Gibraltar artist Kevin Ricard’s recent performance at the White House will air tonight, February 11th on PBS. This was part of “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement.” The program was the Black History Month event in Michelle Obama’s continuing music series at the White House.
Also see New York Times coverage. (top photo credit Luke Sharrett, New York Times)
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Gibralto Man, the new Frontman for Gibraltar Hardware, was very popular at the Gibraltar booth at the 2010 NAMM Show. Some of the biggest names in percussion stopped by to hang with Gibralto Man – including: Mark Schulman, Jonathan Moffett, Gregg Potter, Bryan Hitt, Derek Kerswill, Clayton Cameron and David Lauser.
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Frank Zummo with Gibraltar Man
Hailing from Los Angeles, Street Drum Corps who is Bobby Alt, Adam Alt and Frank Zummo, have been called “Soo good” by the New York Post, declared “A rapturous band of misfit drummers” by the Los Angeles Weekly and were featured in Alternative Press Magazine’s “Most Anticipated Albums of 2010” issue. The band’s upcoming album produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, All American Rejects) boasts an eclectic mix of the band’s trademark drumming on found objects and fully realized rock/pop songs with Bobby Alt on vocals.
Street Drum Corps has performed on the Projekt Revolution, Vans Warped and Taste of Chaos Tours, and played with Linkin Park, The Used, Motley Crue, Chris Cornell and Matisyahu, among others.
Street Drum Corps and 30 Seconds To Mars are longtime friends and collaborators. Bobby, Adam and Frank performed alongside 30 Seconds To Mars on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien in December, Bobby and Adam made cameos in “The Ride” – a short film inspired by Thirty Seconds To Mars’ track “Kings & Queens,” Frank and Bobby are each on special edition covers of This Is War and 30 Seconds To Mars drummer Shannon Leto guests on Street Drum Corps’ album. Catch them together on the road!
For touring information, please go to Street Drum Corps website.
Chicago rock duo Blackbox which is Damon Ranger, and Gregg Potter has been nominated for an EMMY from the National Academy of Television, Arts, and Sciences. The nomination is in the performance category for Blackbox’s performance of the Cheap Trick classics “He’s a Whore,” and “Surrender.” Also nominated is Legendary Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen who joined the duo onstage for their performance which aired on CBS March 27th, 2009. 2009 has been an amazing year for Blackbox, along with the nomination they were handpicked to tour the midwest on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour on the Kevin Says Stage, handpicked to kick off Riot Fest, played two nights at Summerfest (the world’s largest out door music festival), and have shared the stage with Eagles of Death Metal, The White Tie Affair, Lupe Fiasco, Ratt, Butthole Surfers, Billy Squier, and more all in the past 10 months.
Blackbox just released their cd “Never Gonna Give” whichfeatures the song “D.U.D.E.” which was co-written with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.
Blackbox is honored to share this nomination with one of their hero’s and is looking forward to making the rest of this year just as amazing. The EMMY ceremony takes place November 7th at the Park West in Chicago. For more information please contact Blackbox directly at 847.226.8758 or Rocksuperstar@aol.com
Gregg is pictured with the following hardware:
- 1pc 9608 Throne round seat style
- 1pc 9606 Ultra Adjust snare stand
- 1pc 9607ML Moveable leg base Hi Hat stand with liquid drive
- 1pc 9613DP Dual platform tom stand with cymbal boom mount
- 5pc 9609BT Cymbal boom stands with brake style tilters – one boom stand with tom mount attachment
Noisecreep.com has a post by Frank Zummo reporting that he was thrilled to fill in for Tommy Lee during Crüe Fest 2 in August. Lee was recovering from a hand injury and was unable to play.
I was thrilled and freaking! We got to work immediately with me taking copious notes from ‘Coach Lee.’ Since the next day was an off-day for the band, I holed up in my Virginia Beach hotel room with the set list and music to prepare to play the entire ‘Dr. Feelgood’ album and other seminal hits. Once the curtain dropped, exposing the stage, we were off! It was like being in a surreal dream and I played my heart out, loving every second of it.
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