1.What
is your name and what band do you play for?
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My name is Jari S. Holopainen, and I play in the Death Metal band
Chronicle
2.Who
made you want to play drums and why?
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I started taking drums lessons when I was about 8 years old. Back
then I was inspired by Lars Ulrich of Metallica and Tré Cool from
Green Day. Those two bands where my first exposure to what in my head
was "heavy music" back then. I was impressed by the speed
and the power, and wanted to be able to play that stuff myself.
3.When
did you get your first kit? Tell us about it…
4.Were
your parents supportive of you and your loud / expensive new habit?
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Hell to the fucking yeah they where! They were so awesome about it!
Once I finally got them to allow me to buy a drum kit, their attitude
was like "now you spent so much money on that, you better get
good at it". They were always supportive about letting me play,
and they didn't mind the noise even though I was playing in my own
room on the first floor of our house in the suburbs. They got even
more hyped about the whole thing, when I started playing in bands,
and started bringing my bandmates over to the house to practice. I
think they thought it was just as awesome as I thought it was.
5.What
drum performance on an album is perfection to you?
It's a tossup between two albums for me. First is Janne Jaloma on Bloodshot Dawn's "Demons", and second Mario Duplantier on Gojira's "The Way of All Flesh".
Of course it's not just the drums alone on those albums that make them perfect to me, but also their interplay with the other instruments.
6.Tell
us about your current kit and set up in DETAIL.
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It is a Pearl kit. I got four rack toms and two floor toms, from
10"-16". My two kick drums are 22", and my snare drum
is 14". I'm currently using the Evans clear drumheads on
everything, except for the snare which has a coated head.
I am using 10 cymbals in total. Two hi-hats, two rides, two crashes, two splashes, and two chinas.
I am using 10 cymbals in total. Two hi-hats, two rides, two crashes, two splashes, and two chinas.
Depending
on the available live setup, I jump between playing with my two Tama
Iron Cobra Powerglide single pedals, or my Pearl P-932 double pedal.
7.
If you could have a dream kit tell us about it in DETAIL.
8.Name
your top 5 drummers excluding Neil Peart and Mike Portnoy
-In
no particular order: Mario Duplantier, Phil Dubois-Coyne, Oli
Beaudoin, Alan Cassidy, Stef Broks.
9.
Do you prefer Live or Studio?
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It's hard to decide. Each one has their own fear factor, but also
brings possibilities with it. The studio gives time to go deep into
the details of the compositions, but at the concerts you live in the
moment, seized by the adrenaline, only to make noise!
10.
Do drummers really get all the chicks and if so how do we convince
the guitarist?
You wish you did! But you will soon realize that as a drummer, you will be hidden away, behind a drumkit at the back of the stage, every time you play live for the rest of your career. The people will never know what you look like, and you will never make it into any of the live photos either. The life of the drummer is one of anonymity. It's hard to be the backbone of the band, but someone's got to do it. haha. ;P
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