Jeremy DeBardi

WHAT INSPIRES YOU?

Listening to the music of the 1960s will endlessly inspire me, but a step further it's the spirit of that music that put's me in a wide open space where anything goes, I don't have to write music that sounds like whoever is the cool new thing. Anything can inspire me these days, a sunset, a chord, a color, a smell. But one thing is certain, All of the legends I look up to have an end of their work, I've heard all the songs. But I take pride in trying to be the best songwriter and player I can be and continue adding my own songs to that list so to speak, a step forward in this history of Colorful, spicy, energetic music that lives up to my imagination.

WORDS OF WISDOM FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF DRUMMERS

Don't overthink it. Do your exercises or whatever but at the end of the day You're a caveman, Everyone has a different approach, but I dropped out of highschool to play drum solos with bloody fingertips everyday until the cops came. And then when they left I'd start playing again. I don't think I would have had the same life if I was thinking LR LLRL quietly somewhere. When I was 5 i was playing along to black sabbath's paranoid album, Nirvana, soundgarden, STP. In my teens playing along to Bonham, Moon, Baker and in my late teens getting into Gene Krupa, zappa, and learning Jazz, and Reggae, and so forth. My point is find your passion. Being overly technical right out of the gate is a mistake if it stifles your growth and your flow. A real drummer is a DRUMMER. not a "rock drummer" or a "jazz drummer" . Am I a rock drummer? Yea but I reach for being able to do any genre, my life is enriched by the wide array of genres I celebrate. Nothing is beneath you, Focus on feel. Everything else can wait

FAVORITE ZILDJIAN CYMBAL/COMBO

Touch choice but I used the A medium thin/thins for over 15 years and am now exploring the darker tones of the K family. So by the time I die I'd like to expand to having an era with all families