WEBVTT 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:08.640 Welcome to episode number 44 of the Dan Time 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:13.080 podcast, a weekly run inside and occasionally 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:17.739 outside of the Daniverse, bringing you a new 00:00:17.739 --> 00:00:21.940 guest every Sunday. Sometimes it's a songwriter 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:25.739 or musician, sometimes an athlete, a business 00:00:25.739 --> 00:00:29.440 owner, a performer or other creative. This past 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:32.939 Thursday on the backend of my visit to Cincinnati, 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:37.079 Ohio. I was able to sit down with Danny Laverde, 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:40.479 drummer for the Jeff Tate band, as well as Mark 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:43.759 Daly and the Ravens. Jeff Tate, of course, the 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:47.600 multi -platinum Grammy nominated singer -songwriter 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.280 and former lead singer of one of the most influential 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:55.700 rock bands of all time, Queensryche. Having sold 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:59.399 north of 20 million records worldwide, Queensryche 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:02.880 are regarded as one of the big three of the progressive 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.200 metal genre, along with Dream Theater and Fate's 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:09.560 Warning. Danny has toured all across North America 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.579 and around the world with Jeff Tate, performing 00:01:12.579 --> 00:01:15.840 the following albums in their entireties, Rage 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:20.799 for Order, Empire, and Operation Mindcrime. Operation 00:01:20.799 --> 00:01:24.219 Mindcrime is widely considered one of Heavy Metal's 00:01:24.219 --> 00:01:28.569 all -time best concept records. The 1990 album 00:01:28.569 --> 00:01:32.230 Empire included the cross genre smash single 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:36.370 Silent Lucidity. Danny and I sat down at a corner 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:39.170 table at the Hampton Inn downtown Cincinnati. 00:01:39.650 --> 00:01:42.469 This is a rare break in touring for Danny and 00:01:42.469 --> 00:01:45.329 as you'll hear he's still trying to adjust to 00:01:45.329 --> 00:01:48.890 not being on that constant daily tour schedule. 00:01:49.129 --> 00:01:51.549 You can catch the video version of this interview 00:01:51.549 --> 00:01:54.750 uncut on the Dan Time YouTube channel at Dan 00:01:54.750 --> 00:01:58.569 Time Pod. Follow me on Instagram with the same 00:01:58.569 --> 00:02:02.250 handle. On Facebook, search Dan Time Podcast 00:02:02.250 --> 00:02:06.609 and email the show at dantimepod at gmail .com. 00:02:07.230 --> 00:02:09.969 Danny is a Colombian American drummer born in 00:02:09.969 --> 00:02:13.150 Los Angeles and raised in Cincinnati. He started 00:02:13.150 --> 00:02:16.090 playing drums when he was eight years old and 00:02:16.090 --> 00:02:18.689 has played in a number of local bands prior to 00:02:18.689 --> 00:02:21.349 performing with Jeff Tate. He is experienced 00:02:21.349 --> 00:02:26.030 in rock, prog metal, Jazz Fusion, and Afro Cuban. 00:02:26.870 --> 00:02:29.090 Danny has been featured as an up and coming drummer 00:02:29.090 --> 00:02:32.409 in Modern Drummer Magazine. On this episode, 00:02:32.889 --> 00:02:35.430 Danny shares the story of how he was asked to 00:02:35.430 --> 00:02:38.650 play with Jeff. We talk about life on the road, 00:02:39.169 --> 00:02:41.930 the energy of the crowds, his drumming style 00:02:41.930 --> 00:02:45.409 and setup, influences, and you get some real 00:02:45.409 --> 00:02:47.849 insight into how Danny goes about his business. 00:02:48.490 --> 00:02:51.229 He's a big presence when he walks into the room. 00:02:51.449 --> 00:02:53.710 You know right away you're talking to somebody 00:02:53.710 --> 00:02:56.930 who's been places and has overcome obstacles 00:02:56.930 --> 00:03:00.169 to get where he's going. Follow Danny Laverde 00:03:00.169 --> 00:03:05.050 on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook. Danny Laverde 00:03:05.050 --> 00:03:08.710 Drums. That's L -A -V -E -R -D -E. He's back 00:03:08.710 --> 00:03:11.729 out on the road this fall with Mark Daly supporting 00:03:11.729 --> 00:03:14.770 Richie Cotson. Good chance they'll be coming 00:03:14.770 --> 00:03:17.729 to a city near you. Want to give a big thanks 00:03:17.729 --> 00:03:20.590 to Boyd Cruz with Jeff Tate Touring Operations. 00:03:20.969 --> 00:03:24.250 for making this interview possible. OK, let's 00:03:24.250 --> 00:03:28.229 get to the conversation. It is Danny Laverdi 00:03:28.229 --> 00:03:33.030 time. Danny Laverdi, how are you doing, man? 00:03:33.129 --> 00:03:36.210 I'm doing good. How about yourself, Dan? Pretty 00:03:36.210 --> 00:03:38.169 good. I'm glad that we're we're finally sitting 00:03:38.169 --> 00:03:40.949 here together. First of all, I got to ask. So 00:03:40.949 --> 00:03:43.090 you're a professional drummer. Let's just say 00:03:43.090 --> 00:03:45.949 professional musician, touring musician. I want 00:03:45.949 --> 00:03:48.009 to clarify that because some people are musicians, 00:03:48.050 --> 00:03:50.819 but they don't. get out there and travel the 00:03:50.819 --> 00:03:54.280 world that maybe would like to. But is it true? 00:03:54.340 --> 00:03:57.240 Are you most at home when you're on the road 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:01.520 and in motion? Well, yeah, I mean, you're talking 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:03.139 about the difference between just professional 00:04:03.139 --> 00:04:05.300 and touring. The difference is that you don't 00:04:05.300 --> 00:04:08.000 have a family. How are we ever? It's just like, 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:10.240 you might as well not. Dude, I'm gone eight months 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:11.939 out of the year. Like, you're right. That is 00:04:11.939 --> 00:04:14.400 my home. My home is literally that coffin on 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:19.459 a bus. Yeah. So yeah. Now, but do you make that 00:04:19.459 --> 00:04:21.259 space your own, right? I mean, do you have little 00:04:21.259 --> 00:04:24.100 snacks that you tuck into cubby holes and everything 00:04:24.100 --> 00:04:25.899 that you like to have? It's funny, my bandmates 00:04:25.899 --> 00:04:29.639 actually call my bunk Dannyland. It's just, yeah, 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:32.360 I have a bunch of water bottles, you know, snacks, 00:04:32.459 --> 00:04:34.060 tissues, everything like that that I could possibly 00:04:34.060 --> 00:04:36.540 need just to make it like my little hibernation 00:04:36.540 --> 00:04:38.800 chamber and stuff. I'll watch movies in there, 00:04:38.819 --> 00:04:41.040 get away from people. It's like, some people 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:42.879 say it's claustrophobic, but I don't think it 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:47.480 is at all. I like the small space. What are your 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:49.740 gaps like between so you've been on the road 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:54.420 a lot? 2022 2023 We'll talk about prior to that, 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:57.459 but are you usually home