Drummer Dave Lombardo reveals off just some of the devices he performed on his debut solo album Rites of Percussion.
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Drummer Dave Lombardo reveals off just some of the devices he performed on his debut solo album Rites of Percussion.
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Because the founding drummer of Slayer, Dave Lombardo was identified for pace, precision and brute drive. His double-bass pedals felt like they have been hammering immediately on a listener’s eardrums.
After 4 many years enjoying in thrash metallic bands, Lombardo launched his first solo album — Rites of Percussion — and it reveals a really completely different aspect of one among metallic’s most punishing drummers.
“It is a journey by my rhythmic thoughts,” Lombardo instructed NPR’s A Martinez. “It is one thing I’ve all the time wished to do as a result of I have been influenced by so many different drummers and percussionists that weren’t metallic or thrash, you already know? I wished to specific how deep my affect goes with rhythm.”
Lombardo discovered inspiration in Grateful Lifeless drummer Mickey Hart’s work together with his Planet Drum venture, Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, and even Latin jazz bandleader Tito Puente, who died in 2000. Unusually, Lombardo says he unwittingly felt Puente’s affect throughout a key drum break within the traditional Slayer tune “Angel of Dying.”
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Dave Lombardo was born in Cuba in 1965, however his household introduced him to California as a toddler. Nonetheless, Cuban music was in every single place as he was rising up.
“My mother and pa used to go to those Cuban golf equipment. They’d have matinees for teenagers, after which at nighttime, there could be a Cuban dance band for the dad and mom,” Lombardo recalled. “I might all the time sit and and watch the drummers, and so they’re simply sweating, and other people dancing and having fun with themselves. The horn part is available in and, you already know, simply the ability! It was phenomenal. I am going to always remember these days.”
Lombardo says that affect is throughout Rites of Percussion. “This album is impressed by my roots — and for the love of music from Cuba and the Caribbean generally.”
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Olivia Hampton edited the audio and digital model of this story.
