Starting his career at a young age, Taylor Carroll is a Grammy nominated and critically acclaimed musician, producer, songwriter, vocalist and new member of the nineties SoCal hit band Lit. (original drummer Allen Shellenberger died from brain cancer in 2009) With a background in music spanning over two decades, Carroll’s credit as a drummer includes live and recorded work with Taylor Swift, Pillar, two time Grammy award winner Bruce Carroll, (who is Taylor’s dad) and more. Lit’s latest album “T...
May 06, 2022•20 min
Zac Hanson has been a star in the music business since he was a youngster. He and his brothers Taylor and Isaac, known as Hanson, have sold over 16 million records worldwide and have had three Top 20 albums.
Apr 29, 2022•51 min
This week’s Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola features Adam Box, from the Grammy winning country band Brothers Osborne.
Apr 22, 2022•32 min
This week's Drum Channel Podcast Season 2 debut with Billy Amendola features the founder of Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp David Fishof, Bon Jovi’s Tico Torres, and a few special guests including bassist Tony Franklin, Apple Records alumni May Pang, and Pier’s Plasskit, with Manny’s Music Holly Goldrich, and Barry Gibb tour manager, Carlos Guzman. This special “live podcast “ from the Florida Rock and Roll Fantasy camp, recorded and filmed on March 13th, 2022 is a once-in-a-lifetime, “fly on the wal...
Apr 15, 2022•32 min
Jonny Scott is the drummer for the popular Scottish band Chvrches. Jonny started out playing professionally on the Glasgow indie scene with momentum quickly building in his career towards joining British-American indie rock band The Kills. In 2013 Jonny played drums on Chvrches’ first album The Bones of What You Believe, featuring on the tracks “Gun” and "Night Sky.” Jonny has been drumming live for Chvrches since March of 2018 and has been pretty much on the road with them ever since appearin...
Nov 29, 2018•32 min
Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez's professional drumming career began at age seventeen with a USO tour to South Vietnam. At nineteen, he was playing in local big bands, the LACC Studio Jazz Band and the Si Zenter Big Band. During the same time, Hernandez played in a variety of pit orchestras and backing acts, like Bob Hope, Billy Daniels and Gordon McCray. In the 1970s, he played with The Helen Reddy Band and served as the house drummer of "The Midnight Special" television show. There, he played with ac...
Nov 23, 2018•41 min
Virgil Donati is one of the world’s most well known drummers and drum clinicians. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, where he also launched his career. He got his first drum set aged only two and literally hasn’t put the sticks down since. Since the mid-nineties he has been a household name. Residing in Los Angeles, Virgil is travelling the world as a international drumming superstar, as well as a composer and an educator. He has performed and toured with the likes of Tommy Emmanuel, Steve Vai...
Nov 15, 2018•39 min
Drummer JP Bouvet of Lakeville, MN now based in New York is a Berklee alumni who has very much taken control of his career. JP, once won the Guitar Center Drum, beating over 4,500 contestants for the number one spot. After Berklee, JP moved to New York where he works as a session player and an educator. JP runs his own educational drumming resources called JP Bouvet Music where he now has over 400 video lessons covering a wide range of drumming topics including grooves, independence, fills, rudi...
Oct 31, 2018•34 min
David Stanoch is a drummer and educator based in Minneapolis, MN. A student of masters Elliot Fine, Alan Dawson, Max Roach, Jeff Hamilton, Chad Wackerman, he has built an eclectic musical reputation performing with artists from the worlds of jazz, rock, R&B, Broadway, motion picture and television including the Airmen of Note, Jackson Browne, Hiram Bullock, Charo, George Clinton, Sheryl Crow, Richard Davis, Herb Ellis, Robert Goulet, Colonel Bruce Hampton, Scott Henderson, Freedy Johnston, S...
Oct 18, 2018•52 min
Drummer for the band Chicago, Walfredo Reyes Jr. combines the rich history of Latin, Afro-Cuban and World Percussion with the drum set. For Walfredo Reyes, Jr., fusing the two disciplines has been his driving passion. In fact, by blazing this path, Reyes has challenged the technical levels of our instrument. Born in Cuba, raised in Puerto Rico, and culminating his musical style in the U.S., Wally (Walfredo Jr.) learned the traditions from the master, his father Walfredo Sr. He married those prin...
Oct 11, 2018•49 min