for like a few weeks 00:04:57.459 --> 00:04:59.879 and then back out? Yeah, man, that just depends 00:04:59.879 --> 00:05:02.879 on our schedules One thing about being a touring 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.420 musician is that it's not necessarily stable 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:08.040 in the sense of your schedules It fluctuates 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.439 all the time and you know how often you play 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:12.759 and where you go as well this summer Actually 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:15.470 is the longest I've been home in years. I think 00:05:15.470 --> 00:05:16.990 in total, I'll be home for about three and a 00:05:16.990 --> 00:05:20.129 half, four months, something like that. So it's 00:05:20.129 --> 00:05:22.689 kind of exciting, but weird at the same time. 00:05:22.709 --> 00:05:24.649 I don't know how to explain it. So trying to 00:05:24.649 --> 00:05:27.170 wrap my head around that one. Yeah. When a tour 00:05:27.170 --> 00:05:29.649 ends and it's like the next Tuesday or the Wednesday 00:05:29.649 --> 00:05:32.189 and you're just sitting at home and you're like, 00:05:32.269 --> 00:05:33.750 I mean, do you think to yourself, what did I 00:05:33.750 --> 00:05:37.829 used to do before? Or what was I doing eight 00:05:37.829 --> 00:05:41.230 months ago? What would I usually? Yeah, it's 00:05:41.230 --> 00:05:44.370 just, you know, Yeah, I don't know. My buddy 00:05:44.370 --> 00:05:47.569 Dave Parks, who's another touring drummer, he 00:05:47.569 --> 00:05:50.589 plays for the Bellamy brothers and stuff. He 00:05:50.589 --> 00:05:52.430 described it best, you know, when you get home 00:05:52.430 --> 00:05:55.230 and you're in bed, it's really anxiety inducing 00:05:55.230 --> 00:05:57.930 because you wake up the next morning and you're 00:05:57.930 --> 00:06:01.290 like, oh my gosh, like where's, yeah, what time's 00:06:01.290 --> 00:06:07.050 loaded, am I late, do I need to get up? And so 00:06:07.050 --> 00:06:09.029 now you have a minor panic attack, but then it's 00:06:09.029 --> 00:06:10.750 all good after like a couple weeks You're like, 00:06:10.790 --> 00:06:13.930 okay wait now I can actually be like lazy and 00:06:13.930 --> 00:06:16.490 not like a contributing member of society just 00:06:16.490 --> 00:06:20.329 dirty Man, I always wonder about being on the 00:06:20.329 --> 00:06:22.470 road and you know, you had the show then you 00:06:22.470 --> 00:06:26.449 had the after show and some people go nuts and 00:06:26.449 --> 00:06:29.329 You know are trying to get three hours of sleep 00:06:29.329 --> 00:06:32.029 and party till 4 a .m Do you have to be pretty 00:06:32.029 --> 00:06:34.290 careful to say, all right, guys, I'll see it. 00:06:34.350 --> 00:06:38.930 I'm checking out of this. Well, it's it's I feel 00:06:38.930 --> 00:06:41.670 like it's kind of easy for us in our camp. I 00:06:41.670 --> 00:06:43.589 don't know how it is for everybody else. But 00:06:43.589 --> 00:06:45.790 personally, for me, like not a lot of us like 00:06:45.790 --> 00:06:48.149 party too much. Some of us will a little bit, 00:06:48.329 --> 00:06:50.670 but we're all a bunch of nerds. And so usually 00:06:50.670 --> 00:06:54.149 after a show, some of us will stay up for a little 00:06:54.149 --> 00:06:56.230 bit, but most of us would just kind of go to 00:06:56.230 --> 00:06:59.269 sleep and stuff. Yeah, it's just again, especially 00:06:59.269 --> 00:07:02.569 with us when we We'll usually play six shows 00:07:02.569 --> 00:07:04.810 in a row before we get a day off. And sometimes 00:07:04.810 --> 00:07:06.930 those days off are just travel days instead of 00:07:06.930 --> 00:07:08.810 just kind of sleeping in the hotel, you know? 00:07:09.029 --> 00:07:11.930 So it's like, we need the sleep and we need the 00:07:11.930 --> 00:07:14.310 rest and recovery. So Danny, I probably will 00:07:14.310 --> 00:07:15.990 bounce around in the conversation a little bit, 00:07:16.470 --> 00:07:18.810 but you've just gotten off the road with Jeff 00:07:18.810 --> 00:07:23.300 Tate performing, I mean songs that have... He 00:07:23.300 --> 00:07:26.259 sold something over 20 million records in his 00:07:26.259 --> 00:07:28.740 career. Is that correct? Sounds right to me. 00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:30.800 I mean a couple I mean a few of them have gone 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.500 platinum alone biggest ones being Empire and 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:36.339 OMC, you know So it's like that sounds about 00:07:36.339 --> 00:07:39.019 right 20 million something like that and you've 00:07:39.019 --> 00:07:41.680 played sets like the 35th anniversary of Operation 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:45.040 Mindcrime 30th, have you already done that one 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.899 of Empire? Yeah, Rage Forward or an Empire was 00:07:47.899 --> 00:07:50.420 my first tour. Actually, there was a dual record 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:53.339 headline show that we were doing. Yeah The guys 00:07:53.339 --> 00:07:56.040 that you're on stage with surrounding Jeff these 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:57.959 are guys that you're familiar with right you've 00:07:57.959 --> 00:08:02.000 been playing with Kieran Robertson James Brown 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.319 These are guys from around the world Kieran from 00:08:04.319 --> 00:08:09.060 Scotland James from Ireland Alex Hart Jack Ross 00:08:09.060 --> 00:08:16.879 on bass Bruno Keyboards from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, 00:08:17.379 --> 00:08:20.639 so it's really cool So Jeff typically has a rotating 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:23.560 line of musicians around some guys go for a little 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.100 bit and then come back Sometimes they leave off 00:08:26.100 --> 00:08:27.959 and go do their own things some stay for like 00:08:27.959 --> 00:08:29.980 years and years and years Karen actually being 00:08:29.980 --> 00:08:32.980 an example I mean he was with Jeff for six years. 00:08:33.019 --> 00:08:35.820 Actually now he's playing guitar for faster pussycat 00:08:35.820 --> 00:08:39.000 So so he's doing that right now the current lineup 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.250 that we got. It's me. It's Jack on bass, James 00:08:43.250 --> 00:08:47.669 Brown is from Ireland. And then we got a Frenchman 00:08:47.669 --> 00:08:50.009 from Mess, his name's Omri Altmeier. And then 00:08:50.009 --> 00:08:54.090 we got a guy from Rome named Dario Parente. So 00:08:54.090 --> 00:08:56.929 right now it's a, I think six piece band right 00:08:56.929 --> 00:08:59.070 now. It's really, really, really cool, yeah. 00:08:59.990 --> 00:09:04.129 And from your perspective on the drum riser and 00:09:04.129 --> 00:09:06.929 playing like the most recent set, these songs 00:09:06.929 --> 00:09:09.750 are really emotionally driven. You get a very 00:09:09.750 --> 00:09:11.269 interesting perspective where you can look out 00:09:11.269 --> 00:09:14.269 in the crowd and you're getting into like The 00:09:14.269 --> 00:09:16.929 title track empire or breaking the silence and 00:09:16.929 --> 00:09:18.970 you see the looks on people's faces. How cool 00:09:18.970 --> 00:09:22.669 is that? Well, so it's it's different every night 00:09:22.669 --> 00:09:24.669 and not obviously everybody loves it, right? 00:09:24.730 --> 00:09:26.610 I mean empire obviously one of the main tracks 00:09:26.610 --> 00:09:29.470 But I always felt it kind of depends on where 00:09:29.470 --> 00:09:31.789 you put it in the set, too Like this last tour 00:09:31.789 --> 00:09:34.309 that we did we opened up with empire actually. 