Drum Channel Podcast

Drum Channel Podcast

The Drum Channel Podcast is where you will hear conversations with the world's greatest drummers and percussionists. Hear their stories and be inspired to take your drumming to the next level.

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May 22, 2024 54 mins

Hello everyone, welcome to Billy’s Bubble! This episode features a behind-the-scenes look into Def Leppard’s Rick Allen and singer/songwriter Lauren Monroe’s organization Raven Drum Foundation.  The organization was started twenty years ago by Rick & Lauren to raise awareness of healing through music, with drum circles, (with many top drummers & musicians) and raising funds for Veterans, First Responders, and people sufferi...

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Hello everyone, Billy Amendola here.
 
My guest today Fred Coury is mostly known as the drummer from the eighties MTV-multi-platinum-band Cinderella. 
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January 19, 2024 50 mins
Hello everyone! Billy A. here with my guest Cole Marcus, who is no stranger to our Drum Channel audience. I remember meeting and seeing Cole mesmerize a crowd at a NAMM SHOW when he was four years old, which doesn’t sound odd these days, but over two decades ago, it wasn’t as common as now. These days, now twenty-fi...
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January 12, 2024 78 mins
Hello everyone, Billy Amendola here on Drum Channel with my long-time friend and R&B/Soul legend Earl Young. 
 
Earl, known as the founder and singer of the group The Trammps, (and recording drummer) took the disco world to the mainstream pop charts with their smash hit “Disco Inferno” among others. 
 
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Hello everyone! John Cowsill is back, and this time he brought his beautiful wife Vicki. 
 
Most of you on Drum Channel should be familiar with John’s career, he’s been drumming almost as long as he’s been walking. 
 
We’re going to talk about his appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show at age eight years old with his family band The Cowsi...
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December 29, 2023 49 mins
Hello, my Drum Channel family! Billy Amendola here in my “Bubble” with, our special guest, superstar Rick Astley. 
 
Before exploding on the pop charts in the 1980s, Astley was playing drums in bands and singing from behind the kit. Once he stepped out front, a new calling began. He was labeled one of the best singers to come out of the U.K. and take America by storm with his...
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December 22, 2023 66 mins
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December 15, 2023 46 mins

Hello Everyone, welcome to “Billy’s Bubble” on Drum Channel.

Today’s show features my co-host, longtime friend, and the beat on every Billy Joel hit, Liberty DeVitto.  

Lib & I got together to honor and pay tribute to the late great Hall of Fame drummer Dino Danelli. 

The legendary drummer best known as an innovator, inspiration, and influence to thousands of musicians, first ...

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December 8, 2023 55 mins

Hello everyone! This is a “Billy's Bubble” segment here on Drum Channel, and my guest today is a friend and drummer/bandmate for one of the most popular pop/rock bands on the planet, The Struts. The new album “Pretty Vicious” is the band's fourth album, and each gets better and better. The band is ending the 2023 tour and already getting prepared for 2024. ...

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December 1, 2023 63 mins
Hello everyone, Billy A. and my guest today on Drum Channel is Rick Springfield’s Jorge Palacios. 
 
Jorge has been touring and recording with Springfield since 2010. 
 
The gig was originally scheduled for three days as a fill-in for drummer Roger Carter, who was going through health issues at the time and it became the start of a long music relationship with Rick and the band. 

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November 24, 2023 60 mins
Hello everyone! Billy Amendola here, and my show today is one of my “Billy’s Bubble” segments, featuring Marshall Chess, the son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Chess, a Polish/Jewish immigrant, and his brother Phil created what many describe as “America’s Greatest Blues label.” 
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November 17, 2023 40 mins

Hello everyone, Billy Amendola here with my guest today, drummer T.J. Steinwart from the upcoming independent rock band Feel. If you’re a fan of late 60s British rock drumming and California 70s blues/rock, you will dig T.J. and the band Feel. The vibe of the young band from St. Louis, Missouri, floats back to the sounds of Humble ...

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November 10, 2023 70 mins
Hello everyone, Billy Amendola here on Drum Channel with my guest, Donald Barrett.
 
Donald recently wrapped up a Las Vegas residency with superstar artist Lady GaGa on her “Piano & Jazz” show. 
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Hello everyone, Billy Amendola and I’m in Brooklyn, New York in my bubble for this special episode. My guests today are two members of the band Mammoth WVH Garrett Whitlock and Wolfgang Van Halen.

As on the previous Mammoth debut, which started as a solo project, Van Halen writes and plays all the instruments, vocals and drums. 

Band member Garrett Whitlock and leader and founder Wolfgang V...

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October 27, 2023 45 mins
Hello everyone, welcome to “Billy’s Bubble” on Drum Channel. In this segment, we talk to independent country/pop artist Jessica Lynn. 
 
Jess recently returned from a long-awaited two-month European tour that was planned to take place just as the pandemic began. 
 
We talk to Jess about the tour, her career as an independent artist/si...
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October 20, 2023 58 mins
Hello everyone! My guest today is Hooters drummer and long-time band member David Uosikkinen. 
 
David and the band recently recorded and released a new album, “Rocking & Swing,” that took the band back to their original ska/reggae sound from the early eighties...
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October 13, 2023 49 mins

Hello, it’s me, Billy Amendola, on “Billy’s Bubble here on Drum Channel. 

My guest today is music director Ray Chew. Ray was a child prodigy since the age of six, he was a first-call studio and touring musician since the mid-seventies, and he’s been on TV producing and leading house bands for over two decades. 

He’s worked with Melba Moore, Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Diana Ross, Rihanna, Carr...

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October 6, 2023 40 mins

Hello everyone, Billy Amendola here in NYC on the Drum Channel Podcast.  Today, my guest, Daxx Nielsen, who joined the superstar band Cheap Trick over a decade ago, talks with us about his experience with the legendary band, sharing a tour opening with Rod Stewart, his early years with his original band Harmony Riley with his brother Miles, and more. 

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September 29, 2023 63 mins
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Drum Channel East. The Bronx is in the house today! My guest Tony Cintron, is best known as both a percussionist and drum set player. A native New Yorker Tony has recorded and toured with many of the best in the industry playing R&B, smooth-jazz, Latin-jazz, salsa, gospel, pop and rock.
 
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September 22, 2023 54 mins

Hello everyone, welcome! I’m Billy Amendola and my guest today live in the studio at Drum Channel East is Billy Idol’s Erik Eldenius. 

Erik stopped by on his day off of touring with Idol to chat about his career, working with Billy for the past twelve years, (on a recommendation from producer/songwriter/...

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