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S2 E35 - Antonio Sánchez
Drum Channel Podcast - December 09, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHi everyone, welcome to Drum Channel! This episode features Billy’s guest, drummer, and composer Antonio Sanchez. Antonio, known for his years of work with guitarist Pat Metheny is also a composer, most notably for the score of the 2014 film Birdman. (featuring Michael Keaton) The score earne...
S2 E34 - 12 Drummers Drumming
Drum Channel Podcast - December 02, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHi everyone! For this weeks Drum Channel podcast, Billy Amendola speaks with a few of his friends Denny Seiwell, Josh Roosin, Matt Starr, Todd Sucherman, Wally Ingram, and Alvin Taylor, as well as Raven Drum Foundation founders Rick Allen and Lauren Monroe to talk about “12 Drummers Drumming,” a...
S2 E33 - Sandy Gennaro
Drum Channel Podcast - November 25, 2022 14:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHi everyone, Billy A here; welcome to the Drum Channel Podcast. As drummers, time is a powerful word; In playing and especially in life. Our guest today, the drummer/author Sandy Gennaro understands the importance of timing in life and has written an inspiring book combining his music career...
S2 E32 - Rikki Rockett
Drum Channel Podcast - November 18, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to this week’s Drum Channel Podcast. Billy A here with my guest Rikki Rockett, co-founder, drummer, and bonafide rock star of the past three decades with the band Poison. One of the few groups from the 80s era with all original members, Rikki and Poison, sold over 50 million records. T...
S2 E31 - Don Lombardi
Drum Channel Podcast - November 11, 2022 14:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHi everyone, welcome back to Drum Channel West. Billy Amendola and DC founder Don Lombardi chat at Thomas Lang’s Westlake Studio to talk about what’s going on at DC as well as reminiscing about teacher/guru Freddie Gruber, hand technic (matched, traditional), the late John Blackwell, the Buddy...
S2 E30 - Liberty DeVitto
Drum Channel Podcast - November 04, 2022 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to this week’s Drum Channel Podcast featuring Billy Amendola and Liberty DeVitto. Today Liberty joins Billy in the studio for episode 2 of their “Did You Know?” Series on “Billy’s Bubble” to honor the east coast session legend, Gary Chester. DeVitto, who’s played on over 150,000 se...
S2 E29 - Justin Kreutzmann
Drum Channel Podcast - October 28, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello everyone! Welcome to the Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola. Today’s episode features filmmaker Justin Kreutzmann (the son of The Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann - who, along with Mickey Hart, is half of the Dead’s driving rhythm section). Justin, who grew up on the road, direc...
S2 E28 - Cherisse Osei
Drum Channel Podcast - October 21, 2022 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHi everyone! Billy Amendola here on Drum Channel with my guest (from the UK) Cherisse Osei, best known for her work with the band Simple Minds. The 80’s band, who had a massive hit with “Don’t You, Forget About Me,” sold over sixty-million records, (long before Cherisse was born-she joined in...
S2 E27 - Herman Matthews
Drum Channel Podcast - October 14, 2022 13:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to Drum Channel. I’m Billy Amendola, and my guest today is “The Hermanator” Herman Matthews. Moving from Houston, Texas to Los Angeles, CA., has put this “groove master” in the drum seat for Kenny Loggins, Richard Marx, Tom Jones, Timothy B. Schmit, Tower of Power, and more. As a b...
S2 E26 - Jacquelene Acevedo
Drum Channel Podcast - October 07, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello everyone, Billy A here in the Drum Channel East studio with percussionist Jacquelene Acevedo. If that name sounds familiar and you’re unfamiliar with Jacquelene, her father is famed percussionist/drummer Memo Acevedo. Jacquelene spent the last year on Broadway playing with Talking Heads ...
S2 E25 - Jim McCarty
Drum Channel Podcast - September 30, 2022 13:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello from Drum Channel! Billy Amendola is with his guest today Jim McCarty, co-founder and original member of the 60’s English band the Yardbirds. Not many can claim to have drummed for three early bandmates who went on to become the greatest guitarists in the world, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page...
S2 E24 - JJ Kramer & John Martin
Drum Channel Podcast - September 23, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHi everyone! Welcome back to “Billy’s Bubble” here on Drum Channel. My bubble show is a bit different from my regular weekly podcasts, but the lesson and message is always the same; learning words of wisdom with knowledgeable, successful guests. This episode is a business theme with my guests...
S2 E23 - Andrew Marshall
Drum Channel Podcast - September 16, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to the Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola. This week Billy talks with Billie Eilish/Finneas drummer Andrew Marshall. Andrew, currently on tour in New Zealand, talks about the stage show, gear, playing and programming drums, and more. Marshall, born in New York, started playi...
S2 E22 - Kobi Reese
Drum Channel Podcast - September 10, 2022 15:40 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello everyone, this week’s Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola is about starting from the beginning. Our topics are geared as a lesson to the young generation. Still, it also reminds our older and established era of that exciting feeling as a kid just starting and dreaming of being a “ro...
S2 E21 - Matt Starr
Drum Channel Podcast - September 02, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to this week’s Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola and his guest Matt Starr. Matt, having his own solo career, has been a first-call-road and recording warrior for years, performing with Ace Frehley, Joe Lynn Turner and Mr. Big among others. Starr shares his experiences touring...