00:09:34.330 --> 00:09:36.549 We actually changed the intro to where it's like 00:09:36.549 --> 00:09:39.809 a whole big like like track and instrumental 00:09:39.809 --> 00:09:42.870 like intro thing we all kind of come out lead 00:09:42.870 --> 00:09:45.470 guitars come out and play the main line to it 00:09:45.470 --> 00:09:47.769 and stuff and that's a whole different reaction 00:09:47.769 --> 00:09:50.570 and response to let's say if we were to play 00:09:50.570 --> 00:09:52.710 it like doing the whole empire record it's like 00:09:52.710 --> 00:09:54.970 in the middle of the set you know it's and you 00:09:54.970 --> 00:09:57.809 know demographic matters too it's whole different 00:09:57.809 --> 00:10:02.620 thing it's just but um yeah i mean 99 % of the 00:10:02.620 --> 00:10:07.240 time, everybody's like, yeah, but it's really 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.600 cool. Yeah, it's really, really nice. I was watching 00:10:10.600 --> 00:10:13.200 where Jeff was about to introduce one of the 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:15.860 biggest hits. And he said someone he said people, 00:10:16.139 --> 00:10:18.360 maybe one guy or he relayed a story where someone 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.399 said, Hey, man, this song helped save my life. 00:10:21.740 --> 00:10:26.179 This song is so special to me. Silence in Tennessee. 00:10:26.590 --> 00:10:29.809 in Tennessee that's yeah it happened I think 00:10:29.809 --> 00:10:32.690 a couple years ago if that you know what he says 00:10:32.690 --> 00:10:35.029 on stage is absolutely true it's like a guy literally 00:10:35.029 --> 00:10:36.809 came up to him said that he had all the records 00:10:36.809 --> 00:10:40.169 but only had like three or four so and you didn't 00:10:40.169 --> 00:10:42.629 know what he's been doing since 91 and so he 00:10:42.629 --> 00:10:44.649 loved the music he was a cool guy but he just 00:10:44.649 --> 00:10:46.870 didn't really know the material as much as he 00:10:46.870 --> 00:10:49.580 thought he did it was cool I felt like that was 00:10:49.580 --> 00:10:51.259 like something even maybe the guy could get a 00:10:51.259 --> 00:10:53.279 laugh out of like wow I've been calling it silence 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.360 in Tennessee for so long How many of us have 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:58.600 actually done that? I mean like seriously, I 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:01.039 I hardly remember people's names like it's it's 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.700 it's bad, bro It sucks. It sucks like because 00:11:04.700 --> 00:11:07.840 I meet people all the time and so it's it I don't 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:10.240 know. It's embarrassingly bad. Actually, I don't 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:11.899 I actually don't even know if I want to get into 00:11:11.899 --> 00:11:14.580 that but just know that Hey, at least you can 00:11:14.580 --> 00:11:17.590 remember my name pretty well like that yeah true 00:11:17.590 --> 00:11:21.169 yeah yeah okay speaking of that let's get into 00:11:21.169 --> 00:11:23.210 some Dan time stuff I don't know if this is boring 00:11:23.210 --> 00:11:25.210 for people or not I don't ask it all the time 00:11:25.210 --> 00:11:29.009 but so none of us were usually sometimes I mean 00:11:29.009 --> 00:11:30.610 I don't know I'd like to see birth certificates 00:11:30.610 --> 00:11:33.210 but I was not born Dan you weren't born Danny 00:11:33.210 --> 00:11:36.710 usually starts with Daniel Daniel was my given 00:11:36.710 --> 00:11:39.129 name Daniel Christopher Laverde the most white 00:11:39.129 --> 00:11:41.950 suburban like Christian name well I'm Daniel 00:11:41.950 --> 00:11:45.139 Carter What's your last name? It's a tongue twister. 00:11:45.139 --> 00:11:46.679 I don't know what they were thinking Daniel Carter 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.980 McArdle Daniel Carter McArdle. Yeah, okay that 00:11:49.980 --> 00:11:53.179 that beats me that beats me. Oh, yeah But Carter's 00:11:53.179 --> 00:11:56.139 a family name you think it's like my dad's from 00:11:56.139 --> 00:11:58.639 Colombia. So like La Verde I mean the green one 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:00.620 so like at least that's somewhat that's ethnic. 00:12:00.820 --> 00:12:03.600 So yeah, Daniel Christopher That's like it's 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:05.720 from the Bible and stuff. Yeah, so it's like 00:12:05.720 --> 00:12:09.460 whatever Did Danny come along when you're like 00:12:09.460 --> 00:12:11.720 in? fifth grade or eighth grade or something. 00:12:11.980 --> 00:12:13.620 I kind of went through a slew of phases. Went 00:12:13.620 --> 00:12:16.700 between Daniel, Dan and Danny. Yeah. I don't 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:19.740 know. It's Danny. Danny always just kind of stuck 00:12:19.740 --> 00:12:21.419 with me. I don't know. I just, Danny is strong 00:12:21.419 --> 00:12:24.399 with me. Yeah. I like it. Some, I have guests 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:27.379 that don't like Danny. I like it. I would not 00:12:27.379 --> 00:12:30.120 be offended if, if that was what I was going 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:34.159 by. And I picked Dan like when I was 15 because 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:36.700 I have an older brother, Robert, who started 00:12:36.700 --> 00:12:38.460 going by Rob. And so I was like, well, that's 00:12:38.460 --> 00:12:40.740 cool. I'm going to shorten mine to Dan. So that's 00:12:40.740 --> 00:12:42.519 actually how it started. But now I'm like, well, 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:44.580 maybe I missed out on something. But of course, 00:12:44.679 --> 00:12:46.700 you usually get a lot of nicknames if you are, 00:12:46.700 --> 00:12:48.919 you get Dan, the man, you get all that stuff. 00:12:49.059 --> 00:12:51.659 Daniel, the Elton John song. Yeah. Yeah. Well, 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:53.259 I mean, I've had other nicknames too, which I 00:12:53.259 --> 00:12:55.200 don't know if it'd be appropriate saying on this 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.480 podcast, but yeah, I've had other nicknames too 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:00.100 that had nothing to do with Dan. So, okay. So 00:13:00.100 --> 00:13:02.379 another cool thing. And I thought that this might've 00:13:02.379 --> 00:13:04.259 been. you would think it would be in reverse, 00:13:04.419 --> 00:13:07.799 but so your mom was like the metalhead, like 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:12.279 Metallica, G &R, and your dad was more, is this 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:15.360 correct, like more hip -hop, R &B, there's another 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.740 genre that... Well, because of his Colombian 00:13:18.740 --> 00:13:20.419 background, he was into like a bunch of Afro 00:13:20.419 --> 00:13:23.039 -Cuban stuff, like mainly I think Tito Puente 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:25.399 and everything like that, yeah. That's some really 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:27.740 cool exposure, you're getting like... Opposite 00:13:27.740 --> 00:13:29.740 ends of the spectrum as a young kid. Are they 00:13:29.740 --> 00:13:32.539 playing this stuff in the car? You have no idea 00:13:32.539 --> 00:13:35.500 especially looking back at at it now it I'm so 00:13:35.500 --> 00:13:37.600 fortunate to have that it is really really cool 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.039 