Chad Smith | Red Hot Chili Peppers Grooves & Fills

bam number eight I love playing the drums so much of a music I love being in a band all of its wackiness Jam learn that beat then you can be in a band in the [ __ ] Hall of Fame and just be playing stadiums when you're 60 years old there we go and I'm red ladies and gentlemen welcome to drummio [Music] [Applause] [Music] happy birthday [Music] well to all of you out there this is a this is gonna be a fun a fun hang Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is finally here at drumeo yes it's been a long time coming we've wanted to have you on here for so long you're one of my favorite drummers too so this is I'm pretty stoked to be sitting here so you're a man of fine taste well you know had some powerful for any of you who don't know Chad go see him on tour you guys are playing all summer you've got shows in the fall with the Chili Peppers yeah you've also played with a whole bunch of bands that I didn't even realize you played with the Dixie Chicks I did uh Ozzy Osbourne Iggy Pop Eddie Vedder um you've been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame oh my God is anyone in yeah pretty crazy if you stick around long enough if you hang in there and you'd be nice to the right people and try your hardest kids can play from the heart no we're we're so grateful to be able to still doing our thing and we love playing and uh you know just really happy and and fortunate to be um rocking yeah yeah it's great lastly before we jump into this uh we do this kind of thing inside of drumeo all the time you can go to drumeo.com forward slash trial and you can see a bunch of stuff that we were filming with Chad which is going to be coming later in the year uh and lots of other stuff all the Chili Peppers transcriptions and tracks and all that stuff so yeah lots of cool things happening over there sweet so we're talking all about the drum parts of the Red Hot Chili Peppers yeah parts that you've played uh and are still playing some of these I guess we've dug up and you haven't played in a while yeah you I needed to refresh your course on 70s it's gonna be fun I got to remember so if I don't play them exactly like the record just you know be kind and I wrote them anyway so yeah you can do whatever you want I Parts exactly so before we jump into the first one we're going to do another uh full play through this is give it away so this song Give It Away um we recorded in 1991 with the the mighty Rick Rubin our first record we did with him and we were set up in this house in Laurel Canyon in Hollywood a big sort of haunted house supposedly and the drums were in the in the ballroom sort of the the house a bigger area where I did most of the drum tracks in that room and the other guys were we were all real tight and like we always do we're playing but for Give It Away we felt like we we wanted a um a kind of bigger brighter sound so we set up a kit and next to that room was a they called it the solarium but I don't know for whatever a lack of bitter word and it was very bright it had um windows and real hard surfaces everywhere which isn't necessarily always great for recording drums because it's too harsh and the symbols can sound harsh but we were like at that point we're like let's try anything we would just record in the bathroom or John's in his bedroom and um so we set up a very minimal kit because we give it away it's just really kick snare hi-hat and maybe a symbol or two and Brendan O'Brien was the engineer at the time and he used four microphones one on the kick one on a snare and two other ones about four feet away and that's the drum sound of give it away that's it yeah so you don't need fancy stuff sometimes these guys got more but yeah very minimal and um but it makes you play a certain way sometimes when you hear that and knowing that you know you can't other things would maybe get lost because it's a it's kind of a roomy bigger brighter sound so that's that's what's on this little number nice yeah let's uh let's hit it you wanna get together [Music] a little differently [Music] way you can wait now [Music] give it away foreign [Music] [Applause] give it away now foreign [Music] [Music] so you're you're actually talking earlier today when we were filming some other stuff but your whole approach to the hi-hat and always having it moving yeah is that something you always did or is that something hmm I think I was maybe again I don't really know yeah I don't really paid that much attention I think as a young child I had a lot of nervous energy always moving bouncing driving my family crazy and I don't know if I always did it but I was more conscious of it when um as I told you before with when Stuart Copeland and his [Music] his hi-hat stuff which was incredible and so I was more um yeah it was more kind of conscious of what was going on the hi-hat and yeah I just think if you're all your limbs at least for me all the limbs are moving all the time it's like the Pistons in an engine and it's just always it's part of the flow and fluidity of of all your limbs moving in concert so yeah yeah I just do it and it's part of the sound it's part of this good or bad into um ghost a lot on my and I can drive Engineers crazy sometime again if I think like oh get off drum and like you know I don't know I just yeah I just I just do my thing and and that's what it is so but yeah it's