Member Since: 2/14/2008
Influences:
I would say that my early influences were from Deep Purple, April Wine, Santana, Kanzas, Jethro Tull, Genisis, Yes, Heart, Steve Miller, Chicago , Journey, Supertramp, Pat Benatar. For 20 years I would work with cover bands and we learned the music that gave us gigs. So we learned a lot of top 40 songs and played every weekends untill we dropped.
Then for a few years I could'nt work and I listened to a lot of different styles and got hooked on progressive and fusion jazz. Bands like Rush, Steve Vai, Dream Theater, Vital Information, Chic Corea, Dave Wheckl, Jo Satriani, Michel Camilo, "And of course Frank Zappa".
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Douce Lumiere performed by Line Rioux. Note: pre recorded music sound track and the drums are played by Marcellin Rioux.
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Marcellin and Marcellin Junior in a school during a clinic.
Drum kit:
Ludwig 1974 Octoplus wood shell covered with sheet metal.
The tom sizes are 6"/8"/10"/11"/13"/14"/16"/18" and 20"floor.
Base drums are 22".
Pearl snare drum 14" X 7" 1/2 steel frame.
Zildjian Avedis 14" hi-hat, 10" thin splash,16" thin crash, 17" thin crash, 18" inch thin crash, 22" China, 24"ride. Vader 22" china.
AXIS A2 Double Pedal (AX-A2)
Drums Skins are all of the brand Evans.
The snare drum is a white model Genera
The snare resonance bottom head is a model Glass 500
The toms are all the model EQ2
The base drums are the model EQ3 and the front batters are black retro screens.
I use Pro-Mark Oak 747W wood tips Neil Peart Signature drumsticks and TX747N nylon tips.
Sounds Like:
Below is a list of drum clinics I’ve been fortunate to attend.
These clinics were in a class of 5 to 15 students so they were very intense and personal ;
Steve Smith (Journey & Vital Information)
Horacio Hernandez ( Santana & Michel Camilo)
Aldo Mazza (Kosa & Repercussion)
Dom Famularo (Clinician Drummer)
Marco Lienhard (Japanese Taiko)
Glen Velez (Frame drum master)
Mario DeCiutiis (electronic & mallet percussion)
Lou Robinson (didgeridoo master)
Gordon Gottlieb (classical, , New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
Rick Van Horn ( Modern Drummer Magazine)
Jim Chapin (zz Great & Legend)
Dave Weckl (Soloist clinician and studio sessions)
Paul Picard ( percussionist, Celine Dion)
The next clinics were in audiences attendence of 500 people:
Terry Bozzio ( Drum Master Frank Zappa)
Virgil Donati ( Steve Vai & PlanetX)
Mike Mangini ( Steve Vai & Extreme)
"Official W.F.D. World’s Fastest Drummer"
Marco Mineman (Necrophagist)
"Extreme Interdependence" drum instructional book
Chad Wackerman (Frank Zappa, Allan Holdsworth)
Joe Morelo ( Jazz Great & Legend)
Karl Perazzo (Santana, Percussionist great)
Chad Smith ( Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Bill Bruford ( Earthworks, Yes, King crimson, Genesis)
Rick Graton (Teacher and writer of Rick’s Licks drum book)
Mike Portnoy (dream Theater)
Hip Pickles (drum Band)
Luis Conte (conga Great)
Jerry Mercer (April Wine)
Will Calhoun (living Colour)
Peter Erskine (Diana Krall)
Giovani Hidalgo (conga great)
Raul Rekow ( Santana, conga great)
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