people try to chase balance
Drummer Brooks Wackerman talks about a myriad of subjects from creating your own drum style to playing for less responsive audiences. And our conversation also jagged into topics of the mind such as how people try to chase balance in life.
Podcast topics
- Forging your own path in drumming.
- Fusion as an influence in Brooks Wackerman’s drumming.
- The Ethos of Punk Rock and Metal.
- Tony Williams listened to Metallica.
- Tony Williams like John Bonham.
- John Bonham Liked jazz drumers.
- Doors drummer John Paul Densmore liked Elvin Jones.
- Watching Tony Williams at Catalina Bar and Grill.
- Finding your personal drum style.
- “The sooner you welcome failure and cancel out expectation the more comfortable you’ll be”
- “Happiness is reality minus failure” – Elon Musk on Joe Rogan podcast
- Anticipating playing with Steve Vai at a benefit show for foster kids.
- “Its funny how your mind goes to no”
- Jim Carrey Yes Man
- “theres no me” – Jim Carrey
- Identity
- Materialism
- He got a girlfriend who didn’t become his wife, he was going through a gray period”
- “He was using materialism as a transitory fulfillment”
- Keeping your center.
- “people try to chase balance”
- “No there is no fucking balance in life you just gotta go with the flow”
- Bill Murray
- Rushmoore
- Jason Schwartzman
- Wes Anderson
- How to get into the moment when you play drums?
- So after a few minutes of painting thew worst case scenarios in my brain, before we go on stage were all together and we all fist bump and its a good moment we all have each others back and we all love each other, Ive done my homework and if I miss a feel well then fuck it.
- Feeling Good book by David Burns
- “Punk Rock has taken a magnificent turn for the best, Josh Freeze, Travis Barker”
- When I joined Avenged Sevenfold people thought Brooks Wackerman was a fictions name.
- “My favorite shows are improvisational one’s”
- “If I try something and my guitar player looks back and smiles or my singer Im like great I just created something that is working.”
Playing for less responsive audiences
- Shoot The Moon
- Hot Potty
- Bad Religion
- Andy Kaufman
- “I was up there like a infantry man just standing my ground”
- Hot Potty and Vandels show
- “All my favorite artists were guys that weren’t accepted or was doing something different”
- Minor Threat
- Straight Edged Punk Rock
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by Ken Hada
Category: drummer, Drumming, Music, Recording
Tags: drummer, drumming, expectation, failure, John Bonham, materialism, punk rock, Tony Williams