Eric Valentine
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Eric Valentine: Firing It Up With Luke
Eric Valentine has always enjoyed performing with different people, so going from Patti LaBelle to former Toto six-stringer Steve Lukather wasn’t really a challenge for him, it was just another gig. “When I was growing up,” Valentine says, “I listened…
Eric Valentine
Hello, MD readers. Facility vs. humility. (Being a professional Modern Drummer.) And the winner is? It took me quite some time before I recognized that drumming would be a such a dominant part of my life–and even more importantly, that…
Mark O'Connell of Taking Back Sunday
“That guy is seriously a genius,” says Taking Back Sunday drummer Mark O’Connell. The “genius” O’Connell speaks of happens to be Eric Valentine–the producer of Taking Back Sunday’s third album (and Warner Bros. debut), Louder Now–whom O’Connell notes as the…
