Brett Whitacre - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm currently the touring drummer for the Legendary Shack Shakers, so you wont be able to find me around chicago too easily any more. When im not on tour im doing various art projects which consist of: painting suitcases, detailing tv sets, or decorating old window panes. When im not doing that im being active in activities like: waterskiing, biking, golfing, pitchin horseshoes, attending demolition derbys, going to baseball games, hangin with the fam, and just takin'er easy. Im traveling a whole lot this year and am enjoying it very much. Come on out and see me and the band if you can. I love to have visitors on the road. Check out the tour dates at cockadoodledont.com. Oh yeah, while living in Chicago, i played in the followin great bands...The Saps, Warm Ones, 36 Invisibles, Galactic Inmate, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, Old No.8, Outlaw Family Band, and Gary Stier and the Sleepless Nights. Oh yeah and, i paint on stuff. Check out Heartsandhelicopters.com to see my work.
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My Interests

Being productive, playing drums, thrift shopping, looking for and finding junk, doing art projects, soft tee-shirts, collecting bad music videos, boat rides, eating expensive cheese and drinking cheap vodka, water skiing, eating sunflower seeds, walking, biking, liver sausage, girls with crazy hair, painting, and feeling a cool breeze.

I'd like to meet:

Clint Eastwood, Larry David, Carlos Zambrano, my grandmothers

Music:

i get into a lot of rock(Shins, Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, the Stones, pre-disco Bee Gees, old metal(tis what influenced me to play drums), sweet melodys of all sorts(if ya cant sing like a bird, i cant like ya), oh yeah...good drummers(Alex VanHalen, Bonham, Dave Grohl) Intelligent, well written pop music is my favorite and i dont really like dischordant stuff. As far as metal goes, trim the fat and go fast. Speed metal musicians are some of the most talented in the universe.

Movies:

Every which way but loose, Smokey and the bandit, Slingblade,Caddy Shack, The Graduate, Fletch, Dead Man, Comedy videos, Dirty Harry, the endless summer, the jerk, 10, Arthur, Good bad and the ugly, Coen brothers movies, little big man, anything marx brothers, anything leslie neilson, american beauty, american psycho, the shining.

Television:

curb your enthusiasm, Dog:the bounty hunter, Ali G, David Chappelles show, Seinfeld, Americas funniest videos, Freaks and Geeks,Police Squad, Ren and Stimpy, Sportscenter, Jimmy Kimmell will rule the world!

Books:

Ones with big letters and pictures. For real!

Heroes:

Pete Rose(for his head-first slides), Clint Eastwood (for his delivery), and James Brown(for ham-bone funk)

My Blog

Legendary Shack Shakers action figures!

So, tour is goin great. Been out for a month now and have maybe 3 more weeks to go. Upon return to the midwest next week, we do an about-face and head right back out west to hook up with Rancid for fi...
Posted by Whitacre on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:54:00 PST