I never liked the old school metal bands, like Metallica, Megadeth etc., the music just doesn’t appeal to me so I never gave metal a chance. I developed my own musical taste quite late. How come you ended up playing what, at least to most people, would be categorized as metal? You grew up listening to what was playing on your dad’s system: Steely Dan, Neil Young and Pink Floyd snd have said that you are not really “a metal” guy per se. I was just playing for a hobby really until I heard the song “Aja” by Steely Dan – and Steve Gadd’s performance on that track… I knew at that point that I was going to be a drummer. My family pooled together to buy me my first drum kit (a black Hohner LEX). At age 11 I switched out keyboard for drums and started playing in a school band. When I was three, my parents bought me a small keyboard for Christmas, which I just knew how to play. When and how was your interest in music sparked? And was drums always the instrument you strived to play?
