Drummers on Drumming Big Fat Five: Nick Adams' (Aly & Aj / Take That) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Nick Adams … a Los Angeles-based touring and recording drummer whose passion for music and live performance has led him to work with an array of well-known artists such as Rivers Cuomo,Noah Cyrus, Fifth Harmony, Aly & Aj, Liz Phair, and Take That among others. I am obsessed with his Instagram; he gets such amazing sounds and is a nerd when it comes to engineering himself out of his own studio. If you want to watch a drummer who plays deceivingly hard parts with absolute conviction….please go check him out. I'm stoked to introduce a bunch of you to Nick! So please enjoy the 5 records that helped shape Nick Adams into the drummer he is today. Cheers!
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NICK'S BIG FAT FIVE:
Album - Steve Miller Band: Greatest Hits 1974-78
Artist - Steve Miller Band
Release Year - 1974-78
Key Track(s) - Take The Money And Run, Swingtown
Drummer - Gary Mallaber
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Album - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
Artist - Blink 182
Release Year - 2001
Key Track(s) - Story of a Lonely Guy
Drummer - Travis Barker
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Album - Lateralus
Artist - Tool
Release Year - 2001
Key Track(s) - The Grudge, Ticks & Leeches
Drummer - Danny Carey
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Album - Sawdust
Artist - The Killers
Release Year - 2007
Key Track(s) - Sam's Town
Drummer - Ronnie Vannucci Jr.
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Album - Hotel California
Artist - The Eagles
Release Year - 1976
Key Track(s) - Life in the Fast Lane
Drummer - Don Henley
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