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"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."

Play

"My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band."

Mom

"I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me."

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"But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song."

Time

"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics."

Music

"I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk."

Nothing

"And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach."

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"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music."

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"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."

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"On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy."

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