They were playing a lot of that and in the background 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.559 My dad actually was mainly playing it was some 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.659 african stuff But it was also mainly like outcasts 00:13:46.659 --> 00:13:48.779 and ludicrous and my mom would actually get pissed 00:13:48.779 --> 00:13:50.340 off with my dad because of you know What the 00:13:50.340 --> 00:13:54.320 layers were talking about? It's like drugs. It's 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:55.639 like, yeah, yeah, stuff like that. I was like, 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:58.000 I'm from the hood. Yeah, the culture, what they 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.000 talk about in some of those lyrics. And so, but 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.620 I liked it. It stuck with me. I don't know if 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:07.679 that had, you know, that shaped me into who I 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:10.360 am, but hopefully it did, because it's helped 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:12.200 me a lot with my playing, I feel like, as well, 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.860 and what I'm into. Speaking of your playing, 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.379 Dan, so I've said this before on the show, that 00:14:18.379 --> 00:14:20.519 I play drums, but I want to be clear. I don't 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.960 play. I'm not actively playing. I would like 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.419 to be playing a lot more. But when I watch you 00:14:26.419 --> 00:14:28.779 play, I really appreciate your style. You're 00:14:28.779 --> 00:14:31.860 not trying to just destroy that kit. You have 00:14:31.860 --> 00:14:35.220 a real finesse. And I like to play more with 00:14:35.220 --> 00:14:38.259 my wrists. And so I like that you have a real 00:14:38.259 --> 00:14:40.879 controlled approach. You're trying to serve the 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:44.059 song. And you're not clamoring for the spotlight. 00:14:45.019 --> 00:14:47.220 So talk about that a little bit. You're playing 00:14:47.220 --> 00:14:49.669 style. Well, I mean, well, like I said, I had 00:14:49.669 --> 00:14:51.769 a bunch of musical influences, you know, growing 00:14:51.769 --> 00:14:54.110 up and stuff, and especially when I was getting 00:14:54.110 --> 00:14:56.110 into high school and out of it as well was when 00:14:56.110 --> 00:14:58.090 I started transitioning over to like the jazz 00:14:58.090 --> 00:15:01.210 fusion or hip hop and prog metal stuff. But yeah, 00:15:01.269 --> 00:15:05.490 the wrist thing and that kind of stuff that really 00:15:05.490 --> 00:15:09.940 came mainly from two places. One. was when I 00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:11.700 transitioned over to the electric kit when we 00:15:11.700 --> 00:15:15.740 play in the camp because the rims are rubber 00:15:15.740 --> 00:15:19.039 and you know they're hard and stuff but they 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:21.279 don't absorb that much shock they're not super 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.360 flexible a lot of that shock kind of goes back 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.379 into your wrist so if you don't have good technique 00:15:26.379 --> 00:15:28.600 your hands are gonna suffer you're gonna physically 00:15:28.600 --> 00:15:31.940 suffer overall so It's unforgiving when it comes 00:15:31.940 --> 00:15:34.259 to that. So I had to really dial that in. And 00:15:34.259 --> 00:15:36.039 two, it's just from watching drummers that I 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:38.600 really, really liked. Yeah, dude, I remember 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:42.179 there was this band that I was, that I'm still 00:15:42.179 --> 00:15:44.860 really into. They're called the Mars Volta. And 00:15:44.860 --> 00:15:48.399 I remember I was 14 years old and it was the 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:51.279 Yahoo Live, yahoo .com live sessions. And they 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.320 were playing this song called Teche Grammaton. 00:15:53.539 --> 00:15:56.649 And the drummer. There was a guy named Thomas 00:15:56.649 --> 00:15:58.929 Pridgen if you guys don't know who Thomas Pridgen 00:15:58.929 --> 00:16:00.909 you guys got to look him up Do your homework 00:16:00.909 --> 00:16:04.929 because he to me is one of the goats Thomas was 00:16:04.929 --> 00:16:08.710 Was for whatever reason his hands looked like 00:16:08.710 --> 00:16:10.769 spaghetti he looked like the spaghetti monster 00:16:10.769 --> 00:16:12.649 right and everything like that But everything 00:16:12.649 --> 00:16:14.470 to your point is like it was super controlled 00:16:14.470 --> 00:16:17.610 and he was hitting hard and it was accurate and 00:16:17.610 --> 00:16:19.970 he was improvising throughout all these hits 00:16:19.970 --> 00:16:22.409 and everything like that, but he was just It 00:16:22.409 --> 00:16:24.970 was not like nothing I had ever seen before and 00:16:24.970 --> 00:16:28.110 I was like I want to play like that So that's 00:16:28.110 --> 00:16:31.269 why I try to be Like as loose and controlled 00:16:31.269 --> 00:16:33.049 as I possibly can like that. I don't know if 00:16:33.049 --> 00:16:35.929 I'm there, but I try to be And you're playing 00:16:35.929 --> 00:16:38.590 with two mounted toms a four tom is a five piece 00:16:38.590 --> 00:16:42.509 kit with two crash ride symbol hi -hat standard 00:16:42.509 --> 00:16:45.230 five piece Yep, and I think we'll probably add 00:16:45.230 --> 00:16:47.029 on to the kit later as the tours go on and stuff 00:16:47.029 --> 00:16:48.789 We plan on it. But yeah right now it's a standard 00:16:48.789 --> 00:16:52.169 five piece. I love it. I mean I've sat down at 00:16:52.169 --> 00:16:54.429 bigger kits you know you got a splash cymbal 00:16:54.429 --> 00:16:56.850 you got a china cymbal do you need all that i 00:16:56.850 --> 00:16:58.730 mean some of the song like what you're playing 00:16:58.730 --> 00:17:01.769 doesn't call for yeah no yeah i mean like you 00:17:01.769 --> 00:17:03.409 said it depends on the song and what it calls 00:17:03.409 --> 00:17:05.609 for like i said i mean we we'll want to add more 00:17:05.609 --> 00:17:08.349 to the kit anyways one because you know we don't 00:17:08.349 --> 00:17:10.369 have we don't have a china on our kit yet all 00:17:10.369 --> 00:17:13.289 the time at least and some you know we want to 00:17:13.289 --> 00:17:17.259 just add more tones, add more colors to the songs 00:17:17.259 --> 00:17:19.460 and everything. But yeah, we don't always need 00:17:19.460 --> 00:17:21.900 it. You know, the song doesn't always call for 00:17:21.900 --> 00:17:25.240 it. And you know, it just depends on the situation. 