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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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