Watch Rick Nielsen and Graham Bonnet on That Metal Show
Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen was the main guest on the October 17 episode of That Metal Show. Jump to the 10:30 mark to hear him discuss touring with KISS and AC/DC, Cheap Trick’s classic album At Budokan, the band’s quirky sense of humor, and Bun E.’s status. Anthrax’s Scott Ian and Charlie Benante also pay a surprise visit during the “Stump the Trunk” segment.
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Charlie Benante, ©2010 Josh Sisk
Me too, Charlie. Me too.
Anthrax skin beater Charlie Benante runs down his list of favorite drummers for an upcoming issue of Revolver magazine. To my surprise, the third person he lists is King’s X’s Jerry Gaskill:
He always kind of just makes my head spin a bit. He’ll throw in these kind of syncopated fills that just always get me, you know, it’s like “Ah, God that’s great,” you know. There’s a song on Gretchen Goes to Nebraska where he just lays this pattern down, it’s called “Burning Down,” he just does this pattern for the rest of the song and just the way he does it, he doesn’t push it, he doesn’t pull it—it’s just beautiful. It’s like a drum machine, but it’s not, because it’s human and it’s very Jerry Gaskill.
Who else made the grade? Neil Peart, Alex Van Halen, Lars Ulrich, Dave Lombardo, and Ringo Starr.
