Crash Bang Boom Podcast!

For nearly 17 years drummer Larry Kwartowitz has been at the percussion-helm of Philly's avant-metal/spazzy-soundtrack/ purveyors of controlled chaos; Cleric!! We get into the ups downs, tragedy’s and other madness of Cleric's career, stolen gear & vans, working with John Zorn & touring with Secret Chiefs 3/ releasing Retrocausal on Trey Spruance’s Web of Mimicry label, gifted drum sets, battling crohn's disease, a Pearl Jam geek out, Tomas Haake, Tim Alexander & Ken Schalk as drumming influences, recurring themes & confirmation bias, the intensity of Cleric’s music and the process of writing it, time traveling, sci-fi the origin of Cleric’s name & Larry’s obsession with the movie Equilibrium, our mutual fascination with the Mr. Bungle California tour, plus Larry’s super human ability to eat large quantities of weed edibles. Good Lawd!!!! https://clericmimicry.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/iamcleric/Upcoming dates with Candiria:https://www.facebook.com/iamcleric/ph

Part II of a two part #CBBP special series highlighting shit-jobs musicians have had while pursuing music!Mental hospitals, window cleaners, ice cream stand & lumber yards, shitty hotels, factory jobs, janitorial work, music stores & getting fired from them, movie theaters, silly cover bands, a street hustler for titi bars, insurance salesman, bear wrestling, office jobs, dishwashing, bartending, fast food, and more!!!Coady Willis-Big Business, Melvins 02:35Ben Koeller: Mutoid Man, Converge, All Pigs Must Die 06:05Matt Cuodo (Cudo): Elder 07:55Ryan “Legs” Leger - 100 Suns, Norma Jean, Ex- Every Time I Die 12:19Jimmy Bower-Down, Eyehategod, Superjoint 16:10Phil Sangiacomo: aka Phillapino Grigio Anselmo) of Somnuri 17:51Adam Betts: Three Trapped Tigers, Shoebaleader One, Solo 20:02Mason Macisas: Yoink 21:35Noidy-Manilla Road, Trance 24:20Mike Ogden-Nut 25:26Evan Diprima-Royal Thunder 29:08Chris Enriquez- Spotlights, Primitive Weapons 30:28Marcus Bryant-Spirit Adrift, Goya 32:49#CBBP Sponsor: http

This is the first of two special installments where I collect the best stories of musicians' odd jobs they've had while chasing the ever elusive dream of playing music!! Porn stores, pest control, septic tank cleaning, scuba diving, break dancing lessons, construction, child hood actors, fast food, fried chicken delivery , real estate, bussing tables, pool maintenance and more!!Brann Dahlor: Mastodon 02:20Rick Smith: Torche 06:05Josh Nee: Thou 07:21Ash Pearson: Revocation 09:12Pete Webber: Havok 10:22Jared Stimpfl: Secret Cutter 12:11Nick Lee: Moontooth, Riot IV 13:47Mlny Parsons: Royal Thunder 16:06Zach Eichenhorn: Netherlands 17:25Aaron Hill: Eyehategod/Mountain of Wizard 25:59Donnie Adkinson: Whores 26:49Jon Ehlers: Bangladeafy 28:42#CBBP Sponsor: http://www.neworleansrecordpress.com/

Tucker Rule has been the percussive force in such bands as Thursday, Yellowcard, My Chemical Romance, The Wanted, Murphy's Law & many more!! We get into The fairly rapid ascent of Thursday's career and his recent tour with the band in Hawaii & Australia alongside rock-idols Quicksand, punk rock ethos, the roots of “Post Hardcore” and the struggles of identifying oneself as a musician during the absence of music in ones life, the strange world of dance -pop & playing huge shows in English boy-band The Wanted vs hardcore shows with Murphy’s Law, equipment melt downs and live vomits, plus his local bands Ageist & Heavy Vessel!https://www.tuckerrule.com/https://heavyvessel.bandcamp.com/releases

