{"id":23186,"date":"2020-04-27T08:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/?p=23186"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:22:51","slug":"steve-smith-interview-drumeo-gab-podcast-164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/steve-smith-interview-drumeo-gab-podcast-164\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smith: Evolution Is Vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/14112755\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><em>\u201cI allow it to be what it is.\u201d<\/em><\/h5>\n<p>Steve Smith is a treasure to drumming culture. He was inducted into the \u201cRock and Roll Hall of Fame\u201d and he\u2019s been awarded many times over in the industry, including the Modern Drummer readers poll where he was voted \u201cBest All-Around Drummer\u201d five years in a row. The list goes on and on and you will always find him on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/the-top-100-drummers-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top 100 drummers of all time<\/a> lists as well. There is no question that Steve Smith is one of the finest drummers in history.<\/p>\n<p>He is probably best known to most people as the drummer for Journey. He recorded six albums, including Journey\u2019s most popular album \u201cEscape\u201d, during his tenure with them. However, regardless of his massive success with Journey, Steve is a jazz drummer at heart. He has been the bandleader of his group Vital Information since the early seventies and of course, in between, has been a sideman for artists such as Jean-Luc Ponty, Steps Ahead, Dweezil Zappa, Bryan Adams, Savage Garden and many others.<\/p>\n<p>What I find personally fascinating about Steve is his evolution as a musician. When I watch performances from the \u201970s and \u201980s, I hear a completely different Steve Smith than what he is today. With his introduction to Carnatic music by the great Zakir Hussain, Steve\u2019s path went far in that direction. If you look at his path of development, he has had many deep periods of growth. In my opinion, I can\u2019t think of many drummers who have mastered as many disciplines within drumming as Steve has.<\/p>\n<p>I would imagine that Steve will always be on a path of discovery and refinement with music and drumming. Even quite recently, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has stated that he has gone back to basics, practicing slowly. Even after over 60 years of playing the drums, Steve is still going back to basics to continue improving and evolving and that is truly inspiring.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>In this episode:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You will hear about&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve\u2019s headaches with being a bandleader<\/li>\n<li>How Steve allows musicians\u2019 true selves to alter the delivery of his music<\/li>\n<li>The fascinating story of how Steve was introduced to Carnatic and Hindustani music<\/li>\n<li>Steve\u2019s approach to learning new music quickly<\/li>\n<li>Steve\u2019s drum art<\/li>\n<li>Steve&#8217;s thoughts on pursuing our creative passions<\/li>\n<li>Steve\u2019s experience adapting and transitioning to learning how to play with a click<\/li>\n<li>The value of seeing live music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Why you should listen:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Well, an interview with Steve Smith is not something to pass on. He has so much knowledge that is backed up by profound levels of experience. He is someone we should be listening to and learning from. Besides that, his story about how he learned Konnakol and his time with Zakir is truly fascinating stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Steve:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stevesmithdrums\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vitalinformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevesmithdrums\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vitalinformation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Drumeo Gab:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/drumeogab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drumeogabpodcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UClVNG62FcO82sRtmAzmoNXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Ronn Dunnett<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Smith, arguably one of the top drummers of all time, talks about going back to basics and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":23187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570,4019,4039,1175],"tags":[986,1608,990,1609],"class_list":["post-23186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drumeo-gab","category-drummers","category-interviews","category-podcasts","tag-drum-podcast","tag-drumeo-gab-podcast","tag-drumming-podcast","tag-seamus-evely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23186"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23233,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions\/23233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drumeo.com\/beat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}