Chad Smith Quotes

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I'm being a dad and a good husband.

I’m being a dad and a good husband.

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2

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn’t too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88′ and we finished recording Mother‘s Milk at the end of 89′, next thing I know I’m in Spin with a sock.

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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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Family time is really important to me.

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5

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

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6

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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Playing well with others is important – not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

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8

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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9

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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10

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

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11

The Meatbats are a throwback band.

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12

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

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13

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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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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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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