part of this nervous energy that I have yeah looking at some other stuff from that record I think okay we're gonna go from the older stuff and kind of work our way into some of the newer Parts okay but uh on that record blood sugar Sex Magic the title track yeah is really cool I know that one hi-hat Groove okay yeah um we were playing that with one of the later songs in the in the that came out um we were kind of ready to record and Emi hadn't left let we were trying to get off Emi records and go to another label and there was just some hold up on that so we kept writing and I remember John came in with that riff and I was playing that beat I think it was Fleet that said um do like pea soup pea soup say what do like you know pea soup oh so [Music] so there's no but there's no kick on the it's not it's by itself [Music] so all you chili pepper tribute fans out there in Brazil I see you're not playing that big Quake correctly and if I have police is gonna come and give you a ticket Chad's gonna end up at your house and he'll know [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] hypnotic kind of vibe to it yeah it's it and yeah and just in the music as well like and then it kind of slinks away into verse and Anthony does the rap and then it gets big in the course so yeah um yeah that was I was really happy that one that might not have ever happened if we had not had a little more time to just keep writing yeah so we have um lots of songs on that record nice uh another cool one off that record is uh the one with double drums or two drum tracks pan all right power of the quality correct so what's uh what was the reasoning behind doing that was that something you always wanted to try out or no well there you go uh uh no so we cut the song again we took the tree because again this pretty straight you know kickstand hot and not a lot of fills and I think that was a concern like they wouldn't be able to get the the close sound so again it was the Give It Away set up this was after get away and let's check out for the bright sound okay we go for the bright sound so I went in there we cut the track and then I believe it was Rick Rubin who said you know I'm missing the Dynamics sure Little Ghost Notes and the tighter sound so do you think you could just go play it on the other kit and I was like yeah but like exactly because I don't really think out all the parts and the fills like maybe the the grooves and the Beats but the fills and stuff are kind of I don't I'm not I don't really I'm just kind of sometimes Wing nose and so um yeah I went in on a little kit and played along to to the track but it was right after it was literally like 10 minutes later we went you know yeah what about this and so it was fresh and so I just went in and played and I did and I did it in one take oh crazy so if you listen really hard the is two drum sets one's panned on the left the tight one I don't know which one but a tight one here and the live one there and there's little differences maybe of their crash or something but for the most part it's it's um there's no clicks or anything I just played along with myself there nice do you want to play just a little bit of that group sure with the track yeah I'm trying to remember okay swings [Music] what's up [Music] [Laughter] yeah so that's that chorus Groove is so sick like the the double back beat on the snare yeah there's a lot of like cool things happening yeah a little the little thing yeah and it's not a again I don't I don't know Brandon if it's like I've just been doing it so long or it's just kind it's just like I'm just it's I don't even like really think about it yeah anymore it's not like I just kind of so I have to really I Could Have Lied or something like that no no yeah I'm trying to play like um the Gators for the Neil Young record or something you know and um so I have to kind of make a have to be you know think about it like don't do your yeah no stop stop dribbling when Chad gets mad at himself in the studio you know why the ghosts the ghosts when you were uh when you were growing up did you listen to a lot of like funk music like meters and all those guys because a lot of people say uh the Chili Peppers have like a funk influence sound yeah was that mostly from flea from yourself you know I grew up outside of Detroit Michigan and loved music from a young age I listened to the radio before I start buying my little records but um you know it was at that time in the in the late 60s um you know Motown was on the radio and it was the AM radio and the hits of the day it could be you know Janice Joplin and then Jimi Hendrix and then some you know pop song and um it was just kind of all over the point that's what it was cklw the Motor City but actually the station was in Windsor Ontario Oh really yeah number eight on the dial anyway it totally and um you know a Spirit in the Sky it was like it was like everything and so um I think but just but having that Detroit influence just in the air and like and we gotta remember back then Motown was huge it was The Temptations and The OJ's and The Supremes Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye um Martha Vandella is like the Four Tops it was just so many great artists and and that was on the radio a lot so that definitely got ingrained somehow and I would go to bed at night and no radio would be next to my bed and my mom okay time to go