Drum lesson: Wilco's Glenn Kotche on found sounds
Drum aficionados, this is a good month to be in Los Angeles. This Saturday, Guitar Center will stage its annual "Drum Off" finals at Club Nokia, with a host of session-aces and band members performing mini rhythmic flights of fancy.Some heavy hitters will be on hand as judges, including Peter Criss from Kiss and the Mars Volta's Dave Elitch, while drummers including Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa), Mike Portnoy (Avenged Sevenfold), Dennis Chambers (Santana), Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion) and Jabo Starks (James Brown) are scheduled to play short sets with other musicians.
But drum geeks have another reason to rejoice: Wilco's string of shows in Los Angeles. The Chicago band plays the Palladium Jan. 24, the Wiltern Jan 25 and the Los Angeles Theatre Jan. 27, which means their stellar drummer Glenn Kotche will be there too. The former drum teacher -- himself once a classical percussion student at the University of Kentucky -- has a wide-open view of the instrument. "When I am playing solo, there’s a mission. I am out to prove that this can be music," he said.
With so much drum expertise on the horizon, Pop & Hiss thought it a fine time to dedicate a post to the craft-- or at least to Kotche and his wildly inventive approach to the instrument. It follows yesterday's talk with Wilco leader Jeff Tweedy.
In Kotche's solo atmospheric work with On Fillmore, the drum set becomes an orchestra, bits and pieces of which have been explored throughout Kotche's decade-plus with Wilco, be it the aggressive, double-timed rock of "Art of Almost," the spacious, redemptive groove of "i Am Trying to Break Your Heart," or the found sounds, shuffling toys and back massagers that permeate parts of new album "The Whole Love."
Explain your approach to the instrument. "I think there’s a future in percussion. It’s been codified. ‘This is what it is. This is what its role is.’ I see percussion as a wide-open world. It’s like the last frontier in musical instruments, especially in classical music. It encompasses everything that isn’t a string or a wind instrument. It’s kind of limitless. So when I play solo, or any of the compositions I do, I’m trying to assert that this is an instrument capable of making music. I try not to make it too heady and I try not to make it too low-brow, like the traditional drum solo is the traditional time for the bathroom break. I try to make music.
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In Kotche's solo atmospheric work with On Fillmore, the drum set becomes an orchestra, bits and pieces of which have been explored throughout Kotche's decade-plus with Wilco, be it the aggressive, double-timed rock of "Art of Almost," the spacious,
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