Drummers on Drumming
A podcast for drummers who think too much. Ben Hilzinger talks to the greats about creativity, identity, staying sane, and finding purpose behind the kit.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 252
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Big Fat Five: Bill Bruford's (Yes / King Crimson / Earthworks / Genesis) 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is THE Bill Bruford. Bill is a legendary drummer whose illustrious career spans over five decades, marked by pioneering contributions to progressive rock, jazz fusion, and beyond. E…
00:45:58 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Big Fat Five: Brian Dunne's (Hall & Oates / Live at Daryl's House) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Brian Dunne. Brian is the current drummer for Hall & Oates as well as the house drummer for Live From Daryl's House. Everything Brian plays sounds like a pre-produced groove and …
00:36:49 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
Big Fat Five: Sarah Jones' (Harry Styles / New Young Pony Club / Hot Chip) Top 5 Influential Records
This week's guest is Sarah Jones…an English musician best known for being a session and touring drummer. She has recorded and/or toured with New Young Pony Club, Aynsley Lister, Bat for Lashes, Pusci…
00:43:44 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
Big Fat Five: Arbak Dal's (T Cymbals / Independent) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Arbak Dal––a phenomenal turkish drummer and founder of T Cymbals. He’s toured and/or recorded with countless European artists over the years in addition to his own solo projects.…
00:40:14 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
Big Fat Five: JP Bouvet's (Childish Japes / Educator) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is JP Bouvet. JP is a fabulous drummer, educator and winner of the 2011 Guitar Center Drum Off. He has his own band called Childish Japes and has toured with artists like Steve Tai …
00:55:48 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
Big Fat Five: Ray Brown's (Snail Mail) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Ray Brown...drummer for the band Snail Mail. I’ve been a big fan of Ray's drumming since I first heard him on Snail Mail’s debut album, Lush, in 2017. His upbringing in the DC ar…
00:47:56 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
Big Fat Five: Rhys Hastings' (Yves Tumor / Educator) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Rhys Hastings. This episode has been a long time coming as both Rhys and myself have been two ships in the night trying to schedule this thing. We’ve both had an insanely busy ye…
01:03:13 |
Wed 03 Jan 2024
My End of Year REQUEST!!!!
I need your help to make this show the best it can be going into the new year. Even after 170+ episodes...I'm ALL EARS on how I can improve. Below is a link to an anonymous survey for you to give me …
00:02:47 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
Big Fat Five: Zach Jones' (Sting) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Zach Jones. Zach is a is a drummer, singer, songwriter, and producer from Brooklyn, NY. Zach has performed and recorded with artists such as Sting, Ingrid Michaelson, A Great Big…
00:55:00 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
Big Fat Five: Griffin Goldsmith's (Dawes) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Griffin Goldsmith, drummer for the band Dawes. I’ve been lucky enough to see Griffin perform a few times in person the last month and he is quickly becoming one of my favorite dr…
00:38:07 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
Big Fat Five: Evan Woodle's (Heatwarmer, Karl Blau, Racer Sessions) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Evan Woodle. I was turned onto Evan’s playing through a previous guest of the podcast, Sheridan Riley of the band Alvvays. Evan got his start in the internationally acclaimed Roo…
00:45:22 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
Big Fat Five: Yoni Madar's (Independent / Multi-Instrumentalist) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Yoni Madar. Yoni is an Israeli multi-instrumentalist with an incredible facility on the kit; it’s a mad scientist level of technical ability. He has released multiple books on hi…
00:38:03 |
Wed 29 Nov 2023
Big Fat Five: Branden Steineckert's (Rancid, The Used) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Branden Steineckert. Brandon will always be a massive part of my childhood as a founding member of The Used (specifically the first two records for which he played drums and had …
00:59:31 |
Wed 22 Nov 2023
Big Fat Five: Travis Orbin's (Darkest Hour, Independent) Top 5 influential Records
This week’s guest is Travis Orbin…Travis is a progressive / metal-leaning drummer who has recorded and/or performed with Darkest Hour, Of Legends, Sky Eats Airplane, Periphery and many more heavy hit…
00:39:05 |
Wed 15 Nov 2023
Big Fat Five: Chris Icasiano's (Fleet Foxes, Bad Luck, Pure Bathing Culture) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Chris Icasiano - Chris is a Filipino-American percussionist and composer from Redmond, WA. His specialization in free-improvisation and experimental music combined with his vast …
00:45:05 |
Wed 08 Nov 2023
Big Fat Five: Brody Simpson's Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Brody Simpson. I’ve been wanting to re-work this episode and shoot it to the top of the feed because this conversation, which originally aired in August of 2020, is an episode th…
00:55:12 |
Wed 18 Oct 2023
Big Fat Five: Rob Humphreys (Kacey Musgraves, Nikki Costa) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Rob Humphreys. Originally from New Mexico, Rob currently lives in Los Angeles and has quite the impressive list of professional credits having played and/or recorded with Billy R…
00:53:30 |
Wed 11 Oct 2023
Rest in Peace Dom Famularo
This past week, we lost a very important member of the drumming community, Dom Famularo. Known as "Drumming's Global Ambassador" spent the last 30 years traveling the globe preaching the gospel of dr…
00:41:49 |
Wed 04 Oct 2023
Big Fat Five: Jimmy Chamberlin's (The Smashing Pumpkins, Jimmy Chamberlin Complex) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is THE Jimmy Chamberlin. He is a singular player that blends jazz/rock/prog and I was SO curious as to what his top 5 would be; and he did not disappoint. He is, of course, most kno…
01:19:50 |
Wed 27 Sep 2023
Big Fat Five: Tommy Igoe's Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Tommy Igoe. Tommy is a world-class musician / producer / author / creator based in San Francisco, CA. He is the top-selling author in his field with four #1 titles on Amazon.com.…
00:51:04 |
Wed 20 Sep 2023
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