my new thing coming out of the pandemic is is i reclaimed my suburban house here in nashville and i go out on my highly underused deck and for after owning the house for 12 years i bought patio furniture i've got a grill i've got all the little lights strung up i go out there's all these mature trees and i have my coffin i listen to the birds singing and i just think that there's this renewed sense of gratitude and humility coming in post-pandemic and i look forward to the next 20 years you know so that's awesome at that that patio furniture how many seats are there i got one two three four five six seats not bad so you're in one of them what musicians past or present or in the other five that you'd love to have lunch with oh would it be cool to have like the um the mount rushmore of drummers so you would have bonham you'd have charlie you'd have keith um and you'd have ring and and they're you know some of them are not with us but i mean it it this is hypothetic yeah they're all they're all alive right they're all alive and we're all just like i can pick their brain and and and they can tell stories and then i will be the mixologist and i'll be like here keith here's your elephant tranquilizer here john here's some vodka here charlie here's some he seems like a like a like a wine guy he'd have his pinky out or something and i would just be serving up the whole thing and you know what's neat about you mentioning them they basically all come from the same influential background studying jazz yep they start studying you know the the the the zooty singletons and the mel lewis's and the uh the um you know those cats you know uh cozy coal yeah if you listen to bonham's you know like bucket of fish type stuff that's that's a max roach totally max roach yeah it is max freaking it's a tattoo of his licks absolutely and carmine use it all over like say like a classic track like hot legs you know for uh rod stewart yeah which he wrote actually yeah very cool rich thank you so much for taking time to join us again here on drum talk tv i'll send you the link to this uh so that you can look at comments i'm sure it'll get more comments even after it's archived and we'll post it a few more times throughout the next month so check that out hang on with me after we sign off with the audience and audience thank you so much for joining rich redmond and myself dan shander here on drum talk tv we appreciate you following what we do go to drum talk tv.com shop and get one of the three dozen designs of drum talk tv shirts a hundred percent of the proceeds go to the american diabetes association of which i am a board member of the arizona new mexico pod we would really appreciate it and then send in a video of you playing in a drum talk tv shirt you move right to the front of the line there you go all right folks thank you so much we will see you again soon

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