Rob
Ladd has hit the big time, again. First, he did it by sharing drum
duties on Alanis Morissette's smash
debut, Jagged Little Pill. These
days he's doing it on Don Henley's Inside Job tour.
Rob and Don first
crossed paths back in '91 while Rob was the drummer
for ex-Bangles Susanna Hoffs' solo tour. "When Don's
music
director/guitarist Frank Simms was putting the new band together, he
called to invite me down to the auditions," Rob
explains. "I learned
nine songs in two days, straight from the records." As one would expect
with such a high-profile gig, there
were plenty of drummers at that
audition. "Some of my friends were there, even some very familiar
faces," he says. "I was a
little nervous."
From a drummer's perspective, Rob's current gig has to be
challenging, since he's
playing for one of rock's most famous drummers.
"It's very exciting," Rob says. "I can put a healthy amount of
pressure
on myself every night, knowing Don's listening closely to the drum
parts. He hears everything I play, so I feel
obligated to do a good
job."
