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Michael Brueggen
(August 2005 Issue)
Solid With Supagroup New Orleans-based
rock 'n' roll traditionalists Supagroup spent half of 2003 and most of
2004 on the
road with bands like Queens Of The Stone Age, Fu Manchu,
and Drive By Truckers, touring in relentless support of its
much
praised, self-titled fourth album. On Supagroup, the
high-energy quartet mix the classic blues rock of early
Rolling Stones
and Humble Pie with the guitar ferocity of AC/DC, the Supersuckers' sly
humor, and a prevalent
'drink and rock' good-time vibe.
?It's only rock 'n' roll, - says drummer Michael Brueggen.
"that's the
music I grew up on and still love. I learned to drum by playing along
to records by Van Halen and Led
Zeppelin." Along with influences like
John Bonham, Alex Van Halen, and Frank Beard of ZZ Top, Michael credits
Matt Walker
(Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage) as a serious source of
inspiration. "I grew up knowing Matt, and I tried to copy everything
he
did," he says.
Brueggen was playing with hard rock act Syrup and doing occasional gigs
with Rock City
Morgue when he got a call from his friend Chris Lee,
Supagroup's lead singer and guitarist. Lee asked Brueggen
to
immediately step in for Supagroup's recently departed drummer when the
band was due to record its next album. He
was up for it. "When I went
in to do the record," Michael explains, "I had played those songs for
maybe fifteen days. Then
when we recorded, a lot of the songs were
captured on the second take. It was more important for me to land the
changes
than to add frills."
Gail
Worle
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