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Adam Pedretti (March 2002 Issue)
Big Down UnderFor Killing Heidi drummer Adam Pedretti, the common link between his
former band,
hardcore rockers NIL, and his present group, the
teen-appeal rock band fronted by seventeen-year-old bombshell Ella
Hooper,
was producer Paul Kosky. "Paul had worked with NIL as producer,
so he knew I could play a little bit off-the-wall," says Pedretti
from
his home in Melbourne, Australia.
While Killing Heidi have played only a handful of club showcases in
the
States, they regularly draw crowds in the tens of thousands at huge
Australian music festivals like The Big Day Out. They
also do in-store
record signings that routinely attract up to three thousand fans. "It can get a little bit nuts," Pedretti
laughs.
Killing Heidi's debut, Reflector,
was recorded entirely on Pro Tools, giving Pedretti and
Kosky a lot of
freedom. "We could play over parts on songs like 'Mascara' or
'superman/Supergirl'
[which feature abrupt time changes], where I could
be riding a double kick drum all the way through. By the end of
recording
we were tracking over drums and doing all this weird stuff.
It was a compromise of what Paul wanted, what I wanted, and stuff
we
made up along the way."
Pedretti reckons that Reflector
provided him with the ability to grow
artistically. "I feel I'm a much
better player now because of it," he insists. "Now I can jump into any
kind of situation.
Whatever we do, it's no problem."
Gail Worley
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