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High,
I'm Lou Dog your host and welcome to Lourider via MYSPACE.
I play drums exclusively for the Kottonmouth Kings. I've been playing
and building drum sets for a long time, and I've been building and
designing bikes even longer: lowriders,
beach cruisers, BMX and now "drum-trikes." In 1997, as the legend
goes, the concept of building a hybrid of a drum kit with a lowrider
trike came to me naturally one hazy day when I was cruising on the
beach tapping along to Bob Marley rhythms in my head. I stopped to
exhale and in the puff of smoke I saw for the first time the concept
of attaching drums and percussion to the handlebars of my 1964 Schwinn
trike. This
vision became the protoype and eventually the original drum-trike.
It made it's video debut on the "Suburban Life" video which was being
broadcast daily on MTV during it's promotion of the "Scream 2" soundtrack.
So now I'm touring with KMK and ridin' high around the country with
my drum-trike. Drummers and fans like Tommy Lee, Travis Barker and
Gwen Stefani are coming to shows to check it out and requesting their
very own custom drum-trike.
In 2001, I teamed up with Orange County Drums & Percussion to build
and design the second kit called "Chronic Green Machine." O.C.D.P
took me to the highest levels of quality in drum building. Adolf Jimenez
from the STYLE car club in Pomona, CA hooked me up with H & R Classics
for paint and bodywork. He also introduced me to the world famous
airbrush and tattoo artist "Fonzy." His talented artwork can be seen
on all future creations. The airbrush allows me to tell a story and
really personalize and customize each creation and achieve "concept
art pieces" as well as fully functioning drum kits.
In
January 2004, I began to work on "Heaven is a Third Wheel." With this
project, I wanted to spend more time on the bodywork of this 1970
Schwinn Stingray and "tattoo" every inch of of space on both the frame
of the bike and shells of all the drums. I designed and layed out
all of the artwork, and Fonzy took my pencil sketches to the next
level. The paint job is truly custom. The effect was achieved by multiple
layers of gold and green paint tones and sprinkled lightly with a
gold micro-flake. The photos don't do it justice, so come to a show
and see it up close in person. This time with the drums, I was personally
hands on at the O.C.D.P. factory and helped design, drill, sand, and
assemble the drum kit.
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