Click to expand The SunDog Guest. Big names will often have a dedicated "tech". Someone that acts as a sort of personal assistant for all things drums. These guys even help with designing kits specific to a tour, ordering the drums, overseeing construction and quality control, even taking delivery of the drums.
Neil Pearts tech even gives guided tours of Neils kit in every city prior to the show and discusses the drums and their care in detail. Of course these jobs can be kind of hard to get and the people that get them tend to be extremely effective and organized types.
FreDrummer Silver Member. FreDrummer said:. I think you'd have to be part machinist, part handyman, go-fer, and an excellent tuner Diet Kirk Silver Member. I think its often just a part of your money making arsenal too rather than a full time job for the majority of drum techs.
I have a friend who plays in a number of bands, records, teaches and drum techs for a couple of different drummers all to make a reasonable living. Souljacker Silver Member. I personally know a few drum techs and none of them JUST tech. He techs for multiple bands to stay busy. I think being able to set up drums, tune them and maintain them is the bare minimum part of the job requirement. More important than that is to be a good hang, easy to get along with, fun, self motivated and happy.
Thats the same stuff that gets you gigs too. I have worked with countless bands as a promoter and one of the perks was getting to meet the bands often times. I also had to work with hundreds of techs making sure we could meet the rider requirements. One quality I found was they were all nice guys who were very professional. Business-wise, I own and self manage my company DrumTechSupport that I set up the moment I started in the industry as a freelancer. The business has developed many avenues over the years; live teching, studio teching, vintage drum hire, restoration, and endorsement assistance.
Drum tech provision to artists has also become primary focus over the last 18 months. There is now a strong stable of drum techs working under the umbrella of DTS on numerous projects. How long have you been doing it? The position allowed me to hone my skills and develop my knowledge very quickly.
Were you a drummer to begin with? I picked up the stick and went to my local drum shop the next day and asked for a pair of the same sticks …. I started playing on pillows and things at home. I had a couple of drum lessons, gave up, and then restarted again by teaching myself to play.
From there I was in a few bands around Manchester, then a band in Cheltenham, before joining a band in London called The Others, which had a fair amount of commercial success; Top 40 singles and albums, radio and TV work, press coverage etc. It took me halfway around the world a couple of times and we won the NME award for innovation. How did you get into it in the first place?
After leaving the band I had some time off, wondering what to do. I enjoyed working with vintage drums, collecting, fixing and restoring for my own collection. I still had a lot of passion for drums and wanted to be back in the industry but not as a player. Working at JH reaffirmed my passion for this side of the industry, it allowed me to develop as a tech, grow, learn and experience things that I would have paid money to do!
Re: Drum Techs I had an opportunity to be a drum tech with a well-known hard rock group back in the 80's. They had a lot of success that slowly began in the late 70's and in carried over steam rolled into and throughout the 80's. A former band mate of mine became the guitar tech for this band, In fact he left the band for the position and a year or so afterwards he asked me if I was interested in the drum tech spot.
They pay was average Not necessarily the drum tech part, put all the other things that went with it. Long hours before and after the show. Lot's of travel Their was very little downtime - and most down time that you'd have would be spent in transit in cramped quarters with a group of stinky bodies.
As bad as my buddy made it sound I appreciated his honesty But he was a weirdo to begin with. It is there important to build a network of clientele in order to gain steady work [2]. Drum technicians generally rely on these connections and personal referrals for work, as you will rarely see a job advertisement for a touring drum technician [1].
Scott Johnson — The drum technician for Radiohead, who was killed in a stage collapsing incident in June [11]. Gary Grimm — P! Max Marzocca — Drummer and drum tech. He has been a drum technician for Kevin Paradis who plays for the bands Mithridatic and Melechesh [12]. He plays drums for Andrew W.
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