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September Drum Roll: Robert Shin

9/25/2014

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Robert Shin ( December19, 1989) ,as one third of hard rock/ pop band VARNA, has brought a powerhouse backbone to their latest release, This Time, It's Personal. Aside from the critically acclaimed DIY band appearing on VANS Warped Tour 2014 and recent sponsorship deal with Cold Cocky Whiskey, Rob has always had an intent to be a drummer, beginning with a trip to the principals office after taping out beats on his desk in elementary school.
    Robert was raised in the Los Angeles suburbs of Simi
                                                                               Valley and survuved a turbulent childhood through the
                                                                               power of music. "I've learned to look at pain and welcome it 
                                                                               instead of avoiding it. As pain leaves your body, guess what
                                                                               replaces it: SUCCESS. Lets get something out of it.I fell in
                                                                               love with drumming and the sound of it. I was in love
."
                                                                                    He continued his musical education in PIT program
                                                                               Musician's Institute in Hollywood. Here he played in various
                                                                               bands until answering an ad to join VARNA(formerly known
                                                                               as Living Eulogy) in October 2012. Rob has carved out a
                                                                               place for himself among rock's newest up and coming
                                                                               drummers. 
                                                                               Influences include: Harvey Mason and Joey Jordinson

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September Drum Roll: Billy Brown

9/22/2014

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Billy Brown (December 17, 1965) ,drummer of Alice Sweet Alice, is described by those that meet him as quiet and laid back. It is only when they see him behind the drums that they realize that this stick twirling madman is anything but quiet.
    Billy first became obsessed with music at the tender age of five years old and got his first set of drums at age twelve, after his mother grew tired of him beating the family recliner with screwdrivers while playing along with his Queen records.
    Billy started playing professionally after graduating high school and has been playing ever since. He is also a talented lyricist and has collaborated on several songs over the years. 
    In addition to the drums, he also plays keyboards and guitar. He also wrote the score for an indie movie all in an effort to be a more rounded musician who looks to keep progressing and evolving into
                                                              the future.
                                                              His influences include: Roger Taylor of Queen, Phil Collins, Neil Peart, and Jeff Porcaro

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September Drum Roll: Ken Lloyd

9/18/2014

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Ken Lloyd ( May 13, 1984) from Camden, New Jersey, started playing drums in early grade school. After playing a couple years his parents bought him his first drum kit, at which time it was simply a hobby. When he moved back to North Carolina in 1998 he didn't have many friends in the beginning and spent many hours playing. then he heard the song that changed his life forever, "One" by Metallica. Hearing Lars playing the pounding double bass made him long to be able to do the same. 
    When he entered highschool Ken made friends in bands of their own, and when one of the groups lost their drummer before a show he offered up his abilities. With only three weeks to learn the set, he was unsure of what he was doing, but went for it anyways. He was hooked. He played with the band for the next few years, but they disbanded after highschool. He then joined a thrashband, where he
                                                           played many years and improved his skill, learning he could play at an
                                                           impressive speed. After the thrashband broke up he joined a death
                                                           metal band, which he found was great for his skills and talents, along
                                                           with a great outlet for his ADHD. 
                                                               Nowadays Ken is part of three bands- Screaming By Me, Valence, 
                                                           and Harrowvex. He loves playing and makes it a regular part of his
                                                           schedule, with practices most nights of the week and shows on the
                                                           weekends. His influences include
Mike Portnoy, Terry Bozzio, Tony
                                                            Rowyster Jr.
and Gene Krupa.

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September Drum Roll: Barry Kerch

9/16/2014

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Barry Alan Kerch (August 7, 1976) is a professional musician who plays the drums (and other percussion instruments) in the hard rock band Shinedown. Along with lead vocalist Brent Smith, he is the only remaining original member of the band.
    Kerch is married (his wife's name is Lori), and he holds a Bachelors degree in anthropology from the University of Central Florida. He was part of the band program at the University of Central Florida where he was on the Marching Knights drum line. He is a member of the Eta Sigma chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, the Mu Eta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and was a founder of the local anthropology fraternity at the University of Central Florida. While attending UCF, he worked in the drum department of MARS Music. He also is a 1994 graduate of Rutherford High School in Panama City, Florida, where he was drum major of the band 
                                                                 "The Pride". He is also an avid cook, and posts recipes on the
                                                                 Shinedown website.
Kerch and Lori had their first child, Stella, in
                                                                 January 2011.
                                                                 Equiptment: 
Kerch now plays DDrum. Barry is using a Paladin
                                                                 Maple 7 piece kit in Inca Gold Sparkle with Nickel Plated Hardware.
                                                                 He also uses Pearl Hardware, Evans drumheads, Meinl Cymbals
                                                                 and Promark sticks. Kerch's drum sizes are:
                                                                 22x14 bass drum
                                                                 
