Working Drummer

390 - Clint de Ganon: Playing with Paul Shaffer, The Changing World of Broadway, "A Groove is an Agreement"


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To date, Clint has played on over 1,000 recording sessions and over 75 tours with artists including The Blues Brothers Band, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chuck Loeb, Art Garfunkel, The New York Voices, Mitch Forman, Cornell Dupree, and Edgar Winter. On television, Clint has appeared with the Saturday Night Live Band, and has performed with various artists on David Letterman, MTV, Bravo, Good Morning America, & The Today Show. He also played on the soundtrack for Stephen Spielberg's West Side Story.

For seven years, Clint played drums with Hiram Bullock's band, a power trio that featured the singing and playing of Hiram, legendary bassist Will Lee. The band made 5 recordings, and toured no less than 25 times. On Broadway, Clint has played for 13 shows, creating the drum books for four of them, including the Grammy Award winning Hairspray.

In this episode, Clint talks about:

  • The romanticization of session work
  • Creating a career out of patchwork, and the fragmentation of the record industry
  • How theatre work is a fusion of a live approach with a studio approach
  • Getting experience in a given genre on "regular gigs" before playing that genre as part of a musical
  • Playing with Paul Shaffer, and the unique position of playing drums with a symphony orchestra
  • ...more
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