4.8 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2016
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In this bonus mini-episode, Fluke Holland tells Joe about his signature drum sound; playing with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash; and why Cash chose to wear black.
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0:00.0 | This is a bonus outtake from our interview with Fluke Holland. You can hear Fluk's entire full-length |
0:06.1 | episode, and you can be sure never to miss an episode of the trap set if you just subscribe for free |
0:11.9 | on iTunes or your favorite podcast app. It seems like from the early days, you already kind of |
0:17.9 | developed a pretty distinctive style of your own. |
0:24.7 | You could hear a particular sound on those early Sun records where you're playing the rim of the drum, |
0:26.9 | kind of instead of a high hat, and it's a tapping kind of a sound, |
0:29.9 | and then there's tape echo, delay. |
0:32.5 | How did that come about? |
0:34.0 | Well, the style that we were playing, |
0:45.3 | it's like I say, it wasn't something, we didn't have a choice to play any other way. Like Carl on the guitar, or a boy Luther Perkins on the guitar behind Johnny Cash. Jerry Lee was a piano. It's really weird about, |
1:02.8 | nobody thought anything about it back then, but even now, this many years later, and this is |
1:08.4 | what's kind of strange to me. |
1:14.2 | Any instrument, |
1:17.5 | no matter who plays it when they touch it, |
1:20.2 | the instrument even sounds different. |
1:20.8 | Right. You know, even like 50 guitar players pick up a guitar |
1:25.3 | and they'll all sound different and and then there |
1:33.2 | wasn't all that much music being done so it's like in my case none none of the |
1:40.9 | small bands had drums no No country music had drums. |
1:47.0 | The word rock and roll hadn't been thought about yet. |
1:51.0 | There'd been some music that was called rock and roll later, |
1:55.0 | but nobody'd give it that name. |
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