Joe Franco - (The Good Rats - Twisted Sister - Widowmaker - Vinny Moore - The Double Bass Drumming Book

Percussion Discussion - Episode 98 - Joe Franco

We are firmly back in the legends lounge today with legendary New York drummer Joe Franco.

Join Joe and myself as we chat about the highlights of his remarkable career so far, from his early days with The Good Rats (if you havent heard this band, you must. check out Tasty and be prepared to be blown away!)

We had to talk about Joe's incredible Double Bass drumming book that is celebrating its 40th anniversary, Joe explains the concepts behind this book and talks about the accompanying & groundbreaking VHS that accompanied the book that i and im sure many other thousands of young drummers owned back in the 80's.

 Joe talks about his time with Twisted Sister having taken over the drum chair from AJ Pero and his dissapointment that the bands producer decided to use Joe's programmed drums on the album Love is for suckers... This was only intended for demo purposes, i think its testamant to Joe's talent as a drum programmer, to create such great sounding drum tracks with the limited resources available to him in the 80's.

 Anybody who knows me knows that i have a mild obsession with Premier Drums, Joe was the poster boy for Premier in the 80's and 90's along with Rod Morgenstein so we had to talk about Joe's incredible and long lasting relationship with Premier

What a way to spend 45 minutes, chatting to one of your drumming Hero's!

Joe, thank you so much - you are a gentleman.

please check out Joe's website www.beatstreetnyc.com

Many thanks also to our mutual pal John Macaluso for connecting me up with Joe