S2 E20 - Denny Seiwell
Drum Channel Podcast - August 26, 2022 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to the Drum Channel west coast broadcast with Billy Amendola and Don Lombardi. This episode features long-time friend and former Paul McCartney and Wings drummer Denny Seiwell. Denny talks to Billy & Don about his New York audition with Paul & Linda and his recording of McCartney’s cl...
S2 E19 - Gethin Davies
Drum Channel Podcast - August 19, 2022 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello, it’s me, Billy Amendola. Welcome to this week’s Drum Channel Podcast. My guest today is Gethin Davies of the UK band The Struts. The Struts are one of the newer breeds of bands, keeping the rock flag flying high since 2012. Today, Friday, August 19th, ten years later, the bands lates...
S2 E18 - “Billy’s Bubble” Podcast
Drum Channel Podcast - August 12, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to this week’s Drum Channel Podcast featuring Billy Amendola and Liberty DeVitto. This week Liberty joins Billy in the studio to talk about Muscle Shoals session legend Roger Hawkins. DeVitto, who’s played on over 150,000 selling albums with Billy Joel, listens and talks about all ...
S2 E17 - Joe Vitale
Drum Channel Podcast - August 05, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to Drum Channel with Billy Amendola. This week I’m speaking with not only an award-winning singer/songwriter, author, keyboardist, and A-game touring and recording drummer, he is one of my favorite people on the planet, Joe Vitale. Vitale has been close pals with his boss of 55 years,...
S2 E16 - Gordy Knudtson
Drum Channel Podcast - July 29, 2022 13:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to this week's Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola. This podcast features Gordy Knudtson, most known as the touring drummer with the Steve Miller band for the past thirty years. Gordy, recently retired from touring to spend more time at home and taking care of his company GK-Musi...
S2 E15 - Alvin Taylor
Drum Channel Podcast - July 22, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week’s Drum Chanel Podcast with host Billy Amendola features session and touring drummer Alvin Taylor. Taylor started his professional career at the young age of fourteen, touring with Little Richard, where he played drums for Richard, and featured Jimi Hendrix on guitar and keyboardist ...
S2 E14 - Education Round Table
Drum Channel Podcast - July 15, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHi and welcome to an exclusive Drum Channel podcast featuring three top-notch educators and working drummers, Frank Bellucci, Joe Bergamini, and Jim Mola. Join me, Billy A, as three friends share their experiences and words of wisdom about being on both sides of the fence in this “drum world”...
S2 E13 - Allan Schwartzberg
Drum Channel Podcast - July 08, 2022 13:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to the Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola. This week’s guest is one of NYC’s first-call-session-drummers of the 70s-80s and beyond, Allan Schwartzberg. Schwartzberg, who started playing Jazz at a young age, went on to record drums on AM/FM radio hits; “Tie A Yellow Ribbon” (Tony...
S2 E12 - Nick Gross
Drum Channel Podcast - July 01, 2022 13:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to this weeks Drum Channel Podcast with host Billy Amendola and his guest Nick Gross. Nick is a co-founder, along with his partner Travis Mills as part of the duo’s band Girlfriends. They are currently touring to promote their latest album, “(e)motion sickness,” as well as the bands p...
S2 E11 - Up & Coming Country Drummers
Drum Channel Podcast - June 24, 2022 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThe Drum Channel Podcast is where you will hear conversations with the world's greatest drummers and percussionists. Hear their stories and be inspired to take your drumming to the next level.
S2 E10 - Brooke Colucci
Drum Channel Podcast - June 17, 2022 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello DC friends! This week's podcast with Billy A features one of the youngest, most talented up comers, the “Rock Angel” Brooke Colucci. Brooke C is nineteen years old with years of life experiences since posting her first video at twelve years old. A year later, her cover of a Tool’s “Forty...
S2 E9 - Fred Eltringham
Drum Channel Podcast - June 10, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHello Drum Channel family! Welcome to this week’s podcast with Billy Amendola & Sheryl Crow/session musician Fred Eltringham. In this episode, Fred goes through his early years of paying his dues and moving between his birthplace, Philadelphia, to attending Berklee College in Boston, to giggi...
S2 E8 - Eric Hernandez
Drum Channel Podcast - June 03, 2022 13:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsHusband, Father, Brother, Friend, Hooligan, and Smooth as Silk, Eric Hernandez is my special guest this week on Drum Channel. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and moving to Hawaii, Eric started playing drums at four years old. Learning life lessons and working with his dad Peter’s band since he wa...
S2 E7 - Tony Brock
Drum Channel Podcast - May 27, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsWelcome to Drum Channels podcast — in this episode, we’re honored to introduce you to our guest, Tony Brock of the 70s supergroup The Baby’s. After huge success and going their separate ways, in the 80s Tony recorded and toured with Rod Stewart for close to fourteen years. Before the world shut ...
S2 E6 - Ed Greene
Drum Channel Podcast - May 20, 2022 13:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThis week’s Drum Channel podcast with Billy Amendola features Ed Greene. Those of you who may have vaguely heard his name, or don’t know much about his career, are in for a treat. Greene, up there with all the top studio drummers of the 70s, is a session legend. He’s one of the most polite and...
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