Author: Brendan

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I was chatting with Bill Zildjian a few months back, and we spoke about “influential drum recordings.” I came up with this list…

TOP TEN:

1. Jimi Hendrix, Wait Until Tomorrow – Mitch Mitchell
2. The Police, Miss Gradenko – Stewart Copeland
3. The Cure, Untitled – Boris Williams
4. Paul Simon, Late In The Evening – Steve Gadd
5. Devo, Satisfaction – Alan Myers
6. James Taylor, Country Road – Carlos Vega
7. Parliament, Give Up The Funk – Tiki Fulwood
8. Los Lobos, Revolution – Pete Thomas
9. Fabulosos Cadillacs, Matador – Fernando Ricciardi
10. Sergio Mendes, Magdalenha – Carlinhos Brown

Honorable Mentions:

1. Genesis, No Reply At All – Phil Collins
2. James Taylor, Got to Stop Thinking Bout That – Steve Jordan
3. Tori Amos, A Sort of Fairytale – Matt Chamberlain
4. John Scofield, Blue Matter – Dennis Chambers
5. Bob Marley, Could You Be Loved – Carlton Barrett
6. The Meters, Just Kissed My Baby – Zigaboo Modeliste
7. Joshua Redman, Jig-A-Jug – Brian Blade
8. Carlos Vives, Pa’ Mayté – Pablo Bernal
9. Shawn Colvin, Sunny Came Home – Shawn Pelton
10. Blur, Song 2 – Dave Rowntree

* David Bowie, Sound and Vision – Dennis Davis
* Autolux, Turnstile Blues – Carla Aznar
* Andrés Calamaro, Loco – Steve Jordan

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– A Tribe Called Quest: We Got it From Here… (thank you 4 your service)

– Lera Lynn: Resistor

– School of Seven Bells: SVIIB

– Meshuggah: The Violent Sleep of Reason

– Gallant: Ology

– Deftones: Gore

– Tegan And Sara: Love You To Death

– Gojira: Magma

– David Bowie: Blackstar

– Matt Chamberlain: Comet B

– Stranger Things: Vol. 1

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This past April, I began working with two lovely artists named Tegan And Sara. We are currently out on a world tour promoting their new album, “Love You To Death.”

Sharing the stage with me are keyboardist Gabrial McNair (from No Doubt’s band), and bassist Eva Gardner (from Pink’s band). The concept of this live show is to bring all of their eight albums’ worth of hits under one delicious umbrella of “electro pop.” It’s been pretty fun updating the arrangements using synthesizers, samplers, and electronic drums(!).

So far, we’ve made it to Asia, Australia, The UK, and North America. The big plan is to continue throughout 2017, hitting all the major areas like South America, Europe, Asia (again), Australia (again), and North America (again).

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This was a fun afternoon of live performances on Univision.  I had the fortunate opportunity to play in the house band backing up such artists as Carlos Vives, Fonseca, Lila Downs, Julieta Venegas, Debi Nova, Miguel Bosé, Jessy & Joy, Natalia LaFourcade, and Jorge Drexler.