00:17:26.220 --> 00:17:27.960 And what type of kit are you playing or what 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:30.700 brand? Yeah, it's a Roland TD -50X is the brain 00:17:30.700 --> 00:17:34.259 module and the drums themselves are the VAD -706 00:17:34.259 --> 00:17:37.220 Roland's flagship stuff. And what sticks do you 00:17:37.220 --> 00:17:39.730 like? Sticks right now. I'm playing with the 00:17:39.730 --> 00:17:43.109 Vader West sites just under a 5b and with 16 00:17:43.109 --> 00:17:45.230 inches I think and like this just teardrop tip. 00:17:45.230 --> 00:17:48.890 It's just super ergonomical for me and you have 00:17:48.890 --> 00:17:51.950 different heads on this snare and Tom's Tom's 00:17:51.950 --> 00:17:53.950 Well, it depends on the kit the kit that we have 00:17:53.950 --> 00:17:56.190 the well the kit that I use for Jeff it's all 00:17:56.190 --> 00:18:00.829 the the stock Remo and Roland heads that we have 00:18:00.829 --> 00:18:03.700 on there. Yeah. Yeah However, the front head 00:18:03.700 --> 00:18:05.839 actually, I'm really happy about the front tick 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:07.980 drum head, the rezo head, because I was able 00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:09.920 to get that designed off the backdrop that we 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:11.960 used and stuff like that. I'm really happy about 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:13.279 that. I'm proud about that because it came out 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:17.319 good. So yeah, I'll take credit for that one. 00:18:19.019 --> 00:18:21.420 Going back to some influences, so this is right 00:18:21.420 --> 00:18:24.400 out of QueensRite Scott, Rock and Field. How 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:25.740 old were you when you first started listening 00:18:25.740 --> 00:18:28.259 to Operation Mindcrime? Well, man, I'll tell 00:18:28.259 --> 00:18:31.809 you this, because my QueensRite journey and Jeff 00:18:31.809 --> 00:18:33.349 Tate journey didn't start until actually much 00:18:33.349 --> 00:18:35.450 later. You know what I mean? Like I was 15 when 00:18:35.450 --> 00:18:37.450 I had heard Queen of the Reich and my mom introduced 00:18:37.450 --> 00:18:39.690 me to them. I was showing her another band. I 00:18:39.690 --> 00:18:41.650 was like, yeah, man, this guy sings opera metal 00:18:41.650 --> 00:18:44.609 vocals and stuff. She's like, hold my beer. And 00:18:44.609 --> 00:18:46.690 I mean that not literally because we were driving. 00:18:46.829 --> 00:18:51.970 That's illegal. So, but man, I, and I only really 00:18:51.970 --> 00:18:53.869 started listening to a lot of their catalog when 00:18:53.869 --> 00:18:56.049 I actually joined the Tate camp when I was 20. 00:18:56.670 --> 00:18:59.809 And so I, That's when I first really started 00:18:59.809 --> 00:19:02.789 hearing it because I had to learn it. So yeah. 00:19:03.230 --> 00:19:05.190 Now, talking about opportunity. So you're playing 00:19:05.190 --> 00:19:07.369 with Mark Daly. You're still playing with Mark. 00:19:07.750 --> 00:19:10.250 How does Jeff approach you? Like, how does this 00:19:10.250 --> 00:19:12.470 connection? Well, I mean, it actually had nothing 00:19:12.470 --> 00:19:15.150 to do with Mark. I was playing with Mark because 00:19:15.150 --> 00:19:17.309 he saw me play with Jeff and because they're 00:19:17.309 --> 00:19:19.410 so close friends and they were touring together. 00:19:19.589 --> 00:19:22.329 Mark had asked me to play with his group and 00:19:22.329 --> 00:19:24.509 hang with them. But I was already playing with 00:19:24.509 --> 00:19:27.569 Jeff. Yeah, no, I didn't start playing with Jeff 00:19:27.569 --> 00:19:30.690 until, like I said, I was 20 years old. And, 00:19:30.710 --> 00:19:32.269 you know, in Cincinnati, we have a good music 00:19:32.269 --> 00:19:34.450 scene and everything like that. And so a lot 00:19:34.450 --> 00:19:36.430 of people know each other. And so actually, Jeff's 00:19:36.430 --> 00:19:39.109 guitarist at the time, a guy named Scott Motten 00:19:39.109 --> 00:19:41.730 came over here, moved out to Cincinnati. We have 00:19:41.730 --> 00:19:44.210 a bunch of mutual friends out here. And so I 00:19:44.210 --> 00:19:47.660 was out at a jam session with him. I had a local 00:19:47.660 --> 00:19:50.119 bar that was open at the time and we just started 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:52.240 playing together. And one thing led to another. 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:54.299 He saw me play with another touring group I was 00:19:54.299 --> 00:19:56.500 with at the time, actually opening up for Queens, 00:19:56.500 --> 00:19:57.960 right? The Queens, right? Camp, which was really 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:01.259 funny. I did some session work with him and then 00:20:01.259 --> 00:20:03.220 he eventually moved back to Northern California. 00:20:03.579 --> 00:20:05.339 You know, it was one of those things where he's 00:20:05.339 --> 00:20:07.079 like, and I'll put your name in the hat, you 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:09.940 know, learn mind crime or whatever. And I learned 00:20:09.940 --> 00:20:11.339 half of it. Like I didn't know if he was going 00:20:11.339 --> 00:20:12.859 to call me or whatever or anything like that. 00:20:12.900 --> 00:20:14.740 I was like, ah, thanks, bro. I appreciate it. 00:20:15.340 --> 00:20:18.539 Now 2020 comes up and is like, hey, yo bro, you 00:20:18.539 --> 00:20:20.819 got a passport? Look, we needed a drummer last 00:20:20.819 --> 00:20:22.480 minute. Health issues came up with our other 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.779 ones. Do you know these two records? Not mind 00:20:26.779 --> 00:20:29.119 crime. Like I told you, you know these two records. 00:20:29.420 --> 00:20:32.839 Like, no? Have you heard of them at all? No? 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:35.400 It's like maybe one or two songs off of each. 00:20:35.940 --> 00:20:37.660 It's like, can you learn it? You got like a week. 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.519 I'm like. Yeah, I'll do it. And so seven hours 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.640 later, I got that call. I flew out to Seattle, 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:47.799 and I had a week to learn two records of material. 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:49.619 The eighth day we flew out to Sweden for our 00:20:49.619 --> 00:20:51.240 first show, and I've been with them ever since. 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.500 Oh, man. Wow. These songs, like, so when you've 00:20:55.500 --> 00:20:58.720 got to prepare like that, how many hours, how 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:01.319 much of the day are you just hammering out just 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:04.859 one song? You ever been to, you ever look up 00:21:04.859 --> 00:21:07.460 any, like, Navy SEAL -like documentaries of, 00:21:07.460 --> 00:21:12.029 like, Hell Week? Well, so you're on the clock 00:21:12.029 --> 00:21:15.230 Well, yes, I mean I would schedule out my day 00:21:15.230 --> 00:21:16.950 and just kind of break it up, you know I'd get 00:21:16.950 --> 00:21:19.490 up and I and I'd be rehearsing with the guys 00:21:19.490 --> 00:21:22.329 and stuff and then I would take the the evening 00:21:22.329 --> 00:21:25.450 and night to learn maybe three songs and stuff 00:21:25.450 --> 00:21:28.750 like that and On top of that actually we had 00:21:28.750 --> 00:21:31.630 to do some live rehearsals in front of fans because 00:21:31.630 --> 00:21:34.250 during that time in the Pacific Northwest region 00:21:34.690 --> 00:21:36.690 Jeff was doing something called backstage pass 00:21:36.690 --> 00:21:39.509 travel, right? It's where he fans pay to go on 00:21:39.509 --> 00:21:41.589 vacation essentially with Jeff and he shows him 00:21:41.589 --> 00:21:43.369 around the whatever areas around the world he's 00:21:43.369 --> 00:21:46.990 going to so this is one of those things and So 00:21:46.990 --> 00:21:48.589 that's what we had to do some live rehearsals. 00:21:48.589 --> 00:21:51.309 So it's kind of like trial by fire in that sense 00:21:51.309 --> 00:21:53.269 So that's how it's separate my days. It's just 00:21:53.269 --> 00:21:57.069 throughout the night Learn grind eat sleep when 00:21:57.069 --> 00:22:00.529 I can get up Hang out with the guys for a little 00:22:00.529 --> 00:22:03.170 bit rehearse with them literally in Jeff's basement 00:22:04.050 --> 00:22:07.089 And then do the live rehearsals at a bar down 00:22:07.089 --> 00:22:09.430 the street with some fans, and then start the 00:22:09.430 --> 00:22:13.549 process all over again. Yeah. Gosh, Danny. I 00:22:13.549 --> 00:22:15.089 mean, there's some people that would just crumble. 