Jim Chapin........... and Joe Porcaro
my teachers!
Carmine Appice and Kenny Aronoff
Bootsy Collins and Glenn Hughes
Mickey Hart and Tris Imboden (Chicago's drummer)
Gene Simmons and Tommy Lee
Will Calhoun and Doug Wimbish of Living Colour...... Ted Shredd (HLK goes to Las Vegas)
Sheila E. and her dad Pete Escobedo
Greg Bissonette and Billy Sheehan
Dweezil Zappa and Neal Schon
Jimmy Haslip
(The Tommy Bolin Band)
VIC FIRTH...
the man who makes my drumsticks, the Mike Reininger 5B
