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S2 E13 - Allan Schwartzberg Jul 08, 2022

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Welcome 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 Orlando & Dawn), “Cats in the Cradle” (Harry Chapin), “Working My Way Back to You,” (The Spinners), “Funky President,” (James Brown) Never Can Say Goodbye,” (Gloria Gaynor), “Star Wars Theme,” (Meco), and Rod Stewart’s “Great American Songbook,” (volumes 2,3,4), to name a few.
In between his very busy session schedule, Allan was king of the jingles here in New York, as well as touring periodically with Stan Getz, Mountain, (filling in for Corky Laing), Peter Gabriel, (who first solo album after his departure from Genesis, featured Schwartz on drums), The Brecker Brothers and more. Enjoy!

S2 E12 - Nick Gross Jul 01, 2022

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Welcome 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 previous self-titled debut album. (Which accumulated over thirty million streams)

Not only a leading band member, besides drums and production, Nick co-writes and plays just about every instrument on the record.

Starting at a very young age and inspired by Travis Barker (who appears on a song from the duo’s debut), Gross has done it all in the music business from both sides of the glass.

Nick runs his own studio-complex Noise Nest and in 2018 became a partner and owner of Big Noise Records along with former Vagrant Records head Joh Cohen and frontman and superstar producer John Feldmann (Felde started the bands Goldfinger and the Used, as well as producing Blink 182, Good Charlotte, Avril Lavigne, 5 Seconds of Summer, All Time Low and more).

Gross is one of the busiest and successful musicians/ entrepreneurs in the business. Let’s listen in for Nick’s words of wisdom as he takes us from the studio, to stage to behind the scenes of running a label and more.

S2 E11 - Up & Coming Country Drummers Jun 24, 2022

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S2 E10 - Brooke Colucci Jun 17, 2022

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Hello 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-Six & 2” hit over 12 million viewers.

A co-founding member of the 4-piece young rock band Plush featuring bassist/vocalist Ashley Suppa, lead guitarist Bella Perron with co-founder guitarist/singer/songwriter Moriah Formica, who also at a young age built a huge following since appearing on NBC’s TV show “The Voice, performed a video of her and Colucci covering Heart’s “Barracuda,” which exploded to seven-million views.

The band has been touring to promote their debut album for the past year. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “The future of rock bands is looking bright with Brooke and Plush. Let’s listen in!

S2 E9 - Fred Eltringham Jun 10, 2022

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Hello 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 gigging in NYC and California, then back to NYC, and now since 2007, residing in Nashville with his wife and children.
Listen in on how Fred’s career frustrations fell into circumstances that led him to become one of the most sought-after session drummers in Nashville, recording hit after hit, to playing, recording & touring as a band member with Sheryl Crow for the past ten years.
Eltringham has performed, and recorded with Vince Gill, Carrie Underwood, Kacey Musgraves, the Wallflowers, Willie Nelson, Ben Kweller, and many more.
In 2018, Fred (who’s super-shy and low-key, with impeccable time and feel) was honored “Drummer of the Year,” by the ACM awards. We caught up with the busy drummer a few days before he left to hit the road touring with Sheryl. Let’s listen!

S2 E8 - Eric Hernandez Jun 03, 2022

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Husband, 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 was a youngster, which also a few years later featured his five-year-old little brother Bruno, both went on to become performers at superstar levels; SNL, the Grammy’s, twice at the Super Bowl, millions of records sales and sold-out concerts all over the world.
Taking time with Drum Channel before gearing up to go back out with Silk Sonic, featuring his brother Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak, let’s stream in and listen.

S2 E7 - Tony Brock May 27, 2022

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Welcome 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 down, Tony and this last line-up wrote new songs for a new album and planed an upcoming tour for 2022 into 2023. Let’s welcome Tony Brock.

S2 E6 - Ed Greene May 20, 2022

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This 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 humble musicians on the planet, and his list of number ones and top-forty records is mind-blowing. Besides playing on all of Barry White's hits, as if that wasn’t enough, he’s played on classic recordings (still relevant today) of The Jackson’s, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Donna Summer, Diana Ross, Sammy Davis Jr., Paul Anka, Glen Campbell, Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Andy Kim, John “Cougar” Mellencamp, Seals & Crofts, Jeff Beck, the R&B band Tavares, and more.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in California by musician parents, Greene now lives in Nashville. Let’s listen to one of “the masters” of recording. Enjoy!

S2 E5 - Jerry Shirley May 13, 2022

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Welcome to this week's Drum Channel Podcast with Billy Amendola and his special guest Jerry Shirley of Humble Pie. The band recently celebrated the release of its 50th anniversary remaster of their 1972 album “Smokin’.”

Billy and the classic rock legend discuss Jerry’s early years with the band, Steve Marriott, Peter Frampton, Fastway, Jerry’s days as a radio DJ; interviewing Paul McCartney, going shopping with Keith Moon, Shirley’s 2011 autobiography “Best Seat in the House,” and more.

S2 E4 - Taylor Carroll May 06, 2022

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Starting his career at a young age, Taylor Carroll is a Grammy nominated and critically acclaimed musician, producer, songwriter, vocalist and new member of the nineties SoCal hit band Lit. (original drummer Allen Shellenberger died from brain cancer in 2009) With a background in music spanning over two decades, Carroll’s credit as a drummer includes live and recorded work with Taylor Swift, Pillar, two time Grammy award winner Bruce Carroll, (who is Taylor’s dad) and more. Lit’s latest album “Taste Like Gold” featuring brothers Ajay [vocals] and Jeremy Popoff [guitar], Kevin Baldes [bass], and Taylor Carroll [drums]—continue to do what they do best on their seventh full-length album. The band will also be touring to support the album throughout the summer of 2022.

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