Chad Smith Quotes

• There’s something about the rawness of the live thing, there’s no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It’s exciting, it’s about the performance.

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• The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it’s within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term ‘instrumental music’ you think it’s real serious stuff and everybody’s playing a million notes and it’s about playing fast. That’s not what we do.

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• People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don’t get it too much, but I’ll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

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• I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It’s like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It’s really fun and there’s a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.

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• Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it’s got everything, man. It’s got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It’s beautiful.

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• The Meatbats are a throwback band.

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• Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

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• In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

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• I’m being a dad and a good husband.

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• I’m a musician. It’s what I do! I wouldn’t be too good at anything else.

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• I’m a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

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• I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I’m in at the time.

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• I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.

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• Family time is really important to me.

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• Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

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• Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

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• Drums all have their own particulars – each drum has a place where they sound the best – where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn’t too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

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• For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms – you can get away with using four mikes.

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• I took a private lesson, but it didn’t really work out, so I went back to playing along with records. That’s really the thing that got me into playing a lot – getting excited about playing along with my favorite bands like Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

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• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

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Chad Smith (27)

Birth:	25th October, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Drummer

About

Chadwick Gaylord "Chad" Smith was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is an American drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers, whom he joined in 1988 and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also the drummer of the hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot and currently the all-instrumental outfit Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats. Readers of UK-based Rhythm magazine ranked Smith and Red Hot Chili Pepper bassist Flea the fourth-greatest rhythm section of all time in their June 2013 issue.

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