00:22:15.289 --> 00:22:17.269 I mean, they would be like, oh my gosh. Oh my 00:22:17.269 --> 00:22:20.970 gosh. Like, I don't know. Do you like, so you 00:22:20.970 --> 00:22:23.049 got to believe in yourself to be in this position, 00:22:23.210 --> 00:22:25.250 right? Are there ever periods of self -doubt? 00:22:25.889 --> 00:22:28.349 Well in that situation for an example, I mean 00:22:28.349 --> 00:22:30.250 I've always kind I've always wanted to do this 00:22:30.250 --> 00:22:33.549 It was never really a plan B for me So I always 00:22:33.549 --> 00:22:35.869 figured in I would make time to learn these songs 00:22:35.869 --> 00:22:39.029 one way or another I was able to you know, I 00:22:39.029 --> 00:22:41.869 was it's a kind of do or die I mean, I wasn't 00:22:41.869 --> 00:22:43.269 gonna get sent home I didn't want to be sent 00:22:43.269 --> 00:22:46.670 home. And so I mean by the time that week was 00:22:46.670 --> 00:22:49.930 done. I Was able to get through the entire show 00:22:49.930 --> 00:22:53.049 and be fine with it accurately. No for no I'd 00:22:53.049 --> 00:22:56.640 say 80 -85 % of the way there. So when I would 00:22:56.640 --> 00:22:58.980 get to the hotels and you know any free time 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:01.160 that I could that I didn't really need the rest 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:03.559 like where I was recovered I would spend time 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.099 learning the songs off of suitcases pillows and 00:23:07.099 --> 00:23:08.680 stuff like that making my own makeshift drum 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:11.460 kits so I would spend time perfecting it as much 00:23:11.460 --> 00:23:14.579 as I could then. So I would always make time 00:23:14.579 --> 00:23:16.839 for something and just I didn't want to be sent 00:23:16.839 --> 00:23:18.420 home I was like this is what I want to do so 00:23:18.420 --> 00:23:21.700 I'll make it work. Did would like Jeff himself 00:23:21.700 --> 00:23:23.740 ever come up to you after those first one or 00:23:23.740 --> 00:23:25.460 two or three shows and say hey, man You really 00:23:25.460 --> 00:23:27.660 really killed it on that. Well when I it was 00:23:27.660 --> 00:23:30.819 funny because I first met him and At that like 00:23:30.819 --> 00:23:33.420 literally the first day and you know love Jeff 00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:36.299 to death Like I could I could go on and say so 00:23:36.299 --> 00:23:39.059 many great things about him You know super introverted 00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:42.119 guy it keeps to himself right and so I meet him. 00:23:42.119 --> 00:23:44.410 I'm like Hey, Jeff, my name's Danny. He's like, 00:23:44.470 --> 00:23:45.650 oh, hey, Danny, nice to meet you. He just walks 00:23:45.650 --> 00:23:48.170 past me. And he's just, you know, he keeps to 00:23:48.170 --> 00:23:49.650 himself. He'll talk to fans, but he just kind 00:23:49.650 --> 00:23:51.289 of keeps to himself. I'm like, I don't know if 00:23:51.289 --> 00:23:53.430 this guy likes me or not. I'm not that good at 00:23:53.430 --> 00:23:55.569 reading people yet, and so I'm kind of scared. 00:23:56.109 --> 00:23:57.750 Man, I don't know. It's like he doesn't know 00:23:57.750 --> 00:24:00.509 me, though. So yeah, I mean, the first live rehearsal 00:24:00.509 --> 00:24:03.170 comes up, and we play Surgical Strike off of 00:24:03.170 --> 00:24:05.190 the Rage for Order record. And he's like, oh, 00:24:05.190 --> 00:24:07.809 not bad, Danny. I'm like, oh, my God, thank you. 00:24:08.390 --> 00:24:12.029 Yes! I'm like, OK, that's cool. And they've kept 00:24:12.029 --> 00:24:14.130 me this long, so I don't think they dislike me. 00:24:14.430 --> 00:24:16.509 So that's good. Yeah, you must be doing something 00:24:16.509 --> 00:24:19.869 right. Do you have like a particular favorite 00:24:19.869 --> 00:24:21.990 song, like when it's coming up in the set, do 00:24:21.990 --> 00:24:26.049 you like when you're about to play NM -156 or 00:24:26.049 --> 00:24:28.049 even like Another Rainy Night? Do you have a 00:24:28.049 --> 00:24:31.690 favorite? I really like The Mission off of Mindcrime. 00:24:31.809 --> 00:24:34.799 That one... That one really really sticks out 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:37.400 to me. It's like you were saying the songs are 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:39.920 very emotionally captivating and to me I think 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:42.460 that's the most dramatic song out of any thing 00:24:42.460 --> 00:24:44.660 He plays it just it makes you feel powerful when 00:24:44.660 --> 00:24:48.819 you play it. I think so. Yeah Danny real quickly. 00:24:48.859 --> 00:24:51.099 So let's talk a little bit about Mark Daly some 00:24:51.099 --> 00:24:55.380 new music coming out the devil's arms LP in August 00:24:55.380 --> 00:24:58.089 August 9th And some singles that are already 00:24:58.089 --> 00:25:00.769 out there folks if you're on spotify apple music 00:25:00.769 --> 00:25:04.289 Check it out. There's um, I think pieces Got 00:25:04.289 --> 00:25:06.869 to run. I want to these are videos. I'm sorry 00:25:06.869 --> 00:25:10.190 videos for pieces got to run and um, I want to 00:25:10.190 --> 00:25:12.450 be more I think is I I want to be more I think 00:25:12.450 --> 00:25:14.430 is the last one I think that's uh, I think that's 00:25:14.430 --> 00:25:16.069 the first one that released and then it was pieces 00:25:16.069 --> 00:25:18.190 and stuff like that But yeah off the new off 00:25:18.190 --> 00:25:20.950 the new lpa. It's it's been mainly those two 00:25:20.950 --> 00:25:24.619 and uh, yeah, man, I mean Yeah, that record that 00:25:24.619 --> 00:25:27.539 LP is going to be released soon and and honestly 00:25:27.539 --> 00:25:30.420 Yeah, I mean this tour that we're doing that's 00:25:30.420 --> 00:25:33.460 upcoming I'm really excited about too. You know, 00:25:33.500 --> 00:25:35.359 we're probably gonna be playing new music on 00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:37.359 that tour as well We're going back into the studio 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:40.799 in July Recording a new a new record for that 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:42.619 and I'm super excited about that So yeah, it's 00:25:42.619 --> 00:25:45.000 gonna be a good time and you've played we've 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:47.759 opened for mr. Big You've played some shows with 00:25:47.759 --> 00:25:50.849 Vixen. Is that right? Yeah, we've done jam sessions 00:25:50.849 --> 00:25:53.930 with them and stuff. Mainly it's just, okay, 00:25:54.029 --> 00:25:56.849 so I'll explain it like this. Like I said, Cincinnati 00:25:56.849 --> 00:25:58.710 has a good music scene and everything like that, 00:25:58.829 --> 00:26:01.509 very close -knit and stuff. So usually when I'm 00:26:01.509 --> 00:26:05.329 home, we have this bar off of Montgomery called 00:26:05.329 --> 00:26:07.720 the Bell and the Bear. No, it's not. most of 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:09.660 you think, you know, ah, bar, whatever. It's 00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:12.079 like, nah. This is like the Viper Room or the 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:14.500 whiskey of like, it's like a hidden gem in Cincinnati, 00:26:14.660 --> 00:26:16.819 right? So we'll always have, so we've actually 00:26:16.819 --> 00:26:18.599 had a couple of national acts come out to this, 00:26:18.819 --> 00:26:20.680 to this place, smaller place, very intimate, 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:23.039 fits two or 300 people in there. But yeah, we'll 00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:25.200 have Vixen come out. We've had Alita Ford come 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:27.500 out. We've had Kip Winger come out and everything 00:26:27.500 --> 00:26:30.099 like that. I love that Winger album that was 00:26:30.099 --> 00:26:32.960 released. I think maybe it was 2022 or 23, seven. 