Chad Smith
Chad Smith
Chadwick "Chad" Gaylord Smith is an American musician and current drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which he joined in 1988 and was inducted of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Smith is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot, who formed in 2008, and currently the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, who formed in 2007. As one of the most highly sought-after drummers, Smith has recorded with Deep Purple vocalist Glenn Hughes,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth25 October 1961
CitySaint Paul, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.
Last week was much more indicative of how we play. We're hoping the wind won't be a factor next week at districts, and if everything goes right, we could have a shot at qualifying for state.
Our kids played exceptionally well today. They are doing a much better job of managing the course.
It creates a sense of pride -- that we're not only people of the past, we're people of the present and we're going to be a people of the future.
I think it has been great for us. The exposure we get has been great.
People will leave here with not a sense of loss. They'll leave here with a sense of hope.
There are exactly four sopranos on the planet who have sung that music. I know Tom's music well, so I knew who these sopranos were.
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.
Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.
Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.
Family time is really important to me.
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.
I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.