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Duran duran roger11/11/2023 ![]() I’ve been using my Roland SPD sampling pad more and more, as well as sensors triggering sampled sounds from the studio. I’ve also combined more electronics into my setup for this tour. My endorsement with Tama goes back to 1983, so I’ve owned a few kits over the years. They have a beautiful deep resonance that I’ve never had in a kit before. My two Tama Starclassic Bubinga kits (piano black and purple sparkle) have served me very well and are definitely the best-sounding kits I’ve ever owned. Immediate pay rise for all drummers now, I say! But seriously, when you look at Charlie Watts, who looks as though he will still be rocking stadiums into his seventies, we can all look forward to a rather longer career than your average soccer player. Now that’s quite something when you consider that these guys are considered super athletes and usually retire in their early thirties. recently conducted an experiment to see how much energy a drummer burns up during a show, and he found that it’s the same amount as a premiership football player exerts over a full ninety-minute match. I sometimes compare playing a two-hour show with going fifteen rounds with Mike Tyson, but you never get the chance to knock him out!Ī scientist in the U.K. On the other hand it can be a grueling experience. On the one hand, I miss the camaraderie that’s built up between the members of the band and the crew, the familiar faces of the fans who follow us from city to city, and the feeling of perpetual motion. ![]() There’s always a bittersweet feeling when you come off the road after such a long tour. We’ve been on and off the road for around fourteen months, starting off in NYC with a ten-night stint on Broadway but eventually taking in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Rim, Europe, South America, Central America, North America (twice), and Canada. Hi there, Roger Taylor here (no, not the one from Queen, the other one!) and I’ve just come off the Duran Duran Red Carpet Massacre world tour.
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