Hey, Peter. I've tried to avoid asking you anything that I think might possibly be off limits. I think this one might be okay, but feel free to ignore it if you think it might go too far: I was wondering, how long was the audition altogether? I know it must have been longer than the 8-minutes that was shown of Mr. Mangini's, but it's hard to tell from the edited film how long it actually took. I'm guessing something like:
-Arrive, say hellos, and set up the kit the way you like it: 15 min.
-Warm up and fine tune the kit: 15 min.
-Play DT tunes: 30 min. (which assumes there isn't a whole lot of talking, etc. in between songs--or is there?)
-Talk for a few minutes about the jam tunes/new riff exercise, and then jam: 20 min.
-Verbal "interview": 30 min.
That's roughly 2 hours worth, which feels like it should be about right. Can you share any details about how close that is to the actual? Again, if not, or if you want to wait until the full documentary is out, I can understand.
Hey!
No worries asking whatever. I'll have to judge what I can answer and not I guess.
Between the start of every drummer audition there were four hours. That left enough time for the drummer to audition, talk and get interviewed. Also the DT guys had a talk after each drummer auditioned.
I was the last one auditioning so there were no one after me. This is roughly what happened at my audition:
Meet and great, 10 minutes
Drum setup, tuning etc. 30 minutes
Warmup, 10 minutes
Jam, 15 minutes (this was simply amazing!!! Here I was jamming with these guys)
Went through the three songs, 30 minutes
"Test", 15 minutes (but it felt like an hour, ha ha ha. No not really, was actually fun!)
Interview, small talk etc, almost an hour since there were no stress.
During this time I also hade some food from the buffé and then the pizza that according to JP was the best in NYC!
I actually think all in all we were there for a bit more than three hours. Because of Static Impulse James and I talked a bit about that too. Also the manager and his wife are amazing persons and my wife and I talked a lot to the too.
All in all the whole audition was fantastic to say the least! Once again I have to say that all people involved were very very nice!!!