"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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"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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"We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs."

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

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"In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it."

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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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"I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good."

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