Drumming juggernaut JP Bouvet is today's guest! We get into into modern art, funny stories of playing with the uber shred-tastic axe slinger's in Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Via, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tosin Abasi in Generation Axe, plus the concept of memorizing vs learning “beautiful” drum parts for last minute gigs with Animals as Leaders/Periphery, prioritizing important information in the age of rapid information, practicing smart and composing solos, the GC Drum-off/V Drum Competitions and subsequent revelations about competitive drumming, the artistic outlet that his band Childish Japes presents to everyone involved, game reserve drum camps. Icelandic bike trips, and a whole lot mo!www.JPBouvetMusic.comhttps://childishjapes.bandcamp.com/https://www.instagram.com/jpbouvet

I caught up with drummer Marcus Bryant during a one-off show with AZ proggy-doom purveyors Spirit Adrift where we talked Arizona summers, motorcycles, religious upbringings and gravitating towards heavy music, Spirit Adrift going from a one man band to full live band, his stoner-sludge band Goya, connecting with Metallica at a young age, Lars Ulrich as his initial drum inspiration, getting hipped to new music by the local record shop employee, his musical family, & words of wisdom form his deceased drum teacher!https://spiritadrift.bandcamp.com/https://marijuana.bandcamp.com/https://www.20buckspin.com/search?type=product&q=spirit+adrifthttps://www.facebook.com/marcusbryant?ref=br_rs

For the last 30 years Sean Saley has been poundin' the skins with bands such as Government Issue, The Skull, Pentagram, Bang! and Teamster - to name a few!! We get into giant groundhogs, Neil Armstrong, destroying drum sets, playing with the Skull for their string of shows featuring the self tiled Trouble record in it's entirety, another nerd-out on Voivod /Eric Dolphy (Uber Nerd Alert) & Killing Joke plus Sean’s crazy 8 track collection-from actual players, to 8 track label makers, to tapes and the whole fuckin' sha-bang!http://www.theskullusa.com/www.facebook.com/troubletheskull/https://teamster.bandcamp.com/#CBBP Sponsor: www.neworleansrecordpress.com/

Sasha Horn can presently be seen thrashing the kit with Exhorder, Forbidden, Year of the Tyrant, and kicking some punk rock fury in Russian Girlfriends!! We rap about the sheer awesomeness of Soundgarden, the crazy list of records released in ’91, seeing Nirvana back in the day, moving from Chicago to New Mexico & making long distance bands function, Sasha’s musical family, how he got the Exhorder gig and the process of learning original drummer Chris Nail’s drum parts, his early memories of gravitating towards thrash, our mutual love and subsequent nerd-out on Voivod plus a quick history of Russian Girlfriends Forbidden, & Year of The Tyrant. www.exhorder.com/www.facebook.com/ExhorderNOLA/www.facebook.com/Year-of-the-Tyra…801012773408395/russiangirlfriends.bandcamp.com/www.facebook.com/sasha.horn1Photo Cred: Jamy Cabre@ fortheloveofpunk.com#CBBP Sponsor: http://www.neworleansrecordpress.com/

Drummer Chris Enriquez is the rock foundation of Shoegazy Ethereal Doom trio Spotlights, Long Island Hardcore band Primitive Weapons, and formerly with Noise rockers Hann! We delve into playing in punk rock karaoke bands, equipment meltdowns, bathroom breaks in front of big crowds, touring with Spotlights and opening for the Melvins and Deftones, some back stories on Primitive Weapons and Haan, his love for Dale Crover and Dave Grohl, hardcore shows in Long Island & NYC, and more!!https://spotlights.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/spotlightsband/https://www.facebook.com/PrimitiveWeapons/https://primitiveweaponsnyc.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/PrimitiveWeapons/https://haan-nyc.bandcamp.com/#CBBP Sponsor: http://www.neworleansrecordpress.com/

