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Paul Delacerda of Warrior Spirit
Hello MD readers! My name is Staff Sergeant Paul Delacerda, drummer for the first all wounded-warrior band, Warrior Spirit. My new weapon of choice after war is music, and I use it to heal others like me. My band is…
Justin Sherrell of Bezoar
Playing drums for me has been a constant game between what’s affordable and what really suits my needs sound-wise. I started on a cheezo CB starter kit when I was maybe fifteen years old. From there, I tried whatever drums…
Dave Sundberg of Sister Sin
Hey, hey drum lovers and random readers! My name is Dave and I play drums in Sister Sin, a heavy metal band all the way from Gothenborg, Sweden. We’re female-fronted but we’ve got bigger balls and more guts than most…
Adam Savage of While She Sleeps
Hey, everyone. My name is Adam Savage, and I play drums in While She Sleeps. We recently toured Europe for a month with Architects, after finishing our U.K. headline touring our first full-length album, This Is the Six. The shows…
Robi Gonzalez of A Place To Bury Strangers
Hello drum world! Robi Gonzalez here, drummer of A Place To Bury Strangers. This is my first time doing this, so bear with me. I was born in Venezuela and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, which remains my favorite place on…
Weasel Walter of Behold the Arctopus
Hi. This is Weasel Walter. For the past three years I’ve played drums in the instrumental metal band Behold the Arctopus. Some people like to lump us into the vague category of “technical metal,” but I’m not sure we really…
Cale Parks of Yeasayer
I am Cale Parks, currently drumming for the band Yeasayer. Percussion began for me at age thirteen, a gateway to after-school basement bands, which led to all-state orchestras, which prompted the scholarship that got the jazz degree, then defiance of…
Greg Faucher of Animal Talk
I subconsciously make weird faces when I play the drums. Sometimes I stick my tongue out. Because of this, some photographers claim they’ve never gotten a good picture of me. I tend to sweat a lot, too. You know who…
John Keefe of Boys Like Girls
Hello drummers, musicians, and other curious readers! My name is John Keefe, though some people call me Beef! I play drums in a band called Boys Like Girls, and I occasionally do some outside session work when I have the…
Pinback’s Chris Prescott
As a musician, I’ve had my fair share of strange experiences over the years. But this for me was one of the most surreal. I decided to write about it here and share it with my fellow drummers. Pinback recently…
The Drum Guru App’s Rob Wallis
A number of people have asked me, “What is Drum Guru, and how and why did you come up with it”? Drum Guru is the first educational app for drummers. As to how and why it was developed, it all…
Jeff Kummer of the Early November
Good day, drummers of the modern world. Jeff Kummer from the Early November here to tell you a little about myself. I started drumming at an early age—about the fourth grade or so. When I was a kid, my older…
Joseph Reilly of the Winter Sounds
As a kid I always envisioned myself as the guitarist in a hair metal band. But from the minute I first sat behind a drumset, I knew it was my place in a band. I learned how to play from…
Logan Baldwin of the Stationary Set
Hello, MD readers! Thanks for stopping by and reading a bit about me. It’s a thrill to be in the company of greatness here at the MD blog. Born and raised in the smallest of small towns in central Kentucky,…
