BATTERY DRUM INTERVIEW : Chris Lepre aka LEF Coast / ATTACK OF THE RISING

 

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

Chris Lepre aka LEF Coast drummer for ATTACK of the RISING 

2.Who made you want to play drums and why?

I was always drawn to the drums at a young age

3.When did you get your first kit? Tell us about it…

well actually the first kit was all my moms Tupperware lol.. then got a sparkle red 4 piece drum kit from the *recycler newspaper..

4.Where your parents supportive of you and your loud / expensive new habit?

Yes actually.. my mom would take my brother and i to the jazz Club the Baked potato in Studio city.

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

Anything from Peart or Danny Carey

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

DW drums custom made 14 in bronze DW snare ,birch shells 10 ,12 14 16in toms 22in bass drum all DW hardware and pedals.  PAISTE cymbals 2002 s 14 in hi hat, 16 in 18 in 20 in crash 18 in blue china 22 in *twenty series * metal ride. 

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

I have my dream kit

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

Moon,

Mitch Mitchell,

Danny Carey,

Buddy Rich,

Simon Phillips

 or any drummer playing at the Baked Potato 

9. Do you prefer Live or Studio?

Live

10.Do drummers really get all the chicks and if so how do we convince the guitarist? good one lol