to bed oh okay Mom good night she would go better than internship station I would put it on and like I would fall asleep and it would be on and I'm sure it like subconsciously yeah seeped into my whatever so um I had older brother and he was really had a great record collection and um so yeah he loved you know a lot of different stuff and um sly and a Family Stone like you know those records were incredible so yeah but it was I was just listening to him I wasn't thinking like Oh I'm a drummer and what's the drummer doing this was a little bit later that that happened but just in you know just being a music fan I just loved all kinds of music so I you know yeah there's there's good funk in the water in Detroit though for sure another one off that record I think this is like a drummer's favorite off of that record uh mellowship in B major B minor B minor E minor [Laughter] now I don't think we've ever if we did we've played it like once yeah but for whatever reason we've never yeah played this one I don't know you know there's a lot of songs in that record but um um this was one of the earlier ones that we had when we were started writing for this I remember that and um I don't know is it is it in B minor I'm second guessing myself we're drummers it's B major okay yeah see I know I was right I knew that I hit it [Music] thank you look at everything turn it up here thank you [Music] [Music] so you're you're bringing your hand down to play the like the back beat on that Groove correct that's kind of the dip I just I think I foreign I wanted to get a more loopy kind of hip-hoppy hip-hop [Music] I probably couldn't get that same if I was a better drummer but yeah that that yeah I don't know it's cool it's only been 32 years and you've never played it right no we've never been alive but um yeah that's it that's kind of a cool nice slingy funky Jam [Laughter] it's going to be a long long bruh we're working chat working me so hard trying to jam in a week's worth of [ __ ] in one day that's right hey you agreed to it so I did so I did partially on you I'm very I'm very happy seriously nice people um one that you wanted to talk about breaking the girl oh and you said there's something oh right so Mitch Mitchell inspired stuff in this one correct so again we're writing Our Song and the song in three kind of Swing thing and you so I was playing the Beats of the song Breaking the Girl initially liked it fine yeah fine generic pedestrian but not bad and we're playing it in rehearsal and I think it was flea that was like that's cool but what it went out like um like um like like a Mitch Mitchell like what does Mitch do in like manic depression and I was like oh okay so we all do them but then he incorporates the toms so I sort of did my own version of that and it turned into like a part and I remember Rick was like oh that's great that's very like Ringo and I was like oh um and so I I Incorporated this rolling Tom thing and it ended up being kind of a musical hook so to speak which is kind of cool for a drummer when you can come up with something that's that's a little out of the ordinary not a regular just as you know sort of regular beat and it works and it's Musical and yeah um a little 12 string number little song called breaking the girl I'll try to play it we've been a while but oh it's uh see what I can do all right [Music] thank you [Music] you really do prayers [Music] again [Music] really loving your feelings [Music] such a cool part where that that's like the foundation of the song almost well I mean like in a way like rhythmically somewhat I suppose um and the other thing too is that the drums don't come in right at the top they creep in a la My Sweet Lord I don't know if you know that song by George Harrison he got sued for but I remember thinking like oh that's cool because it's like again it's like a hypnotic pattern and same thing and it's like what if the drums kind of snuck in and so he did that and um yeah that's cool did you do this did you do this live a lot or is this not a lot no we we've done it we've done it but it's not it's not a staple people like the song though we should do it more yeah maybe we will nice I don't know we're gonna jump ahead a little bit okay uh next up we've got Scar Tissue okay it's kind of a cool reverse groove on this with the like ghosting and I don't know yeah it's kind of swingy little thing a early number that we wrote referring to blood sugar sessions and um little breaths that John come in with and yeah I'm just trying to stay out of the way in this one of my kids literally like just keep a good Groove yeah do some hopefully interesting things on on the yeah the hi-hat kind of has some yeah yeah cool that's uh yeah yeah cool people want to hear it yeah [Music] you could understand [Music] she scared [Music] she said it's a lonely [Music] love you so I've spoken with a broken jaw step outside but not to brawl in all the sweet weird call the fall I'll make it to the Moon [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] that I wish you saw songs just a slinky kind of you know creepy I think like one thing that makes this cool is we're still bouncing the left foot yeah and playing at the same time yeah kind of gives it a cool feel yeah so when you're coming up with just Parts in general um into my my hat foot thing you like it too it's cool and it's like the closest thing to me it's really