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:36.519 So like Mark hasn't Mark hasn't jammed with Vixen, 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:39.799 but we've had people like Vixen and Brit lightning 00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:44.160 and Julia Lodge come out and I hope I pronounced 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:46.839 your last name right Julie. I'm sorry if I haven't 00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:50.259 but um, yes That's that's what that was about 00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:52.779 But you've been all over the world most recently. 00:26:52.779 --> 00:26:55.059 I guess you came back from a show in Stockholm 00:26:55.059 --> 00:26:57.460 Is that what wrapped up the the most recent tour? 00:26:57.779 --> 00:27:00.650 Yes. Yes, I believe so. Yes and then looking 00:27:00.650 --> 00:27:03.029 ahead to the fall you've got dates with both 00:27:03.029 --> 00:27:06.069 Jeff like you're in Alaska right yeah so Alaska 00:27:06.069 --> 00:27:10.609 I'll be doing late July and then and that's the 00:27:10.609 --> 00:27:12.670 September dates with Jeff actually I think they've 00:27:12.670 --> 00:27:14.390 got to fill in for me on that one because I'm 00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:16.329 doing the mark dates since we're direct supporting 00:27:16.329 --> 00:27:20.839 for Richie and then I said Richard Kotzen, right? 00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:22.240 I said Richard Kotzen. I just want to make sure 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:24.980 I said that. And so I think, yeah, they'll be 00:27:24.980 --> 00:27:27.740 having a fill -in for me during those days with 00:27:27.740 --> 00:27:29.539 Jeff, and then I'll be going back out with him 00:27:29.539 --> 00:27:32.859 after that tour's done. Yeah. Man. Exciting stuff, 00:27:33.059 --> 00:27:35.779 Danny. How about, all right, so here's just some 00:27:35.779 --> 00:27:38.400 general questions, I guess. Well, I already had 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:40.500 playing songs with deep emotional meaning to 00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:43.690 people. Do you see people with that? Can you 00:27:43.690 --> 00:27:46.190 see tears running down cheeks? Like, can you 00:27:46.190 --> 00:27:48.230 see that from the drum riser on any of those 00:27:48.230 --> 00:27:51.390 emotional songs, whether it's with Mark or...? 00:27:51.390 --> 00:27:54.630 If I'm not too far back and the lighting is good 00:27:54.630 --> 00:27:56.569 in front of me, I can see people's reactions. 00:27:58.109 --> 00:28:00.849 Yeah, yeah, and all seriousness. Yeah, I mean, 00:28:01.130 --> 00:28:03.509 different songs hit people in different ways 00:28:03.509 --> 00:28:05.710 and stuff. So, yeah, you'll have songs like Silent 00:28:05.710 --> 00:28:07.630 Lucidity. I know it's a big one that touches 00:28:07.630 --> 00:28:12.119 people. And so, yeah, I mean, I've seen... I've 00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:14.720 seen people react differently to it. Yeah, some 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.640 cry, some sing along. A couple people don't even 00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:20.680 know what it is, which I don't know how. This 00:28:20.680 --> 00:28:23.680 is weird. But yeah, 99 % of the time, it's like 00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:27.400 crying, cheering, stuff like that. What's a genre 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:30.559 or an artist that you really like that people 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.099 wouldn't expect, maybe? Anybody that you're listening 00:28:33.099 --> 00:28:35.380 to when you're on the road, do you have the AirPods 00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:37.339 in when you're traveling? Do you listen to... 00:28:37.339 --> 00:28:40.160 I'm trying to think. Mean I like I like jazz 00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:42.859 fusion and stuff. So like I like Kirby Hancock 00:28:42.859 --> 00:28:45.319 Chick Corea is a there's a piano player that 00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:48.700 I really like now called Robert Glasper and So 00:28:48.700 --> 00:28:52.440 I listened to some art Blakey as well So like 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:55.539 yeah a lot of jazz EDM as well as an artist I 00:28:55.539 --> 00:28:57.099 like called machine drum. Yeah, it's a bunch 00:28:57.099 --> 00:28:58.960 of different artists that I like I don't know 00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:01.380 I I don't know what I don't know really how to 00:29:01.380 --> 00:29:04.500 answer that one so much I like yeah Well, it's 00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:06.779 my first time in Cincinnati. I've been here for 00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:09.619 a few days here. Got to leave tomorrow Love it. 00:29:09.619 --> 00:29:12.660 I mean just the little bit that I've seen but 00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:16.059 I can't wait to come back and You grew up here. 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:18.079 Yeah, I did. I've been here for most of my life. 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:20.900 Originally I was born in Southern, California 00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:22.500 on Long Beach, but I've been here since I was 00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:25.660 six First grade to 12th grade. I've been to school 00:29:25.660 --> 00:29:29.119 here. I've I've lived here I'm basically I might 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:31.579 as well have been born here Danny. I've had a 00:29:31.579 --> 00:29:33.220 lot of fun talking to you today I feel like I 00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:35.279 need to pop out a couple little wacky questions. 