THE BATTERY SERIES : Mick Masters / Treachery

1.What is your name and what band do you play for?
 Mick Masters    Treachery

2.Who made you want to play drums and why?
 I was walking out a high school and saw the jazz band playing a concert the germer was doing a solo that did it

3.When did you get your first kit? Tell us about it…
 It was a set of pearls 6 piece 24" kick sounded great before that I just had a floor Tom on 3 paint cans lol

  

4.Where your parents supportive of you and your loud / expensive new habit?
 In a way not too enthusiastic but they did not discourage it either.

5.What drum performance on an album is perfection to you?

 Live exit stage left rush

6.Tell us about your current kit and set up in DETAIL.

 It's a set   Tama's  
 2   24 by 18 kicks
 10/12/13 14 15 mountain Tom's
 16 18 floor Tom's 
14 by 8 snare  
10 by 5 snare 
 Hi set octobans 
 A Gibraltar powerhouse cage,
 As far as cymbal’s Zildjian 
 Master custom 14 in HH 
 2 18 rock crash 17,16 rock crash
 18” China 20” China 16” china 10,12 splash  16”
  Medium crash  3cowbells

7.If you could have a dream kit tell us about it in DETAIL

   

The  Kit I have now is my dream kit Really happy   With it. It has everything I want.

8.Name your top 5 drummers excluding Neil Peart and Mike Portnoy

Terry Bozzio
 Chad Wackerman  
Billy Cobham 
John Bonham' 
Mickey Dee

9. Do you prefer Live or Studio? 

 Live always love the connection between myself and the audience

   

10.Do drummers really get all the chicks and if so how do we convince the guitarist?  
Everyone loves a drummer!