Billy Martin

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this run, I'm using a classic just Ludwig maple kit, 2012.

16 also came with the 14, but we don't need it yet And then yeah, I just had you know hi-hat crash ride ride another like kind of crash ride and then a another like sims like stack symbol all the way to my right and that's kind of like my the basic like setup that I had and then you know we started like playing different, like, we started jamming more, you know, and I would just watch these jam bands and, you know, and I love like, you know, Billy Martin and he's got all these cool sounds.

So I'd be like, oh, let's go to, there's a place in Inglewood in California, Motherland Music, and they have like all these cool instruments, like, you know, like how weird cowbells and stuff like that so it's like why not let's add that you know and everyone's open to just doing whatever you want so i would just you know see how that would sound and then just kind of kept adding stuff to where it's at now sometimes there's like some gong symbols and sometimes that and like i don't i won't touch them because it's not we're not playing that song today so they're just there for you know you never know also keep things interesting

Stay set for the entire tour each night

Who are your biggest influences, be it drumming or music or art or whatever? Oh, man, yeah.

Drumming, we can start with drumming.

I mean, it's just, you know, from Steve Gadd, Billy Martin, you know, like Milford Graves.

Mark Juliana, Matt Chamberlain, you know, the list goes on and on.

Let's change this.

An avant-garde and fusion trio of keyboardist John Medesky, drummer Billy Martin, and bassist Chris Wood, best known as Medesky, Martin, and Wood, put together a children's album in 2008.

And a few tracks, such as the three I'm going to play, actually involve children.

And it's truly a great album that the child in me appreciates just as much as real children do, I'm sure.

core drum set that you're playing? So the core for this run, I'm using a classic, just Ludwig Maple kit, 2012.

16 also came with the 14 but we don't need it yet um and then uh yeah i just had you know hi-hat crash ride ride another like kind of crash ride and then a another like sim like stack symbol all the way to my right and that's kind of like my the basic like setup that i had and then you know we started like Playing different, like we started jamming more, you know, and I would just watch these jam bands and, you know, and I love like, you know, Billy Martin and he's got all these cool sounds.

So I'd be like, oh, let's go to, there's a place in Inglewood in California, Motherland Music, and they have like all these cool instruments, like, you know.

like how weird cowbells and stuff like that so it's like why not let's add that you know and everyone's open to just doing whatever you want so i would just you know see how that would sound and then just kind of kept adding stuff to where it's at now sometimes there's like some gong symbols and sometimes that and like i don't i won't touch them because it's not we're not playing that song today so they're just there for you know you never know also keep things interesting

Who are your biggest influences, be it drumming or music or art or whatever? Oh man, yeah.

Drumming, we can start with drumming.

I mean, it's just, you know, you get Steve Gadd, Billy Martin, you know, like Milford Graves.

Mark Juliana, Matt Chamberlain, you know, the list goes on and on.

So, yeah, tying those together has been a fascinating project for me.

Like, I'm obsessed with Billy Martin and Andy Shelf, and Logan likes some kind of more melodic stuff, so he's kind of like Sunluxx.

I'm

zero for three at the moment.

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You can follow us on Instagram at slowdown.media. Our theme music was composed by Billy Martin.

This episode was produced by Olivia Almer, Ramon Broza, Chelsea Dubrow, Mimi Hannon, Colin Lee, Johnny Simon, and Desta Wanderad.

They got in the studio and it was a couple of them in the studio and they pressed record and they did five takes and they chose take two and that was it.

And I took a recording course from this producer, Philip Weinrobe, who does a lot of stuff with, like, Billy Martin and...

Adrian Linker and a lot of other incredible songwriters.

And he talked about the importance of preserving the field of a recording by allowing it to be start to finish and having minimal cuts in each take of the song.