That Drummer Guy Interviews...*Musician/Band/Artist Interview Thread*

[JRundquist]

Hey guys!

I'm back, hopefully participating for the most part in discussions again. I just moved to Minnesota a month ago yesterday. I am now living with the love of mylife and I am now about 10-15 minutes away from about 80% of concerts I go to, so an absolute win/win for me. Another HUGE plus for me is that I am now able to do phone interviews from home now with my new studio setup. I'm still getting used to just talking to someone over the phone instead of being right next to them. But now that I have the option to do phone interviews, emil/messenger interviews, and in person interviews. I am happy guy.

Since I am back, I did wanna start showcasing what I do as That Drummer Guy again. I know most people here love my reviews (which I appreciate) and some people here dig my radio show, but I never showcase off my interviews enough here and I wanna change that.

In the link below is ALL of the interviews I have done since November 2011 in Reverse Chronological order. I will post updates here everytime that I do a new one for everyone to enjoy. Just for an idea, here are the interviews I have done in the last week alone:

Francesco Artusato (Devil You Know, All Shall Perish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px6LWJhQWQQ


Glen Drover (King Diamond, Megadeth, Solo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLB8UhKx4U


Max Portnoy/Thomas Cuce (Next To None)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H2ZH7MCRCQ


DJ Heavygrinder
https://www.thatdrummerguy.com/written-interviewsreviews/that-drummer-guy-interviews-dj-heavygrinder

Even though it was a few weeks ago, here is my Steven Wilson interview as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWBK5XGwLxU



I got 3 more lined up today and PLENTY more on the horizon!


Hope you guys dig these interviews I have done for 3 and half years and everything I'll be doing in the future!

[SoundscapeMN]

Lot of great stuff in the interviews. Good idea to consolidate them in this topic.

On a sidenote, I just did my own 1st interview ever this past weekend with Jessy Ribordy, and you along with some people have inspired to try do more interviews (although I hardly expect to do as many as you do for various reasons, probably mostly lack of free time, lol).

[JRundquist]

Lot of great stuff in the interviews. Good idea to consolidate them in this topic.

On a sidenote, I just did my own 1st interview ever this past weekend with Jessy Ribordy, and you along with some people have inspired to try do more interviews (although I hardly expect to do as many as you do for various reasons, probably mostly lack of free time, lol).

I read that, you did a great job.

I'm happy I helped inspire you to do interviews as well. I know you cover much different ground than I do, so it's cool to see us covering music no one else will around our area.

[JRundquist]

Here's a new interview with Samus (66Samus, Decrepit Birth, The Fart Metal Guy On Youtube)

https://www.thatdrummerguy.com/blog/that-drummer-guy-interviews-samus-66samus-decrepit-birth

[JRundquist]

New interview with Doc Coyle (VH1 Modern Metal Columnist, ex God Forbid)


https://youtu.be/GorIIZlmsVo

[JRundquist]

Latest Written Interview!

Chris Clancy (Mutiny Within, Wearing Scars)

*Very Interesting Note: Chris tried out for both Killswitch Engage and Monuments before starting his new band, Wearing Scars*
https://www.thatdrummerguy.com/blog/that-drummer-guy-interviews-chris-clancy-wearing-scars-mutiny-within

[JRundquist]

New Interview!!!

Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Joe Satriani, Dethklok, countless other projects)

https://youtu.be/efFOZ7sqlKQ

*New LMR (Levin, Minnemann, Rudess) album coming soon!!!*

[JRundquist]

2 New Interviews!

Exmortus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmtExVpNXCw

Kyng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKFcKBPzCbs

[Sacul]

Damn I wish I knew some of the artists you interview

[JRundquist]

Damn I wish I knew some of the artists you interview

What a better way to discover these artists then to check them out in my interviews?

 

[JRundquist]

One of the greatest moments in my entire life.

11 Minutes with MARTY FRIEDMAN!!!

*Side Note: Marty would like to work  Deafheaven​ and Decapitated in the future*

https://youtu.be/xwEoudnCVJw

[JRundquist]

No Marty Friedman fans?

[JRundquist]

2 New Interviews

Jimmy Keegan (Spock's Beard, Asia, Tony Orlando, Children Of The Moon)
https://youtu.be/tWVD8O_SJB8

James-Paul Luna (Holy Grail)
https://youtu.be/NhMOHSg7Wzw

[bl5150]

No Marty Friedman fans?

bookmarked to check out shortly 

[JRundquist]

No Marty Friedman fans?

bookmarked to check out shortly 

Awesome, hope you like it.