26x15 bass drum
                                                                 
13x8 tom
                                                                 
18x16 floor tom
                                                                 
16x16 floor tom
                                                                 
14x14 floor tom (left of hi-hat stand
                                                                 
14x7 Vintone Nickel Over Brass Snare
                                                                  Kerch uses Meinl cymbals, in order from left to right as of 2013:
                                                                  20" Byzance Traditional Med Crash
                                                                  
20" Soundcaster Fusion Power Crash
                                                                 
15" Byzance Dark Hihats
                                                                  
22" Byzance Stadium Ride
                                
20" Soundcaster Fusion Power Crash
  • 20" Byzance Traditional Med Cras

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September Drum Roll: Danny Reilly

9/11/2014

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Danny Reilly (December 19, 1976 ) from Fayetteville, North 
Carolina, is a lover of all kinds of music, but prefers playing thrash and death metal due to the complexity that can accompany these genres.
    Danny has been playing drums since he was 15, yet  did not own a drum kit or play any instruments in school. He simply loved to pound on things and keep a good rhythm. 
He owned and purchased his first drum kit when he turned 20 years old. It was a vintage kit that eventually fell apart with time, all that is left is a 16” floor tom. From then, he purchased a 5
piece Tama Superstar drum kit, which he uses for practice now that he recently purchased his third kit which is a Gretsch 6 piece Ashwood kit, the kit he now plays on stage.
    Danny has played in 4 bands, all of which are metal bands,
                                                                   SouthforK, The River City Nightmare (version one which was
                                                                   more of a death and roll band), The River City Nightmare (version
                                                                   two which was more of a groove band). Both of these bands had
                                                                   different members, they only kept the name for both. The current
                                                                   band he plays in is Kurgan, a thrash deathmetal band with a feel
                                                                   of old school metal.
                                                                        Some of Danny's influencese include:
Sepultura, Pantera,
                                                                   Slayer, Decapitated (old), Metallica (old), Megadeth, Goatwhore,
                                                                   Evile, Jungle Rot, Black Sabbath, Led Zepplin, Cannibal Corpse,
                                                                   Death, Igor Cavalera (Sepultura), Bill Ward (Black Sabbath),
                                                                   Vitek (Decapitated)
and recently Zack Simmons (Goatwhore).
                                                                Equptment: One vintage red 16” floor tom (which is memorabilia
                                                                and not played anymore)
                                                                Tama Superstar – 10” mounted tom, 12” mounted tom, 14” floor
                                                                 tom (which is also a mount tom) 22” kick drum
                                                                Gretsch Ashwood – 8” mounted tom, 10” mounted tom, 
                                                                12”mounted tom, 14” floor tom, 20” kick drum.
                                                                10” B8 Pro Sabian Splash Cymbal, 14” Zildjian Crash, 16”Sabian O
                                                                 Zone Crash, 18” Sabian B8 Pro Crash, German made 20” Avanti
                                                                 Ride, 20”Sabain AA Chinese and 14” Sabian B8 Pro Chinese.
                                                                 Evans Onyx Tom Heads are on hisTama Kit and though Remo
                                                                 heads are now on his Gretsch kit, they will eventually be switched
                                                                 to Evans coated heads. Danny prefer Evans Resonant heads for the
                                                                 bottom batter head, he finds them very easy to tune and that they 
                                                                 hold tuning rather well.