good what the [ __ ] are you doing I don't know it's a mind of it too what is this what is this I know I know I know um are you and Lee usually coming up with parts like are the two of you jamming to come up with parts or is it all four of you it's different um Through The Years obviously but like um no we usually it's um the three of us and John and and and and and flea myself and Dave Navarro when he was in the band and Josh when he was in the band but um and Anthony's always there but he's been listening and if he hears something he'll kind of jump in and Scott something or he's just in there for the vibe and I really like that that's good that's cool what about this so we're all together and that's I think it's a really important element of of the way that we come up with music but no um yeah it's it's as a drummer I prefer to play with other people at this point and you know practicing his grade and you know I do get to play a lot I'm really fortunate to play a lot in in you know obviously my band and other situations but um I just it's you know kind of an accompaniment instrument in some ways and I just like to play with other people and and vibe off them and and um you know improvise or whatever it is and it's just it's more satisfying or gratifying that way now but so yeah I think um if we come up with with we'll get in a room and and just and just you know somebody's got a riff or an idea or just Jam or both um I mean like last night maybe just play between song we're always like playing yeah I think that's one of the cool things about your shows is it doesn't feel like it's always this perfectly produced um you're going to see like the band interaction yeah and I think that's like the magic of it yeah I mean I it's one of our strengths you know and I have to say when Rick was like you know you guys should record all together in a room because there's a certain sound that you have when you all play together and not a lot of people can do it it's very easy in modern recording to just go in and do stuff and chop it up and over dub everything and and they lose the performance aspect of it and that's a I think um at least in our group and rock music and you know we want the Arc of the performance and and um playing together there's something an intangible chemistry a magic that happens when you all are hitting that Groove man and it's like you're always trying to capture that you don't always get there but when you do it's it's magical and sometimes when you make records you get lucky and and you can get that lightning in a bottle and it's exciting but we do have a thing for I don't know why but we do it works it sounds like us so yeah so we we dig it you know and live yeah for sure there's no stand here so the light hits you and make sure the Pyro goes off and then yeah it's not us if you came for that I'm sorry go to Rammstein yeah good show no you're not gonna get a lot of fire in the chili pepper shell yeah but you will get to see your uh your new gong yeah I got a big well yeah I have a big gong it's 52 inches very big and uh we were in Singapore and I again the first thing we do when we come up on stage I go lock up and I like earlier today and I thought it's it's big it's very large and it wasn't in the wherever it was supposed to be and I hit it and it just fell off a spinal tap yeah sure people loved it I was like okay show must go on but yeah it's uh the people who plays too so nice and they made me a nice big gong we uh off the same record sure yeah we were jamming to this on the way of the show last night around the world oh it's cool like versus grooving that one okay let's hear it see what I got Bam Bam [Music] all around the world [Music] [ __ ] up [Applause] the Life is Beautiful around the world [Music] come back baby [Music] Wisconsin [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] just come with me Wanna Know [Music] foreign I feel like I'm learning which songs you really like by how long you play them that one's kind of fun yeah oh do it hurt my leg more than my [ __ ] me this is uh drummy alive lessons we've done in a while no I think so no it's more like a like a comedy sketch no um it's great yeah that's you know it's a fun one yeah any like stories about that song Or recording it or um I just noticed there's like a thing in the I know I know for sure and they're like uh come kind of like a drum machine Kick Drum percussion thing in there yeah that you didn't know about it not really I didn't do it Chad learns uh new things about his own songs what's that in there yeah but you like playing it we do we play we play that one quite a bit yeah that sometimes it's an opener it's either kind of can't stop or that one nice yeah off the same record we've got other side yeah next up okay yeah you know me clue you in on a little something yeah Brandon and you uh find people out there in the German Hill world if you haven't figured it out yet you go back and have a look I'm basically playing the same beat just faster and slower juicy foreign or [Music] a Ringo Starr also they have a lot of cool stuff but when he played a straight beat it's a common pattern for rock music um but it's how you do it the little flourishes little things the Dynamics the things that round it out and make it hopefully something unique but just saying that's the lesson right there there's no shortcut kids work hard but if you