[bl5150]

Nice interview - sounds like you were just warming up when he called time on you 

[JRundquist]

Nice interview - sounds like you were just warming up when he called time on you 

Haha I kinda was. THe Schedule for the itnerview got changed a bit and he said he'd call me back to do the interview, and had very limited time, so I left it as is.

Glad you dug it.

[JRundquist]

Many ProgPower interviews will be happening before during and after ProgPower. The first one happening, Riverside, that will be next Thursday.

[JRundquist]

In the last week, I have lined up 17 confirmed interviews that will be happening within the next month and a lot more still to be confirmed.

I've never been this busy in my live and I couldn't be happier.

To those who still check out what I do here, Thanks!

[JRundquist]

2 NEW INTERVIEWS!!!

Jim Matheos (Fates Warning, OSI, Arch/Matheos)
https://www.thatdrummerguy.com/blog/that-drummer-guy-interviews-jim-matheos-fates-warning-osi-archmatheos

Mariusz Duda (Riverside, Lunatic Soul)
https://youtu.be/YBj85Z-rn7A

[JRundquist]

NEW WRITTEN INTERVIEW: HOPE DRONE

FFO: ATMOSPHERIC BLACK METAL, POST ROCK, SLUDGE METAL
 
https://www.thatdrummerguy.com/blog/that-drummer-guy-interviews-christopher-and-karl-from-hope-drone

[JRundquist]

New Interview: Omnium Gatherum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm0o2VC6yM4

*If the interview doesn't work, let me know. Youtube has been giving me issues with it because of music in the background*

[sneakyblueberry]

That Steven Wilson interview is cool!  Listening to Marty now.

[JRundquist]

That Steven Wilson interview is cool!  Listening to Marty now.

Thanks! 

[JRundquist]

For those that know me best. here is my top 100 Albums of 2015 so far. *With no Dream Theater or Devin Townsend albums this year, there is no telling what the order will be at the end of the year*

