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Chad Chapin
(August 2005 Issue)
Band Of Brothers "It's definitely
hotter when you have blood running in the rhythm section,"
says Tait
drummer Chad Chapin. Chapin and his bass-wielding brother Lonnie began
playing together twenty-two years ago at
their dad's church in Bend,
Oregon. "We'd go down to church at night and write bass and drum
riffs - it was what
we did. We worked on different timing and learning
tight and intricate things together. It helped us learn how to lay it
down nice
and fat."
Over the past four years, the Chapin
brothers have played together professionally as the driving force
behind
the straight-forward rock band Tait. "Lonnie and I are like
Siamese twins," he says. "I know all of his little quirks, and he
knows
mine. We'll go into a break and end up playing the same line. We'll
look at each other and just
laugh."
Stylistically, Chapin has been called "The Tommy Lee of Christian
music," and he, too, allows the groove to
engulf him. "I bring passion
into my playing," he says. "In Nashville, and when we tour, I see so
many stale, boring drummers
out there. When I'm done with a show, I
feel like I've sprinted for twenty miles. I can't even breathe, and
my
lungs are burning. And I play that way whether there are two hundred
people in the audience or twenty
thousand."
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