Crash Bang Boom Podcast!

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

Drummer Michael Kadnar splits his time between Downfall of Gaia, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and Black Table as well as teaching when not on tour/recording. We get into touring with The Dillinger Escape Plan /getting his mind blown every night by them, how he got the call to do both DFOG and #12LLU, as well as early stories about playing in concert band as a kid, navigating the ever changing music business, playing festivals vs small venues, reminiscing about our first gigs and first recordings, and our mutual fascination with DEP’s original drummer Chris Pennie. Blast off!!!https://www.facebook.com/michael.kadnar.5https://www.instagram.com/mkadnar/https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/https://downfallofgaia.bandcamp.com/https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/https://blacktable.bandcamp.com/*Photo Cred: https://www.facebook.com/slashlite9

For a quarter century drummer Cheshire Agusta has been the driving force behind Philly punk/jazz trio Stinking Lizaveta!! We get into pit-bull security officers, touring in the mid 90's vs now, camping out, communal living, playing in a band with two brothers and transitioning from classic piano to drums and finding both a greater physical connection and ultimately a greater creative pursuit. WhamO'!!!https://stinkinglizavetaofficial.bandcamp.com/musichttps://www.facebook.com/Stinking-Lizaveta-175571942466657/Photo: INSTA; @polcer

When faced with the task of slamming home some serious punk rock bombast, blasting & grinding or just laying down straight grooves- Brad Fickeisen of Trap Them is on it!!! *I caught up with Brad amidst T.T.’s final run of shows before calling it quits after 15 years where we got into his formative years in marching band, what he’s enjoyed the most about drumming in Trap Them, OCD, his love for Oslo, shows with broken ankles, The Red Chord, touring, cats, dogs, camping & photography! R.I.P. TRAP THEM!!!!!https://www.facebook.com/TrapThem/https://trapthem.bandcamp.com/IG:@trapthem Merch: http://shirtkiller.com/trapthem

Andreas Neuderth aka; "Neudi" has lead a wildly cyclical life in playing drums with not one but TWO bands that he grew up listening to: Manilla Road and Trance. We caught up at Manilla Road's 40th anniversary tour were we talked about German beer, Czech Lot Lizards, autobahns, obsessing over Manilla Road as an 11 year old, playing a historic kit for the tour, C.C.R. , casino's, stoic Germans, avoiding gigs that you're not creatively invested in and "beer flavored seltzer water"! No shortage of laughs! CBBP!!http://www.manillaroad.net/https://www.facebook.com/ManillaRoadOfficial/https://www.facebook.com/Neudi666Trance; Breakout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2BDdiL2x8Photo: https://www.facebook.com/dany.adelfinger

Drummer Phil SanGiacomo of Brooklyn's own Somnuri stops by to talk about drummer docking, lot lizards, palm rudiments, searching Craigslist for sex and/or band auditions, strange bills/gigs, hair loss, grandma slices, forming Somnuri and what the hell the band name means,plus the drummers important roll in the band and learning to mix your own recordings! Let the drawez' fly!https://somnuri.bandcamp.com/album/somnurihttp://www.metalsucks.net/2017/10/11/video-premiere-somnuri-kaizen/https://www.facebook.com/Somnurihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPO_-ScXn_M

Nathaniel Shannon might not be a drummer but he's certainly taken killer photo's of sick drummers over the last decade in NY! We get into the real origin of Aids, who really killed Kurt Cobain, sex changes, handcuffed rednecks on metal cruises, how to piss off a Boston crowd, Crazy Eyehategod/Dillinger Escape Plan stories, gnarly back pieces, our "inner juggalo" plus spit valves and monkey jizz. We also talk about his upcoming Exhibit "Still Screaming" as well as his musical project with local band Godmaker; "Nathaniel Shannon and the Vanishing Twin". Holy Moly Kids! CBB Fucko's!nathanielshannon.comIG: @nathanielshannonnathanielshannonandthevanishingtwin.bandcamp.comStill Screaming Exhibit: UAS house at 329 Broome St., NYChttp://www.stillscreamingshow.com/new-events/

Matt Couto is the drummer of Massachusetts proggy-epic-stoner groove rockers- Elder. Presently on the road for 2017's Reflections of a Floating World the band played a killer set at @stvitusbar in NYC where I was able to catch up with Matt and talk about his favorite shows of all time, early years of playing, the work flow of a band geographically spread out, getting lost in long songs, Ronnie James Dio and Tom Petty (RIP), legal weed, self motivation with practicing and much more! * https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/elderofficial/Twitter: @beholdtheelderInstagram: @elderband

Zack is the speed-demon kit-thrasher with New Orleans blackened-thrash band Goatwhore. He joined the band at 17 years old and has grown up on the road traveling everywhere from the US, to Europe to Tasmania, Australia and more. We get into his upbringing in Arizona, biking for exercise, pre-gig rules, favorite towns, having supportive parents, demoing ideas in the 21 century, plus dealing with downtime and embracing the metal-nomad lifestyle. Blast Away!http://www.metalblade.com/goatwhore/https://goatwhore.bandcamp.com/https://www.facebook.com/thegoat666/Twitter: @GoatwhoreNOLAInstagram: @goatwhorenola