AP Gonzalez is my guest for today's continuation of the CBBP New Orleans Drummers Series!!! AP is one of the rare drummers who bridges punk/jazz& funk & was an absolute idol of mine while playing in his band Lump in the early-mid-90’s. We get into his original band Black Problem, being an oddball band in the late 80’s in New Orleans, going out to LA during the 92’ riots to record with SST band Universal Congress Of, the failure and the subsequent victory of learning UCO’s material, forming Lump and meeting Galactic saxophonist Ben Ellman/ his new band Alpha Sardine, early memories of when he first started playing, his love for The Minutemen, The Clash, Devo, Elvis Castello, Bad Brains, James Blood Ulmer plus stories about mullets, Jerry Springer, Bourbon Street & more!!https://www.facebook.com/Alpha-Sardine-340508063046743/CBBP Sponsor: http://www.neworleansrecordpress.com/

Evan Diprima's blend of power and musicality is at the center of Atlanta's psych-indie-stoner quartet Royal Thunder!! We get into sleeping on floors and marathon writing sessions, all kinds of tech geekery including custom drum sets, tuning bigger dimension drums, recording drums solo to click tracks as well as other aspects of studio recording, the complex task of describing Royal Thunder’s music, eating canned food, his musical family growing up, RT’s chameleon like appeal and ability to cross genre’s, cats vs dogs and a whole lot more!!www.royalthunderofficial.com/www.facebook.com/RoyalThunderMusic/royalthunder.bandcamp.com/CBBP Sponsor!: www.neworleansrecordpress.com/Photos: Robert Forte-Insta: @40_photography

Multifaceted drummer extraordinaire Pej Mon of Secret Chiefs 3, Girth, & Satya Sena is our guest today! We get into fractured backs, Frank Zappa & Mr Bungle, The encyclopedic cross-genre melding of mastermind Trey Spruance, studying traditional Indian music and the benefits of learning that vocabulary, rebelling from academia and pursuing extreme forms of music, Dave Grohl & John Bonham, his evolving drum set ups and love for Vistalite Drums plus his teaching of infinite power. Get up on it y'all!!https://girth.bandcamp.com/https://secretchiefsthree.bandcamp.com/http://www.webofmimicry.com/http://www.infinitepowercoaching.com/CBBP Sponsor!: http://www.neworleansrecordpress.com/

Drum-Wiz Brann Dailor has been ripping, grooving, filling and generally shredding the last 20 years with Mastodon, formerly Today is the Day and more recently with his new synth project Arcadea. As a rare drummer who possess the natural ability to blend proggy fills with metal grooves and agile hand patters I knew it'd be a great convo'! We get into Chris Farley, David Letterman, sitting in with the Seth Meyer’s house band, Grammy nominations and awards, the bizarre twist of fate that led to forming Mastodon, fat cats, playing crazy shows in New Orleans, his inherited first drum set, Phil Collins and some of his favorite drummers, what he misses about the early days of touring, plus exploring vocal ideas and the endless pursuit of the killer riff or vocal melody, and the collective excitement that keeps Mastodon going!!!http://www.mastodonrocks.com/https://arcadea.bandcamp.com/Photo Cred: http://svartheim.org/fb.com/svartheimpx instagram.com/svartheimCBBP Sponsor: http://www.neworleansrecordpress.c

Today’s guest was one of my favorite drummers growing up and an absolute character in Mike Ogden who's fusion of proggy weirdness & punk bombast with his 90's band NUT was both a revelation and a monumental influence for me. *We get into wild acid stories, trailer park tramp stamps, favorite New Orleans shows growing up, titi bars, mushrooms and Jimi Hendrix, getting weird out in camps in the woods/swamps, drumming influences plus organ transplants and getting a new lease on life. Holy shit! It's a wild one!!The CBB podcast is brought to you by: http://www.neworleansrecordpress.com/

