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This is Joe Wong.

Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I'd like to play something for you.

I'd like to play something for you. You're hearing another one rides the bus by Weirdell Yankovic,

featuring my guest, John Bermuda Schwartz on percussion.

And by percussion, I mean accordion case.

Elle met the drummer at Dr. Demento's studio, moments before this was recorded in 1980, and he

asked him to bang along.

The rest is history.

As we'll discuss in the interview, no one, not even Elle or Bermuda, could have predicted

the success to come.

Although the sound and stars of pop music have turned over many times in the past few decades,

Al and his band have stayed current and created hit after hit.

As Al's career developed, the sound of his tracks became more and more dialed in,

virtually indistinguishable from the original songs.

Bermuda and the band have proven themselves masterful at reverse engineering the sound and feel of everything from Michael Jackson to Nirvana to Lady Gaga.

Much of the appeal of Al's music lies in his incredibly funny and clever lyrics, but the convincing recreations by the band provide the straight man to Elle's comedy stylings.

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