To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.
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Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.
In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.