1.) Native Construct- Quiet World
2.) Paradise Lost- The Plague Within
3.) Dekadent- Veritas
4.) Enslaved- In Times
5.) Arcturus- Arcturian
6.) Between The Buried And Me- Coma Ecliptic
7.) Vattnet Viskar- Settler
8.) 6:33- Deadly Scenes
9.) Arcane- Known/Learned
10.) Cattle Decapitation- The Anthropocene Extinction
11.) Hope Drone- Cloak of Ash
12.) Loch Vostok- From These Waters
13.) Steven Wilson- Hand. Cannot. Erase.
14.) Gruesome- Savage Land
15.) Leprous- The Congregation
16.) The Black Dahlia Murder- Abysmal
17.) Soilwork- The Ride Majestic
18.) Symphony X- Underworld
19.) Dracula- Swing Of Death
20.) Borealis- Purgatory
21.) Ghost- Meliora
22.) Izah- Sistere
23.) Faith No More- Sol Invictus
24.) Subterranean Masquerade- The Great Bazaar
25.) Silence Lies Fear- Future: The Return
26.) Wearing Scars- A Thousand Words
27.) Ghost Bath- Moonlover
28.) Riverside- Love, Fear and the Time Machine
29.) Carach Angren- This Is No Fairytale
30.) Pyramaze- Disciples of the Sun
31.) Horrendous- Anareta
32.) Cain's Offering- Stormcrow
33.) Chaos Divine- Colliding Skies
34.) Almah- Within the Last Eleven Lines
35.) The Man-Eating Tree- In The Absence Of Light
36.) Moonspell- Extinct
37.) Night Demon- Curse of the Damned
38.) Kaddisfly- Horses Galloping on Sailboats
39.) Tremonti- Cauterize
40.) Orpheus Omega- Partum Vita Mortem
41.) Keep Of Kalessin- Epistemology
42.) Thulcandra- Ascension Lost
43.) Shattered Skies- The World We Used to Know
44.) Teenage Time Killers- Greatest Hits Vol.1
45.) Act of Defiance- Birth and the Burial
46.) Nullingroots- Shrouds of Celeste
47.) Orden Ogan- Ravenhead
48.) Trailight- The Primitive Mountain
49.) Enforcer- From Beyond
50.) Tribulation- The Children Of The Night
51.) Kamelot- Haven
52.) Next To None- A Light In The Dark
53.) Blind Guardian- Beyond The Red Mirror
54.) Torche- Restarter
55.) The Aristocrats- Tres Caballeros
56.) Nile- What Should Not Be Unearthed
57.) Alkaloid- The Malkuth Grimoire
58.) Powerwolf- Blessed & Possessed
59.) King Parrot- Dead Set
60.) Amadeus Awad- Death Is Just A Feeling
61.) Kataklysm- Of Ghosts And Gods
62.)Ahab- The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
63.) Deadly Circus Fire- The Hydra's Tailor
64.) Drudkh- A Furrow Cut Short
65.) Amiensus- Ascension
66.) Fear Factory- Genexus
67.) Angra- Secret Garden
68.) Publicist UK- Forgive Yourself
69.) Lamb Of God- Sturm Und Drang
70.) Klone- Here Comes The Sun
71.) Rivers Of Nihil- Monarchy
72.) N R C S S S T- Schizophrenic Art
73.) Myrkur- M
74.) Hate Eternal- Infernus
75.) Muse- Drones
76.) Ghost Ship Octavius- Ghost Ship Octavius
77.) The Night Flight Orchestra- Skyline Whispers
78.) Johnny B. Morbid- Fall of the Cicada
79.) Forty Shades- Camera Silens
80.) Spock's Beard- The Oblivion Particle
81.) Beardfish- +4626-Comfortzone
82.) High On Fire- Luminiferous
83.) Krallice- Ygg huur
84.) Naive- Altra
85.) toe- Hear You
86.) The Gazette- Dogma
87.) Myridian- We, The Forlorn
88.) Napalm Death- Apex Predator - Easy Meat
89.) One Machine- The Final Cull
90.) Shining- IX - Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends
91.) Wrvth- Wrvth
92.) Oceanwake- Sunless
93.) Angelus Apatrida- Hidden Evolution
94.) Periphery- Juggernaut
95.) Mouse on the Keys- The Flowers of Romance
96.) The Order of Apollyon- The Sword and the Dagger
97.) Morgoth- Ungod
98.) Unleashed- Dawn of the Nine
99.) Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Asunder,Sweet and Other Distress
100.) Minsk- When The Walls Fell- The Crash and The Draw

[JRundquist]

New Written Interview!!!

Miguel Espinosa of Persefone

https://www.thatdrummerguy.com/blog/that-drummer-guy-interviews-persefones-miguel-espinosa

[JRundquist]

New Audio Interview

Dillon Barnes (KatoAppear)

FFO: Devin Townsend, Steven Wilson, Industrial, Ambient

https://youtu.be/wjQlqfH2CYg

[JRundquist]

For anyone who couldn't check out my interview with Omnium Gatherum. I did air the interview on my radio show this week. Check out the podcast version of the show here!

https://thatdrummerguy.podomatic.com/entry/2015-09-01T11_56_40-07_00

[JRundquist]

New Audio Interview

Ryan Van Poederooyen (Devin Townsend Project, Trailight, Ten Ways, Terror Syndrome)

https://youtu.be/ruCN1-fTZpk

[JRundquist]

Not sure how many people would be interested, but I took pics of all the bands from ProgPower USA this past weekend (except for Saxon, had to bow out early on Thursday) I picked my favorite ones and added one of my logos. SOme are amazing, some are the best I could get despite the enviroment. Anyways, Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.970138616379375.1073741879.193874310672480&type=3

[JRundquist]

3 NEW AUDIO INTERVIEWS

Falconer (LAST IN PERSON INTERVIEW EVER!!!!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdSA4cZ7QfI

Native Construct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skvbMn_aVio

Ashes Of Ares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVQovq1FzCg

[JRundquist]

NEW INTERVIEW

Sacha Dunable Of Intronaut
https://youtu.be/O-Tn2sBsGOo

[JRundquist]

New Interview!

Anders Ljung of Casablanca
FFO: 70s-80s Hard Rock/Heavy Metal

https://youtu.be/h-4qQrfKihE

[JRundquist]

NEW INTERVIEW

Warrel Dane (Sanctuary, Nevermore, solo)

https://youtu.be/6rRgyfYug-g

[JRundquist]

New Interview

Wings Denied

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=masykeK1f9s