The Drum Panel: did someone leave shoes in the dryer ?

This week on Drummers on Drumming, we’re back with another installment of The Drum Panel with Eric Urrea and William Goldsmith.

William is the drummer for Sunny Day Real Estate and was also the original touring drummer for Foo Fighters. I’ve had him on the podcast before, and he’s incredibly funny, down to earth, and always really thoughtful about this stuff without taking any of it too seriously.

We continue putting the new Drum Panel format to work this week, hitting questions from The Work, The Playing, The Why, Drummer Problems, Records + Drummers, The Hang, and Hot Takes.

In this episode:

The stuff we leave out when people ask how our careers are going

Who first made us comfortable enough to sound bad in front of them

Getting out of your own way when coming up with drum parts

How much of our taste was decided when we were kids

Why certain drum sounds just feel right to us

What to do when you hate the programmed drum part you’re being asked to play

The difference between playing the part and figuring out what somebody actually wants from it

Drummers people assume influenced us who really didn’t