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Craig "Clune" McClune
(November 2003 Issue)
Shades Of Gray Well-known to
David Gray
fans as the singing drummer who wears loud Hawaiian shirts, Craig
"Clune" McClune is the longest-standing
member of the popular
singer-songwriter's band. He's also a key collaborator in crafting the
melodic folk-rock of
A New Day At Midnight, Gray's fifth album and the follow-up to the platinum smash White
Ladder.
"Clune is the musician I'm closest to," Gray says. "In general I listen
more for the melody,
the general atmosphere, or the words and vocals.
Clune helps me figure out what I want to feel from the rhythm and
drums.
But he's more than a drummer - he played most of the bass lines on
the record as well."
An imaginative
mixture of programmed loops and sensitive live drumming
with his favored Flix Stix (fiber rods), Clune's playing on A
New Day At Midnight
brings to mind the great Dave Mattacks. Witness the drummer's proudest
accomplishment,
"The Other Side." "I love how we dealt with the drums
on that one," Clune says. "It sounds like I'm pounding the hell out
of
the kit, but I'm not. I'm actually playing very quietly. What we did
was compress the hell out of the sound. Even
though I was playing
lightly, the effect is just so big."
Jim DeRogatis
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