TheBesTDrummerInTheWorld.com

Can you believe I had the nerve to put up a website where I proclaimed myself the best drummer in the world?

Originally I put up the site to get gigs. I was going to LA where I would always run into guys (or girls) looking for a drummer and thought it was a pain in the ass to carry around a bag of CD’s of stuff I’ve done.

Exhibit A. Me in Anita

Believe it or not, I dont really like to brag or talk about how awesome I think I am. But, I play with passion and people dig my rock.  ” Dude, you’re a maniac…” say “the people”

So I thought about putting up a website about who I’ve played with and what I’ve done and this action made me look at what I really think about music. What the hell was I going to say. “I’m totally awesome!!!” Lame.
Exhibit B Me in Not Rebecca.
But when I do play, I go for broke. I want to be the best. And I dont really think about Obamas Health Care Package or really anything else when I’m playing. So to that degree, the “world” is the environment you’re in right now.

So I had the idea if someone is watching me and I capture their attention fully, and if they think I’m great, and if they’re not thinking of anyone else, by default I’m the best drummer in that persons world.

So what the hell. Then nobody else had done it. So I did it.

Exhibit C. Me in Bad Oskar, with hair at Cobo Hall In Detroit.
Then the site started getting a bunch of traffic, because the domain name is cool. People posted death threats on my message board. The game was on.

Because the site got traffic, I started calling up labels, and managers and stuff and doing interviews of drummers from bands that I worship.

And then I started a blog.

So I’m going to post interviews and opinions and ideas and world domination programs and every random thought I have about anything even remotely related to drums and drumming. And you can agree or disagree or agree to disagree or invade my personal space or send hate mail or death threats or talk shit or whatever you want. I think I wont really want to stop people from giving their opinions.

If I find something offensive, I reserve thr right to block it, if I can figure out how, but it’d have to be pretty bad, I think because I like free speach a lot.
Exhibit D. Me With Textbook, produced by John Agnello (The Hold Steady, Sonic Youth)
Also, I swear, but I’ll try not to too much.
Also,
When you play drums, you worship Led Zeppelin and John Bonham.

For me, I never had the urge to play in a “cover band”. I always wanted the golden ring and thought the way to accomplish that was to get into an original band and write big hits, “get signed” make video, add water, be huge.

I had my share of success and made music I’m proud of. So its a bit ironic for me to have my biggest success in a “cover band”

I got lucky enough to hook up with some like minded guys (meaning guys who have always made their own original music) and we have this juggernaught called Led Zeppelin 2.

The Best Drummer In The World.com…….Led Zeppelin 2, at least i’m not overly confident.

The band sells out House of Blues size venues around the country. We are booked by Flower Booking. They book hip bands, so we apparently are.

For me as a drummer, there is no greater challange and no greater joy than to play Zeppelin. Dave Grohl was dying to play on the Zeppelin reunion. This is a video of us doing Moby Dick from a couple of years ago at La Zona Rosa in Austin Tx. Its a decent representation my approach to playing Bohnam.

Here’s what the critics say:
Jim DeRogatis of Spin Magazine and Chicago Sun-Times writes”… Bruce Lamont, Paul Kamp (of Yakuza and Busker Soundcheck fame, respectively) and the killer rhythm section of Ian Lee … bill themselves as Zep2, and they do as good a Zep as Zep ever did back in the day.”

I recently did an interview with Asylum magazine on the ins and outs of the Bonham gig.
Here’s a link to the interview

http://www.asylum.com/2010/02/02/ian-lee-how-to-be-drummer-john-bonham-led-zeppelin-2/