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Rick Allen

"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."

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"Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums."

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"Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show."
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