Crash Bang Boom Podcast!

314_Adam Deitch - Lettuce, Break Science, Solo, & more!

Drummer Adam Deitch of Lettuce, Break Science, A.D. Quartet, and more talks about Lettuce’s connection to New Orleans and some of his favorite drummers past & present, working with John Scofield and Average White Band, growing up playing drums with his mother AND father as well as learning the ropes in his Dad’s studio, studying with the great Dave DiCenso at Berkley, the spontaneity of recording the new Deitch, Teitle, & Fribush record “Another Side of the Sound”, working on his signature snare drum with Tama, VHS drum videos as early inspiration and our mutual fascination with David Girabaldi of Tower of Power, drum lessons on deitchacademy.com , and much more!!! https://deitchacademy.com/ https://www.lettucefunk.com/tour [https://www.lettucefunk.com/tour]

313_Rob Smith - Traindodge, Museum of Light, Calm Collapse, Riddle of Steel

Drummer Rob Smith of Traindodge, Museum of Light, Calm Collapse, Riddle of Steel (and more) talks about Traindodge’s connection with ATL trio Dropsonic, a brief history of his time in STL, MO trio Riddle of Steel, Russian Circles drummer Dave Turncrantz influence on Rob when he first joined the band, balancing parenting and touring, his first drum sets (and varying drum sets through out the years), Brendan Canty of Fugazi and James Lo of Chavez as drum influences, recording the Museum of lIght “Diviner” record at Ocean Sound studios in Norway, recording at God City Studios with Kurt Ballou /w/ Calm Collapse, playing keys AND drums simultaneously,  and learning to balance all three of his bands!

312_Scott Middleton-BASK

Drummer Scott Middleton of Asheville, NC mountain-psych-stoner band- Bask talks about their great new record The Turning, the process of writing it, recording drums, the gear involved, some of the concepts behind the lyrics, recent shows with Tennessee’s Generation of Vipers, the crazy series of events leading up to the Asheville floods; being stuck in the mountains without electricity/water to making his way in to town and witnessing the destruction first-hand, the kindness of strangers, doing drum-therapy to heal, plus much more!!!! https://basknc.bandcamp.com/album/the-turning [https://basknc.bandcamp.com/album/the-turning]

311_Jason Gerken-Shiner, Molly McGuire, HUM

Drummer Jason Gerken of KC’s Shiner returns to the CBBP to talk their fantastic new record Believe You Me, the process of recording the drums in what started as pre-production (and how much of that ended up on the record), the franken-kit he used in the studio, some go-to snares, the process of writing, jamming and winging the hell out of parts, vampire armadillos, leper colonies, aching backs, acidic stomachs, shitty Japanese backline gear (and why he’s bringing drum heads with him overseas going forward), the drumming of Bonham, Tony Thompson, and Sebastian Thomson,  drummer Chris Metacalf of The Life and Times approving of Jason’s best impersonations of Chris, original Shiner drummer Tim Dow’s crazy injury that lead to Jason filling in (& joining the band), the hurricane that was Billy Cobham,  Jason’s love of Prog and Podcasts - and much more!!! Believe You Me is available everywhere! https://shinerkc.bandcamp.com/album/believeyoume [https://shinerkc.bandcamp.com/album/believeyoume]

310_David Silver - Season To Risk

Drummer David Silver of Season to Risk talks about how he got the STR gig and shadowing Shiner drummers Jason Gerkin and Tim Dow in the beginning, their subsequent tour with COC (Reed Mullin’s amazing playing), how ALL the members of Shiner are connected to STR, their van wreck, their flooded studio, their burned masters, a record that was released out of phase, one particular story of good luck around an early STR demo tape, their new record 1-800-MELTDOWN due out April 12th, the wild backstory that lead him to being a Qigong teacher, how that lead him to Lou Reed AND how it has helped him in drumming!!