Minnesota Sports. (Gotta stck with the hometown teams) Vikings Football, Twins Baseball, Timberwolves basketball. Why are we constantly giving our best players to Boston???? (Garnett, Big Papi, Moss) Golf, Coronas, Landsharks!!! & the beach. Chilling at home by the pool. All my pets, animal causes and rescues. Getting paid to do what I love...
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People ask alot of questions about who are some of my favorite drummers. Here's a few in no certain order, for various reasons.Louie Belleson - First on double bass, absolute legend, I'll never forget meeting that guy. Super down to earth/
Buddy Rich - Best Ever, if you don't agree, go listen. All that with a 4pc. kit/Duh !!!/
John Bohnam (Led Zepplin) - Power, Groove, Rocks Top Gun. His kids great too/
Peter Criss (KISS) - His Big Band influences put a unique swing in their stuff,Cool Feel, cool cat/
Neil Peart (RUSH) - Busy, Busy. Everything HE does sounds twice as hard than it is/
Rod Morgenstien (Dixie Dregs,Winger) - Progressive Monster, Super nice guy/
Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) - Great Driver of CRUE Sound but face it Bro. Your a better Drummer than anything else /
Eric Singer (Various) -Has it all Great Feel, Best Show, Stunning studio Chops, Cool Vibe/
Vinnie Coliouta (Zappa,Sting)- Best all around today, bar none. Cool dude too!!/
Bun e Carlos (Cheap Trick) - dexterity, power,/
Charlie Watts (Stones) - tick-tock, perfect ying to Mick & Keiths Yang/
Jimmy Marinos (Romantics) - cool kits, great singer, VERY underated, where is he now?/
Alex Van Halen (VH) - swingin' style of VH/
Tommy Aldridge (Various) - His solo is a drummers hit/
Vick Foxx (Enuff Znuff) - cool, cool, Trendy cool/
Rikki Rockett (Poison) - his drum fashion rocks, and he's a cool dude/
Keith Moon (Who) - uncontrolled madman, made it ok for the drummer to stand out, too bad he's gone/
Scott Rockenfield (Queensryche)- perfect for them, subtle brilliance/
Lonnie Mattila (Old Friend-Various) thanks for the Stick Tricks and influence. Where are you now dude?
In my 20's I toured all over the Midwest and western states playing classic rock and what we now know as "Hair Metal". We would play 5-6 nites a week in any given town or state then move on to the next one. my first touring band was "Touched". We were one of the biggest draws in the midwest and were doing the hairspray/makeup thing in 86' before Poison was big. (Even in Minneapolis we had our L.A vibe going) "Secret Admirer"(87-88) and later "Alley Cat Salley" (88-93) T-Wire(88-93) In 1993 I took a hiatus from the band scene as grunge took over. I was booking bands for my agent Pat Muret from XFR Management. He had taken a job managing pachaderhm studios an hour south of Minneapolis and needed help on the band booking end. Ironic enough Nirvana was recording InUtero there and were staying at the band house. If Pat didn't answer the phone when I called, one of the Nirvana guys or Courtney Love did as they were the only ones there. I never took the opportunity to go hang there with them as I was too busy to do so. I'll always regret that, as Kurt was gone only a year later. In 1992 I started Robin DJ & Karaoke Entertainment"I have been doing that ever since and moved to Florida in 1996. I came out of a 10 year band retirement in 2003 to play drums with DIRRTY HAIRY, We play my favorite of all music, "80's metal". A great excuse for a midlife crisis. These guys are my brothers and best friends. We're a Rockin' Partyin' fun bunch and don't take ourselves seriously AT ALL.My Favorites of music:50's and 60's: The Trashmen (Duh....) Buddy Holly, Jan & Dean, Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Ventures, Jerry Lee Lewis, All surf/drag music and The Rolling Stones (the best period of music history to me) it was all first run....70's and 80's: KISS, Zeppelin, SRV, Ramones, Sex Pistols,(Mpls. Scene)Replacements, Husker DU, Prince, Rod Stewart, Iggy, Romantics, Skynyrd, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Nugent, Police, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Poison, AC/DC, Queensryche, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, LA Guns, GnR, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Hanoi Rocks, Enuff Znuff Alot of HAIR BAND PERIOD BANDS....90's-Present: Weezer, Robbie Williams, Janes Addiction, Chili Peppers, Velvet Revolver, Avenged Sevenfold, Rob Zombie, Vains of Jenna, Retro Surf Stuff, The Volcanos, Neanderthals, Los Straightjackets, Man or Astroman, Brian Setzer. Musicians wank music.Country: Johnny Cash, David Allen Coe, Merle Haggard, Tim McGraw,Odds & Ends: Big Band, Buddy Rich, Louie Belleson, Gene Krupa,
70's Classics: Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Kentucky Fried Movie, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstien, History of the world PTII, Airplane80's Classics: Fast Times, Animal House, Caddyshack, Stripes, Hollywood Knights, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Raising Arizona, Spinal Tap (of course)90's Classics: Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Austin Powers,
Wrestling / WWE, TNA, WEW . VH-1(Rock Of Love), VH-1 classic, Southpark, Beavis & Butthead, The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Triumph the insult comic dog, Animal planet (RIP Steve Irwin),ESPN(dadada,dadada) SOPRANOS (When's the movie coming?) Hell's Kitchen ..M/
WWW.HAIR-METAL.COM WWW.MYSPACE.com/DIRRTYHAIRY READ THAT!!! ;P Not alot of time for books, but I liked Hammer of the gods, The Dirt, Band Horror Novels. Wrestling biographies.
My parents. Dad for the musical influences (EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!)using your royalty check to get me out of the hospital when I was born. Thanks :)Also your integrity.....Mom for the sense of humor, compassion, for all things animal and the ability to not take Thyself too seriously. My friends, who patiently endure my habit of taking on too many tasks at once!!! Thank You...