Kicking off today’s continuation of the New Orleans Drummer series is an incredible drummer in Dan Caro, who is a real inspiration not only in the drumming world but in life. Dan is a burn survivor who at just the age of two was involved in an accident resulting in 3rd & 4th degree burns over 80% of his body. This required over 80 surgeries by the age of 18 and caused the loss of his hands. Despite all the odds stacked against him Dan became not just a drummer but an incredible one at that. We get into the challenges of overcoming the initial limitations in his pursuit of drumming, Dan becoming an author and inspirational speaker, his favorite drummers, studying with the great Johnny Vidacovich, ghost stories and the incredible story that is Dan's life!https://www.facebook.com/OfficialDanCaroPage/https://www.instagram.com/dan_caro/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyLvtvFs40https://www.amazon.com/Gift-Fire-Made-Adversity-Work-ebook/dp/B00E8SIGHY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515547538&sr=8-1&ke

Drummer Michael Dalstrum of Sweden's God Mother is today's guest!! After a scorching set at St Vitus where they ripped/blasted/grooved and destroyed various tracks off their last two records and we caught up to talk about G.M. opening for The Dillinger Escape Plan on one of their three final shows, signing with Party Smasher Inc., blast beats, bus wrecks, first time visiting NYC , his amazing grandfather, Michaels work with recording and mixing his own records, plus touring South Africa/Central America, and Bizarre Czech Forest Festivals!!http://partysmasherinc.limitedrun.com/https://godmothersverige.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/godmotherband/Pic c/o; https://www.facebook.com/FeedbackBooking/

Drummer Des Kinsel is one third of the high-octane, pummeling, viking-stoner- doom, power-trio; High on Fire.We get into spinal fusions, shoulder surgeries, make-up sex, the importance of stretching, 20 years of HOF, The Melvins and Unsane as influences, cassette walkmans, guitar solos, tribal beats, earthquakes, touring advice, German critiques, plus working with Kurt Ballou on the last two records. We even have a few good laughs along the way!!!!http://highonfire.net/https://www.facebook.com/highonfire/https://twitter.com/highonfireband

Tony is the drum-looping- FX sandwich-eating drummer of now duo and former trio Drums & Tuba. Tony toured, recorded and ripped it up with the band for a decade playing upwards of 260 gigs a year and opening for such acts as Primus, Oysterhead, Ani Difranco, Space Head, Galactic and more. We get into how he first became enamored with the drums, killer shows he saw growing up, moving from Austin to Ny to NOLA, the time consuming task of developing real-time loops/samples then incorporating those into their live sets and on records, plus some of his favorite/stranger shows D&T played over the years!!!!!!https://drumsandtuba.bandcamp.com/http://www.tonynozero.com/https://www.instagram.com/tony.nozero/Homnybob; Grind Grind, Humans cassette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wActSE27g3A&t=1s

Not only is Brendan Canty the uber dynamic, dub pocket, punk rockin' , bell blastin' drummer of such monumental bands as Rites of Spring, and Fugazi he also does soundtrack/film scoring work. We get into his new band with Fugazi bassist Joe Lally; The Messthetics, the evolution of Fugazi’s records and the tough task of acknowledging your back catalogue without repeating it, his love for Gretsch kits (he’s only had two all these years), touring then vs now, reel to reel decks and stop watches, growing up seeing Minor Threat and the Bad Brains, how he fell into soundtrack work plus some Fatherly advise as well!!

Chris Metcalf of The Life and Times dynamic ability to balance groove, chops and bombast were on full display when I caught up with them at St Vitus Bar touring in support of their new self titled record. We get into Sonic fingerprints, marching drums, the rich music history of Kansas City and talk about some of our favorite drummers from that area, as well as nerding out on our favorite 90’s bands such as The Jesus Lizard, Barkmarket and Chavez!http://thelifeandtimes.com/https://thelifeandtimes.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/thelifeandtimesmusic/Twitter: @tragicboogiehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmxjimZRtD0&feature=youtu.behttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqmZcBLXKrY