LC interviews Clutch drummer Jean-Paul Gaster.

Subjects discussed:

– Record Store Days Exclusives: Obelisk Vinyl Box Set, Weathermaker Series
– COVID and touring
– Minotaurs
– Doom Saloon live streams + plans for next one
– Songwriting + How Set Lists are picked
– Wookies
– Spotify, music industry
– Mandolins
– Next Clutch Album

Music snippets featured:

DC Sound Attack
Willie Nelson
X-Ray Vision
In Walks Barbarella

More LC Clutch Worship:

Concert Review 2018 – Boulder: www.decibelgeek.com/clutch-concert-review-2018/

Concert Review 2016 – Denver: www.decibelgeek.com/clutch-concert-review-2016/

ABOUT JEAN-PAUL GASTER (Wiki)

Jean-Paul Gaster learned to play drums by playing along to 1960s and 1970s heavy rock bands like Jimi Hendrix, Cream, ZZ Top and Black Sabbath. Washington D.C’s Go-go music and in particular drummers such as Ju Ju House, Brandon Finley and Ricky Wellman were early influences as well. He is one of many students who studied with legendary Washington D.C drummer and educator Walter Salb. Some favorite drummers of Gaster are jazz drummers Elvin Jones and Jack DeJohnette, Bad Brains drummer Earl Hudson and New Orleans drummer Johnny Vidacovich.

Clutch
Jean-Paul, Neil Fallon, Dan Maines and Tim Sult formed Clutch in 1991. After releasing the Pitchfork 7″ the band embarked on its first U.S tour in the summer of 1992. Since then the band has released 12 studio albums and toured extensively through North America, Europe, UK and Australia. The band continues to be an important fixture on today’s hard rock scene.