could do this [Music] up another side I'm gonna do it in a minute a little quicker than that Californication [Music] two really popular songs anyway so that's the formula it works then you can be in a band in the [ __ ] Hall of Fame and just be playing stadiums when you're 60 years old there we go and I'm wrecked oh it's so good such an [ __ ] but the people love it or not oh man but no you know a little more to it yeah a little more confident playing like good Dynamic but there's a couple good ones that work yeah they work and like the way you play it too and yeah it's a way yeah exactly you know but but I'm just saying like the basic pattern yeah yeah here comes what [Music] not on the record [Music] hello hello maybe I should get the going out yeah [Music] photograph [Music] [Applause] [Music] y take it on the other side take it [Music] up [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] I love how long whatever [Music] foreign [Music] awesome [Music] foreign and only one beat the secret sauce right there that's it about but if you play it like you mean it with some intent if not go flip [ __ ] burgers at McDonald's yeah even though I didn't miss a beat with this uh yeah broken piece of lumber yeah no I want to do the honors nice one don't believe [Applause] special sound it's a new Vader stick now you guys familiar with this one I can play the drums and then afterwards you go Shake somebody okay weapon and a drumstick okay well she got in your bag of Trix up huh Let's uh let's jump to by the way okay there's a one of my favorite grooves yeah I think it's it's the Tom Groove yeah play some Toms on that one yeah and another cross stick songs are popular for some reason if I had a drum key at drumiel yeah is there a drum King to be had how many drummers does it take to find a drum yeah five and one to [ __ ] about it um [Laughter] thank you um yeah under the bridge has acrostic yeah um was the one that they just did oh uh other side other side has caustic and by the way has cross stick there you go I think and those are like popular songs I think every song on the next record can have across tickets you should do it [Music] [Music] by the way [Music] marketing [Music] gotcha punch up [ __ ] [Music] Softail [Music] myself [Music] it's over cash back Heavy Glow by the way I try to say I'd be there waiting for Canada the way I tried to say [Music] by the way [Music] I try to stay away [Music] waiting for [Music] so I want to hear that version of the next show [Music] [Music] so it's so it's you know it's interesting because you write we write these songs oh in a period of time we get in the room and the six months eight months whatever it is and then we go right in and record them we do pre-production we work online at the arrangements the best we can and then we go in and perform them as best we can but we never take them out live and you know playing them and working out and often they change and they morph into something else and oh that's cool if I did that or when I put that part or that guy does this so I'll do that typical stuff and songs are always evolving and so I was just playing that's like I play it so differently does it really go exactly with the I'm accenting vocals and yeah I think it's kind of cool that like they they they're they just get to keep yeah evolving and I'm sure that goes with the whole band yeah absolutely absolutely and we're always improvising we stick to the parts that are the parts that sound like the song but yeah the interplay and um there's a groove of some tempos everything and sometimes I wish we took him out and play them but like it's just the way we do it so yeah it's fine it's great um but they do they do change and and grow yeah like children yeah yeah nice songs are like your kids once you finish them put them out and it's like for everybody else and then they get to enjoy them or not yeah that's fine baby's out we love it good looking kid I think that's a good analogy are you uh you a fan of drum solos I am yeah drum solo I'm not a like a drum solo a drum composition or uh none of that I mean I love guys that like especially like great Josh drummers you know the Tony Williams and the Elven Jones and the you know art blakey's and and those guys like it's it's amazing what they can do um but then you know like the rock drum so came into um fashion in the late 60s and Sunday Ginger Baker and eating paste John bottoms famous for his drum so so many great drummers that do that um I feel like I really get to play is like everything I want to play in a in a show in a in a in a concert that we play sometimes I'll do a little drum intro before like Danny California or something yeah but it like I don't know I have such respect for the virtuoso players the guys you know the [ __ ] Virgil to 90s and then Thomas Langs just like what the [ __ ] is that it's another world it's another world I have respect for it I think it's amazing but it's just again it comes on like taste like what you like and like I would never use that in the music that I play yeah um not to say that I should this shouldn't continue to try to get better on your instrument always but just you know like I've never had a like a kick pedal I just finally got a double for Eddie Vedder we did a tour with Ed and we had us we were covering a song called give blood by Pete tencent yeah Simon Phillips put an amazing track Pinot