[WM] So how big was your kit now at birthday party for someone that was turning and I, we went down to the local music store
this point? sixteen or twenty-one or something, one of and looked in papers and we saw that there
those milestone things. I remember carting all was a jam happening, some guys that were
[Peter] It was getting bigger, in fact the first the gear in, and we didn’t have road cases or getting together. So we piled the drums into
gig that we did, I remember the night because any of that stuff, and I remember thinking, “This the car and drove up to this town forty-five
it was the night that Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy cannot continue, if I’m going to start doing gigs minutes from us. It ends up, we’re looking
died, and we were setting up while listening to there’s no way I’m setting up”. George used for a bass player, but we get to this jam and
the local rock radio station when they made the to love setting up drums so much, I would George is a guitarist and I’m a drummer, and
announcement and we were kind of bummed. let him set up my kit because I was, and still there is another guitarist there and another
And I remember at that point that I actually did am, terrible at setting up a drum kit. If I play a drummer, but just one bass player. So our job
have a twenty-three-piece kit. show today for whoever, doing club shows with is to convince this bass player that he needs
Steve Taylor, I just walk in and play the house kit to come and jam with us, which we did. That
as it’s set up, I don’t change anything (Laughs). was Sean Taylor, he could read music and
I just adapt to it. I figure something cool might he was into the music that we were into, the
happen (Laughs). progressive rock. So we were going to be a
[WM] Was it double bass?
[Peter] It was huge, double kick, chimes,
octobans, the whole thing. And I’d just keep
collecting, you know, that’s all you live for. Lots
progressive rock band. A little secret I’ll tell you,
[WM] So where did you go from there?
of cymbals, little china cymbals, bells, and
all this stuff. So we did our first gig, it was a
the first song that the Newsboys ever played in
the United States of America was Rush’s “Big
[Peter] Actually the next thing we did, George
Money”. So we were going to be a progressive
photo by Caleb Cook
January 2019
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