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Please introduce yourself and the name of your band? |
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Eddie Black – Pulse8. |
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Where are you from and who were your earliest musical influences? Do you remember going to your first concert? |
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I grew up in Florida and moved to KY when I was about 14; my parents were both musicians and were my first influences. I went to see KISS when I was 13, then I discovered Quiet Riot and was hooked. |
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What about non-musical influences? Who or what else has been influential to you personally? |
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Anyone who has enough determination to achieve their dreams, they usually do. |
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Are you self taught or did you take lessons? |
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I taught myself by watching my parent’s drummers and asking them questions when I needed to. |
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How did you originally connect with your band? |
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They were having drummer issues and I was having band issues, we jammed out a couple of times in a basement and that was it. |
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What stands out to you about your first recording sessions? |
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How much my band and I were on the same page as far as mixes and the way we thought things should be. |
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What is your band currently up to? |
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Writing new songs for a CD that we hope to record this summer. |
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Do you get involved with the song writing process? |
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We all do. Our song writing is a 5 person process, everyone has an equal say. |
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Do you have a favorite brand of drums? |
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Not really, I like Pearl's hardware but I think a lot of drums sound comes from tuning and the setup of the kit. |
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Who has given the best live drumming performance you’ve seen? Recently I saw Tommy Aldridge and that just blew me away. |
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Matt McDonough from Mudvayne and Tommy Clufetos from Rob Zombie. |
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What do you do to warm up? |
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Stretch. |
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Tell us about your current kit set up. |
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Pearl
Session customs 24x24 kick, 15” rack tom, 16” & 18” floor toms. |
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Any endorsements? |
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A drummer at my band's level can usually get just as good of a deal buying things from the same person all of the time as they could being endorsed by one or two of the things that they use. All of the endorsements I have been offered have not been very good deals. So no. |
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What is your take on file sharing? |
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If people don’t want to buy the whole CD they could at least pay .99 cents for the song they want. |
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Have you ever done, or would you consider, a drum duet? |
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I have never done a drum duet and really have never thought about it. I guess it would be cool. |
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Any advice for new drummers? |
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Practice, practice, practice. |
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Everyone has their own perception of success, what is yours? |
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Achieving your dreams and goals. |
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When do you know you’ve had a satisfying day? |
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A satisfying day is making it to the next one. |
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What are you looking forward to most this year? |
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Recording a new CD, playing some great shows and hopefully Pulse8 and Rat Pack records taking off and getting noticed. We have all been working our asses off for this. |
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And lastly, should there be drum rooms in the gym? Research has suggested that a rock drummer needs extraordinary stamina comparable to top athletes. |
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Playing drums is definitely a workout but I don’t think that it is as intense as actually working out. I do both and working out kicks my ass way more than playing a 45 min set no matter how hard I play. |
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To check out more about
PULSE8, visit |
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I would like to thank Eddie Black for this interview. Keep It Loud! |
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