Paladino incredible chunk Ed really wanted to do that and so it has double kick at the end I'm like okay I [ __ ] got the double kicker and it was fun it took a little bit to get it get used to it but what I found myself doing it's like throwing it in like oh really yeah gratuitous great for endings yeah [Music] you know but um like with the Chili Peppers it's not oh gee I wish we had a double kick for that one so yeah or something it just doesn't come up on my thing so yeah that's just one aspect but just soloing I don't know I'll let you do the solos yeah you could you're good with that no maybe next time I don't know I'll practice and I'll come up with something all right next time I'll do Othello yeah sounds good all right I got one right now you guys ready I just thought of it I did that I gotta say okay miss it practicing this for a long time South Americans we just put our dates up for you guys coming to see in November from solo called one one two one two four and there you have it hey hey I thought it was great a lot of a lot of I know I'll let take some time and digest it's still processing I get it I get it I know it's a lot to take in yeah yeah that's what she said what huh [Music] wow this guy unhinged this is bad this is what happens when you stream on drums late at night no no I'm sorry I'm sorry it's so good it's so bad the one note something yeah yeah the people are loving it yeah I'm sure they are yeah they are this is one song that grabbed my attention on get this so the first Chili Peppers album yeah I ever got was I'm with you and I was like 14 when that came out 2011. 11. so there's uh yeah I know I just aged myself God ladies not only does he lie on this Tinder thing but here at Romeo as well yeah okay everybody lies now it doesn't matter no one checks that [ __ ] uh yeah that cowbell groove on right okay I'm gonna try to replicate is who uh played on that record and um yeah but I gotta hear it man it's been a while we haven't played that one a while [Music] oh she 'll memorabilia amazing [Music] foreign [Music] thank you God [Music] oh my God so the cowboy part was that overdubbed were you playing that no that Mario overdubbed that yeah and that attracted with us he did a lot of trucking which is kind of not really common with like having to kill it this year and that sort of bandwidth percussion is is the focus of prevalent not he but he tracked with us quite a bit uh you put it in Atoms for Peace with flea when she was in the band with Tom York and some other great drummer Joy who will won her warwicker how do you say this that's how I say it yeah it could be wrong and Joey was in it and and Morrow played percussion and um and we kind of caped them yeah nice guy he needs to be David Byrne now and doing the whole crazy David Byrne thing which is wild amazing yeah there's a we don't have the track loaded up for this but there's a lot of people in the chat asking about your groove on Charlie oh Stadium Arcadium yeah I know that one uh uh see how does Charlie go yeah oh my God I don't know tell me that's right well uh we'll ask all the the good people out there if Chad played it right yeah it's a lot of songs and my small P Brains it's difficult to process you've done pretty good all day though I know we did I played a bunch of songs and like I made through yeah I got through and stuff sometimes it's just in the DNA or whatever muscle memory thing even uh even soap on a rope right it's like first time through yeah and that's weird it's a little bit tricky a little bit a little bit tricky a little tricky I don't know if you can handle that yeah um I just love playing a drums so much I love music I love it makes me so happy and and and I've been playing since I was seven and it's like I wasn't seven I didn't want to be a rock guy or whatever I just loved music and wanted to play the drums and so I followed my passion and you know I just feel so fortunate to be able to do this and do it for my life and um you know work hard at it and and then just be fortunate in luck and hard work and all kinds of things that come into play that you know you find the right people and like-minded and but it's all ups and downs you know just like life so but oh man I love being in a band with all of its wackiness yeah it's a team you know it's like a team sport almost you gotta have that chemistry you put people together on teams and just just the best guys they don't necessarily gel and I think bands are the same way you know but we're um still doing it because we love it and I'm passionate about it and I think we'll keep doing that as long as that is the case and when it's not and I don't think we will and that'll be fine we've been a band for 40 years oh [ __ ] a few years I'm crazy it's crazy wild I uh I wanted to ask you about um we've gone through a lot of songs I know pretty good I didn't know if you'd actually uh buy this idea but what actually got to [ __ ] play like you know I wanna I wanna what about Bohemian Rhapsody can you sing it for us no but Taylor Hawkins can sing that [ __ ] okay well I actually wanted to I wanted to ask you about Taylor um where's my my Taylor Hawkins shirt which I haven't played at the concert yeah you guys are really tired yeah my boy my guy yeah it's been a year um yeah I mean when you bring the drumming Community here but he knows what a incredible human being he was it's weird to say but um