107: Joey Waronker (Beck, Atoms For Peace, Elliott Smith, Ultraista, REM)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Joey Waronker possesses a powerful groove and a gift for nuance and shading. These attributes--combined with a deep understanding of production and a knack for electronic percussion--are what distinguish him as one of the leading drummers of the modern paradigm. He tells Joe about growing up in a musical family; studying with the legendary Freddie Gruber; his love of the punk label, SST Records; overcoming his neuroses through therapy; and working with artists like Beck and REM. He also answers listener questions.

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0:00.0	The Trap Set will always be available for free, but we rely on donations from our listeners.
0:05.4	Please visit our website at thetrapset.net and click Donate.
0:09.2	Subscribe to our show on iTunes, and if you enjoy what you hear, give us a review. This is Joe Wong.
0:27.6	Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:32.6	I want to play something for you. You're hearing Bad Insect by Ultraista, featuring my guest Joey Warringer on drums.
1:05.5	Growing up in a musical family, Joey had the opportunity to attend sessions featuring legends such as Steve Gadd and Jim
1:12.7	Keltner. He began working with Beck early in his career, his impressive command of groove
1:18.7	and mastery of nuance making him a force to be reckoned with, and his deep knowledge of production
1:24.4	and electronic percussion make him one of the foremost studio
1:27.9	drummers of the modern paradigm.
1:32.6	Over the past 20 years, Joey's worked with everyone from R.E.M. to Neil Diamond, from
1:37.5	Elliot Smith to Roger Waters. Aside from his work as a hired gun, Joey has also been
1:43.6	a founding member of several bands,
1:45.6	such as Adams for Peace, Altraista, and Walt Mink.
1:49.4	Recently, he's also become more active as a producer.
1:52.3	...to me like you do.
1:56.3	The lazies don't love me, they don't talk to me like they used to.
2:05.6	So I'm going out.
2:07.6	The first memory that pops into my head would be, uh, well, probably my sister being born born when I was like three years old being in the uh the waiting room
2:40.5	with my dad and there were two kind of very scary men sleeping they had hats pulled over their
2:47.5	faces and they were snoring or at least my memory is that they were both
2:51.2	snoring and uh it looked like they had sort of like black holes for eyes so i i got very scared
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