For the past several years, Jade Entertainment has hired me to play drums for their Chinese New Year concerts in Las Vegas, etc. This year, the featured entertainers were Jacky Wu and Maria Cordero. Fun times!
Bandmate Eric Holden asked me to join in on Randy Wooten’s new album. I was happy to share the drum duties with my other buddy, Craig “C-Mac” MacIntyre. We got some very cool, trashy, junkyard drum sounds. No cymbal crashes allowed. Richard Furch engineered the heck out of the sounds, too!
in no particular order…
(1) Caffe Vita (Silverlake, CA)
(2) Cognoscenti Coffee (Culver City, CA)
(3) Revielle Coffee (San Francisco, CA)
(4) Fix Coffee (Echo Park, CA)
(5) Proof Bakery (Atwater Village, CA)
(6) Intelligentsia (Silverlake, CA)
Two of the most demanding aspects to the Shakira gig that I can think of… is first, the variety of styles in which we, as a band, have to play. We do everything from latin folkloric music, to arabic beats, to rock-&-roll, to super-pop, to piano ballads, to dance and electro stuff. The second is accuracy. It is a challenge to play two-years’ worth of concerts and nail each one of them perfectly. And by perfect, I mean playing the set from top to bottom, nailing the pocket and the click track, and still keep things exciting and fresh on stage.
Awesome Albert Menendez asked me to record the drum tracks for an artist he is producing named Kandia “Crazy Horse.” R&B meets country folk. Fun stuff.