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This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

On November 21st, I traveled to View Corray in St. Paul, Minnesota to speak with a panel of some of the Twin Cities' most interesting drummers.

I'd like to thank Tim Brunel, Jake Nyberg, and everyone in attendance for helping make the show

a huge success. And now I want to play something for you.

So I'd like to introduce you to our panel. First, you'll know him from his work with the Steve Miller band, Mr. Gordy Knutzen.

This next gentleman was a member of Weather Report.

He's played with McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson, among many other geniuses of modern music.

Mr. Eric Gravatt. Next up, you know her from her work with Babes in Toyland, one of the great bands to come out of the Twin Cities in the past 30 years.

Miss Laurie Barbaro.

And finally, you know him from his work with Brick-Layer Cake and Shillac,

Mr. Todd Traynor.

Thank you. Gordy, can you remember the first time you played drums?

Yes, it was in grade school.

In about third grade, somebody brought in a set of drums for show and tell. And the teacher, I played, I was playing piano at that point in time.

And the teacher said, let everybody come up and do some stuff on it,

and I did some stuff on it. They liked what I did.

I don't know, I'd never seen one before. I never played before.

Did you get a visceral response from playing drums

that you didn't get from playing piano?

Maybe a little bit, mostly because I could figure out

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