153: Abe Rounds (Meshell Ndegeocello, Seal, Doyle Bramhall, Andrew Bird)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Abe Rounds was born into a musical family in Sydney and began drumming at age one. Now 26, he has quickly become one of his generation's most sought-after drummers. Abe tells Joe about his love of golf, his one-time gambling addiction, the demons of doubt, his interest in crypto currency, learning to write his own music, and working with everyone from Meshell Ndegeocello to Seal.

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0:00.0	If you were to mentor somebody who was very similar to, say, 16-year-old Abe, what would be the lessons you would pass down to that person?
0:10.5	Oh, I'd say, yeah, the casino.
0:12.3	You were already in the casino at 16.
0:14.2	No, no, no, no, that's not true.
0:29.6	Yeah. This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:35.6	I want to play something for you.
1:03.3	You're hearing Batukata by Elaine Mallet featuring my guest Abe Rounds on drums.
1:10.1	Born in Sydney, Australia to a musician father and a hairdresser mother, Abe began drumming at age one and was playing professionally
1:12.3	by the time he was a teenager.
1:14.8	Now based in Los Angeles, Abe has quickly become one of his generation's most sought-after
1:20.1	drummers.
1:21.1	At age 26, he's already worked with several highly respected artists, such as Michelle
1:26.6	Indeggio cello
1:29.3	Doyle Bramhall Amy Mann and Andrew Bird Abe's new songwriting project Jake and Abe
1:35.7	illuminates the promise of an exciting artist coming into his own and now my
1:41.7	conversation with Abe Browns.
1:54.8	I'm a really big sports guy, so I played a lot of different sports sports.
1:56.7	I wanted to be a golfer.
2:00.3	It was a period of time where I played golf every every day for like five years so that was I was
2:01.9	really focused on that but then music sort of took over in a way Greg Norman yeah the
2:08.0	national hero he's a big hero of mine for sure more so some of the more modern day golfers but yeah
2:13.9	the shark was always up there did you get the same kind of visceral enjoyment out of golf
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