You know, you had to relearn a bunch of stuff. It was head injury stuff, you know, in memory and whatnot.

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

I want to play something for you.

I want to play something for you. You're hearing torn by the fox of the crescent moon by Earth, featuring my guest Adrian Davies on drums.

Adrian joined the long-running Washington band in 2001, and is now its longest tenured drummer.

From the beginning, she exhibited the requisite knack for the band's signature slow tempos.

And over the course of several albums, Adrian has developed a sense of sonic adventurousness and nuance

that perfectly complements and

differentiates the band's hypnotic, meditative compositions. I spoke to her at the Woodland

Theater in Seattle prior to a recent gig. And now my conversation with Adrian Davies.

Well, I had four brothers, one real three-step, and they were all very musical kind of

partridge family, like really, everybody played everything.

But I remember we had this old Ludwig blue, black, white, swirl kit.

It was kind of beat up, wasn't in the best, you know, but we would fight over it, wrestle over it.

Pile drivers, half Nelson's, everything to try to, you know, claim King of the Hill on the drum set.

That was always what me and my brothers fought over.

And it's just, I'm looking back on it, I'm like, hmm, like, hey, I guess I wanted it more than they did because,

you know, they don't play drums now, and I do. What did your parents do? My mom was an oar nurse,

and then she later did like transplants and like would fly and procure hearts and lungs and whatever. So she'd be on like the transplant team that would fly off from the helicopter.

And my dad was a, my stepdad was an anesthesiologist. So a lot of medical jargon.

Cool. Did any of your siblings become doctors or nurses? No. Oddly enough. My real brother is a lawyer. When he prepped past the bar, I was like, oh, that takes a lot of sweat off my back. The minute he had kids, the minute he became

a lawyer, I was like, oh, all the, you know, the urge for that kind of having to, you know,

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