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Chad Gracey
(September 2005 Issue)
Not Quite As Live
As Usual "The thing I'm most
particular about is the snare drum," Live's Chad Gracey says during a
recent
interview, answering a question about his drum sounds. "Right
now I'm using a - God, I knew this was going to leave me.
Oh, man, I'll
think of it!"
Though Gracey's memory is apparently on the fritz at the moment,
his
performance sure isn't, as best evidenced on Live's recently released V. Gracey banged out all his drum
parts in a couple of weeks, and contrary to the band's moniker, the recording session for V was anything but
live. (Basic tracking sessions for the band's earlier releases were always recorded with the full band.)
"This time
Ed [Kowalczyk, singer/songwriter] went in with his ideas and
laid down scratch tracks with a click track," Gracey explains.
"Then I
went in and laid down the drum parts afterwards by myself. That was
amazing for me. It freed me up from having to try
to play the whole
song all the way through. I could do everything I wanted to do and not
worry about messing up."
As for the snare drum Gracey couldn't remember. Thanks to the latest in
technology, he was able to fire off an
email message a few minutes
later: "I just called my tech and found out the name," he says. "It's a
Keplinger snare. So
there you have it."
Waleed Rashidi
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