Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.
Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.
When you perform in front of an audience after only two days of rehearsal, you're flying by the seat of your pants - particularly when they're rewriting the show right up to the moment the camera goes on.
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.
Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.
If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.