yeah we met he always loves to tell the story used to anyway I love to tell a story when we met he was with Atlantis Morissette they were playing a festival we were in Belgium like the Water festival something like that and um I knew I knew of him because I remember seeing him in the video and her thing was blowing up and I'm like the blonde hair and the drummer he looks good you know that's that's cool and flea and Dave Navarro played on the song um like her first big hit whatever that was they they actually played bass and guitar on it um You Oughta Know yeah huh we'll be at Bohemian Rhapsody I'm not going to be singing should have got up with the karaoke the other night I didn't want to embarrass myself anyway so I met him at this festival and I'm the rage had played and Alana's played early and we were playing later and I was eating and kind of the catering room in a big fat steak beer and like fries and we're supposed to plan like an hour it's a long time ago yeah 97 maybe he comes up to he's like hey man I'm a drummer oh yeah Taylor big fan I love chili peppers blah blah and I was like oh man it's so cool we sit down and we shooting [ __ ] and I'm just like pounding beers and eating his big fat he loves using Chad just eating his giant steak intriguing like all these beers are gonna play like how can you do that and then um Dave Navarro came up and said yeah we gotta we got a jam and and and Taylor is a huge Jane's Addiction fan that's right so Dave was in our group at the time and again because we gotta like run through these songs or something before I'm like ah don't worry about it's gonna be fine I don't know don't worry it's good I'll be down and I kind of blew him off a little bit like I'm talking to Taylor we're having a good time yeah oh my God you told David to fire the [ __ ] off I can't believe them oh my God I really you know we're having a good chat I'm still eating yeah and then he remembers this I don't put I had a I went gambling the night before at a casino and I never win ever and I won playing roulette and I had all these I had a big lot of cash and I pulled up he was like and I like put money down your tip or whatever and he's like oh my God my God you guys I thought you got like paid for the gig beforehand and like you're just like the whole thing it was really great and I said come sit behind me man when we play yeah okay comes and I'm doing all this crazy [ __ ] and whatever anyway that was our first meeting that we ever had and then later of course she joins the Foo Fighters and we toured with them quite a bit 99 in 2000 and that's where we became my group really really close and and he's just a like he was amazing person and I love him miss him so much hey can you say oh I missed someone every day I never thought about him every day when he was here but I literally like for the past year it's weird man it's so weird yeah but um and then the only other one was too is um he's a I asked him to be the Godfather of my son Beckett our second son I said Taylor do you think he would you know be the Godfather for Rebecca and he's like well yeah yeah yeah what do I have to do I don't really know God I think nothing deals I can do that that's awesome yeah I got that no problem so he's funny as [ __ ] man and just I said amazing musician I miss him and you know um he would he would definitely come up here and do this yeah and your tribute to him was amazing and all the Foo Fighters music and that was pretty cool yeah appreciate that well done yeah do you have uh before we do those last two songs if anything else you wanted go over any uh words of wisdom no no no no when you lived as long as me you're just happy to be alive and playing music and yeah no um yeah let's play uh some old chestnuts from way back from the you know yeah so under the fridge we'll start with under the fridge yeah and then we'll do that close out with can't stop right after again another cross stick special so so here's there's one takeaway from this little thing kids you're starting in a band you're writing some new music mellow section in the beginning cross stick I can love that [ __ ] all right and then if you need a beat to go with it [Music] watch under the bridge I guarantee you had both things I love it Chad thanks so much for coming out I love you thank you amazing to have you finally here my pleasure We Gotta Have It Again absolutely it's a blast thank you everyone jeromeo all 400 of you guys thank you so much yeah the best nobody out there and yeah yeah thank you all for watching and hanging out with us and yeah we're gonna close with uh starting with under the fridge okay [Music] wow foreign [Music] [Music] City I live in the City of Angels lonely as I am together we cry [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] take me all the way and I don't ever wanna run up because [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] can't stop addicted your best friend please [Music] tell me [Music] [Applause] the gender of options [Music] answer me [Music] do you live [Music] how about you somebody knew it's like you almost [Music] please [Music] stop addicted to the shindig chop choppy says I'm gonna win big choose not to life you better better foreign [Music] [Music] you foreign

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Length: 84min 42sec (5082 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 18 2023