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.259 I don't know. Do you alright so people that like 00:29:38.259 --> 00:29:41.079 me that we get up we go to work and we do that 00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:43.940 that whole rigor rigmarole and we're in our kitchen 00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:46.480 in the morning we're making our cereal and we're 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.579 making some eggs like what do you eat in the 00:29:48.579 --> 00:29:50.920 morning when you're on the road and like do you 00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:52.880 wake up and you want to have a biscuit but you 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.220 guys don't i mean all you have is like something 00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:57.680 in a box like a pop tart no i mean we'll have 00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:02.599 catered no that would actually be the worst thing 00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:05.339 ever um well i mean it is true that you don't 00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:08.910 always get a choice in Like food intake and stuff, 00:30:08.910 --> 00:30:10.690 but no typically we'll have like catering and 00:30:10.690 --> 00:30:13.109 stuff. We'll have sandwich meats Pastries and 00:30:13.109 --> 00:30:15.049 stuff like that fruits vegetables. So it's not 00:30:15.049 --> 00:30:16.950 the worst thing in the world Sometimes you'll 00:30:16.950 --> 00:30:18.630 have to do like McDonald's and stuff if like, 00:30:18.930 --> 00:30:20.910 you know, if you're having to drive so much Sometimes 00:30:20.910 --> 00:30:23.789 you'll have to do fast food, but for the most 00:30:23.789 --> 00:30:26.390 part it's not the it's not the worst thing. So 00:30:26.390 --> 00:30:30.390 yeah breakfast And Danny going back to the first 00:30:30.390 --> 00:30:32.829 part of the episode. This is my second in -person 00:30:32.829 --> 00:30:35.750 interview in a row last week's guest six foot 00:30:35.750 --> 00:30:38.640 eight I'm 6 '5". You're really tall. Are you 00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:41.259 6 '5"? I'm 6 '3". That's like a ladder. That's 00:30:41.259 --> 00:30:43.900 like 6 '8". What kind of Dan is 6 '8"? I feel 00:30:43.900 --> 00:30:47.599 jealous. I feel like I did not like... I wasn't 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:50.579 blessed gene -wise. Yeah, thanks, Dad. So... 00:30:50.579 --> 00:30:53.680 I look at it like, for me, I'm tall enough, okay? 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.579 Because like, it's enough of a thing where people... 00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:58.460 I really don't mind. Like, you probably get asked 00:30:58.460 --> 00:31:00.279 a lot, like, how tall are you? Or you're used 00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:02.119 to being the tall guy in the pictures. Like, 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:04.319 it doesn't bother me anymore, but like, I don't... 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.059 I don't need another few inches. No, I'm fine. 00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:09.740 It's just whatever. I'm happy with my height 00:31:09.740 --> 00:31:12.319 too, yeah. All right, Danny, this has been awesome. 00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:15.279 Can't wait to follow your music and your upcoming 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.700 tours. Tell people where they can... We started 00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:20.420 to talk about what's next, the Alaska show, but 00:31:20.420 --> 00:31:23.619 who are you going out on the road with when this 00:31:23.619 --> 00:31:27.470 fall? This fall? Okay, so... Yes, starting September 00:31:27.470 --> 00:31:30.109 13th I'll be playing with Mark Daly and the Ravens 00:31:30.109 --> 00:31:32.430 and we are direct supporting for Richie Cottson 00:31:32.430 --> 00:31:34.650 up until early November all throughout the United 00:31:34.650 --> 00:31:38.049 States. And people want to follow you on social 00:31:38.049 --> 00:31:40.890 media or anything you want to promote? Yes, at 00:31:40.890 --> 00:31:44.049 Danny Laverde drums on Instagram, Facebook and 00:31:44.049 --> 00:31:46.190 YouTube and you can also find all the tour dates 00:31:46.190 --> 00:31:50.049 there or on Mark Daly Music's Instagram and all 00:31:50.049 --> 00:31:53.309 of his social media platforms and any of... Jeff 00:31:53.309 --> 00:31:56.869 Tate's upcoming tours on his website at JeffTate 00:31:56.869 --> 00:32:00.589 .com or on any of his social media as well. I 00:32:00.589 --> 00:32:02.069 gotta ask you one other question and this is 00:32:02.069 --> 00:32:03.569 something I don't know that I would ask anybody 00:32:03.569 --> 00:32:07.789 else. What are your thoughts on, so I like Speaking 00:32:07.789 --> 00:32:11.509 of Winger and some of these bands that released 00:32:11.509 --> 00:32:14.450 albums in the mid 90s. It didn't sell a lot. 00:32:14.690 --> 00:32:16.779 They weren't really promoted. Do you like any 00:32:16.779 --> 00:32:21.059 of those 94 1995 releases from like a warrant 00:32:21.059 --> 00:32:25.200 or like I like ultrafobic I like um native tongue 00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:28.079 by poison And they're really good records. They 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:31.839 just kind of slipped off. They didn't get well 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:35.279 Well that period for me, I do like that period 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.539 but actually throughout that period I was not 00:32:37.539 --> 00:32:39.480 listening to that kind of music the music I was 00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:41.740 listening to was, you know, besides hip hop, 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:43.559 it was also a lot of new metal. I was one of 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.000 those kids. So I was like, you know, like corn, 00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:48.779 you know, slipknot, coal chamber and stuff like 00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:51.740 that. Like, like dirty stuff. Yeah, you know, 00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.039 so yeah, just angry stuff. Yeah, I hear you. 00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:56.980 I mean, there's still some of those bands that 00:32:56.980 --> 00:33:00.559 are, they've aged well. I would say Deftones 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:03.599 is one that kind of followed over the years. 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.640 Slipknot, they have their own horror circus for 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:09.220 a festival that they travel around with all the 00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:12.299 time. It's super successful. It's insane. They're 00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:14.500 like one of those bands now. I think Metallica 00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:17.539 has one, I think. As Osfest, I don't think it's 00:33:17.539 --> 00:33:22.220 still going on. I went to like the 1999 Osfest, 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:25.079 2000... around that period. It was pretty fun 00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:28.160 back then. Metallica's got that Orion Festival. 00:33:28.440 --> 00:33:29.799 Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it is. Yeah, that's 00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:31.400 what it is. Yeah, I think that's still going 00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:33.539 on. I don't know if it is. Well, I hope I get 00:33:33.539 --> 00:33:35.460 a chance to see you perform live. Don't know 00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:37.299 when it'll be. I always talk to musicians and 00:33:37.299 --> 00:33:40.859 say, hey, Pensacola Vinyl Music Hall, if it makes 00:33:40.859 --> 00:33:44.640 sense with the people that make those decisions, 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:46.940 would love to see it. And if I get to go travel, 00:33:47.140 --> 00:33:48.279 too, because I know you play in the Southeast 00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:50.599 to make some runs in the Southeast. But man, 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:52.420 I've so enjoyed talking to you today, Danny. 00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:56.099 And, um, thanks for being here on Dan time. You 00:33:56.099 --> 00:33:58.400 guys have a great rest of the week and we'll 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:05.680 see you next week. All right. 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