When I moved to Los Angeles to pursue music, I knew I was choosing a tough path. I knew it was going to be hard to leave everything I had known and move to a new city. I had no support system and had to audition against a lot of other people trying to get gigs playing music. I heard a statistic shortly after moving to town that was pretty amazing and likely to even be true:
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I went back to Dallas on vacation a few weeks ago and managed to pick up a gig while I was at it!! I was contacted by Ricky Stewart to be a part of his Coldheart Band and play a show @ the Curtain Club in Deep Ellum. I remember going to shows often in this rough neighborhood of downtown Dallas and it was definitely an amazing experience to go play for my friends and family.
I also snagged some video thanks to my old roommate John Rasbury! So if you weren’t around here’s the last song of the set!!
Thanks again to Ricky for getting me the opportunity to play in Dallas.
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So, yesterday I had a video shoot with an artist I work with named Mike Steimel. We were on location all day just south of downtown LA in this massive warehouse. This teaser was from the performance shoot where we were in this room with a lot of busted windows.
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As a drummer the most important thing to keep in mind is time.
Time, time, time, time, time!!
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This was a really fun show at Club Hell, in Hollywood. We set up a lot of this really evil looking lighting and blew out a fuse! Note to future band looking to book in Hollywood, those buildings are sometimes a little old and the fuse can blow pretty easily. Bring surge protectors so you don’t fry your gear!!
Playing in front of 7,000 is a really rad feeling. This gig was the kind of moment where you’re really worried that it isn’t coming to come off right, but when we hit the stage it’s a little too late to think much about that. We were slotted just before the fireworks show at the Coliseum in downtown LA on the 4th of July.
Good times!!
Over the course of playing with several groups I’ve learned one of the roles that I should have tackled earlier as a drummer, leading. This can be difficult at times because whenever you’re auditioning there is some uncertainty as to what’s what and the whole situation is really fresh and new. Many times I would sit back and pay attention to the guiding instruments, be it lead guitar, vocals, or keyboards. I would allow them to guide me through songs because they knew the songs better than I did right? It’s their music after all. <Click on this story’s header for more.>
When I moved to Los Angeles I was really ready to hit the music scene really hard and get my career in gear. I had been auditioning for several local bands all over the greater Los Angeles area but I noticed that many times I would hear from the bands I was auditioning for that I wasn’t hitting the drums loud enough, or it looked like I wasn’t that into the music. <Click on this story’s header for more.>
Patient 113 performing Outgoing Introvert @ Cinespace, Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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