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September Drum Roll: Derek Vautrinot

9/8/2014

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Derek Vautrinot (March 6th 1989) from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, moved to Massachusetts at the age of 3. He started playing drums at 9 years old, took a year break and returned to teaching himself to play at 11.
    Derek is a part of two bands, Alyssa Marie and Shot Heard Around The World, and has been touring since the age of 17.
Shot Heard Around The World has opened up for many national acts and festivals that have featured big names such as Killswitch Engage, Godsmack, Shadows Fall, We Came As Romans, Four Year Strong, Our Last Night, and more.
Alyssa Marie has opened for national acts such as R.A. The Rugged Man, Pappoose, Kill Army, Terminology, and others.
    He has also developed strong standing relationships (NOT endorsements) with Dicenco's Drum Shop (Weymouth, MA) VATER Drumsticks (Holbrook, MA) and Zildjian Cymbals (Norwell, MA) over
                                                                 the years and has had to opportunity to do
5 photo/video shoots
                                                                 with Zildjian Cymbals. He was also featured on the front/back cover
                                                                 of the 2013/2014 Zildjian ear/accessories catalog and
 as the
                                                                 Zildjian Facebook cover photo and on the main page of Zildjians
                                                                 website. 
                                                                 Catalogue link

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September Drum Roll: Holly Fucili

9/5/2014

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Holly Fucili (September 27th, 1982) from Wallace, NC, is a self taught drummer, who, in addition to, plays guitar and bass by ear, as well as writes her own songs. Her influences include Fleetwood Mac, Bush, LIVE, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Cold, 10 Years, and A Perfect Circle.
Holly started playing snare at the age of 10 in 6th grade band. She got her first drum kit, a seven piece TAMA, at the age of 12 and continued playing snare in marching and concert band throughout highschool, making it 7 years without anyone noticing she could not read music. 
Currently the drummer of Clarity For Ransom who formed in November 2011. Holly joined the line up after bassist Nic Martinez found her on a craigslist ad. The band has been playing gigs locally
and opening for National Acts such as: Trapt, Saving Abel, Like A 
                                                                 Storm, and and anandaand    Smile Empty Soul
. They just released a 4 song EP
                                                                 in April called "Follow", which was recorded and mixed by the band.
                                                                 You can also find Holly playing cajon drum with her trio group
                                                                 Formerly Jaded that she started early this year with her Clarity For 
                                                                 Ransom singer Laura Lee White.
                                                                Previous bands:
                                                                I Forgott, RIFT, Loxstep, DownSide, Fall Victim, NeverForever, and
                                                                Rhodestown.
                                                                Equiptment:
                                                                5 piece Pearl Exports with Zildjian and Sabian cymbols
                                                                  
 


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September Drum Roll: Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan

9/2/2014

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James Owen Sullivan (February 9, 1981 – December 28, 2009), more commonly known by his stage name The Rev (shortened version of The Reverend Tholomew Plague), was an American musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer and
founding member for the American
heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold. The Rev was critically acclaimed for his work on Avenged Sevenfold albums, and contributed entire songs written by himself, such as Chapter Four, Afterlife and Almost Easy. He was also the lead vocalist/pianist in Pinkly Smooth, a side project where he was known by the name Rathead, with fellow Avenged Sevenfold member and childhood best friend, guitarist Synyster Gates, and he was the drummer for Suburban Legends from 1998 to 1999.
    Sullivan grew up and lived in Orange County, CA. He received his first pair of drum sticks at the age of five and own drum set at the
                                                                 age of ten.
In high school, he started playing in bands. 
                                                                 Before leaving to join Avenged Sevenfold as one of the band's
                                                                 founding members, Sullivan was the drummer for the
third wave
                                                                 ska
band Suburban Legends. At the age of twenty he recorded his
                                                                 first album with Avenged Sevenfold titled
Sounding the Seventh
                                                                 Trumpet
. His early influences included Frank Zappa and King
                                                                 Crimson
. The Rev said in a Modern Drummer Magazine interview that
                                                                 "I was raised on that stuff as much as rock and metal."

                                                                    Later in life he was influenced by drummers Vinnie Paul, Mike
                                                                 Portnoy
, Dave Lombardo, Lars Ulrich, Joey Jordison and Terry
                                                                 Bozzio
. He even had a "visual influence", Tommy Lee, on which he
                                                                 commented that "I never thought I'd have one of those."
Sullivan
                                                                 had a signature ability called 'the double-ride thing' or 'The Double
                                                                 Octopus', as the Rev called it, "just for lack of a better definition".
                                                                
 'The double-ride thing' is a technique that can be heard on tracks
                                                                 such as "Almost Easy", "Critical Acclaim", "Crossroads", and 
                                                                "Dancing Dead" in which Sullivan doubles up at a fast tempo
                                                                 between the double bass and ride cymbals.
                                                                                                                                                             
(Source: Wikipedia)


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