Nate Morton: Drummer Extraordinaire for The Voice
Description
This episode of Sharkey’s Treehouse takes us backstage at The Voice to meet drummer extraordinaire Nate Morton. His resume has a list of superstar performers — Cher, Madonna, Paul Stanley, Vanessa Carlton and many more. His career began after attending Berklee College of Music in Boston when he went on tour as the drummer for Faye Wong, a superstar performer from China.
Besides being drummer for The Voice band, he also has a side project with his band Fraudprophets. Their new album Poptosis will be out in June 2019 and you’ll get to hear some of those songs in this podcast; I’m honored to preview it for you here.
In this episode Nate talks about playing for The Voice, his first “big” gigs, keeping personal and professional balance and his crowning achievement — trust me when I say you will never guess what that is. He also gives us his philosophy on playing songs faithfully, note-for-note, and why he’s not being paid to play the drums.
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Links
Playground Philosophy by Dootybug
Bob Gilmore (Nate's drum tech)
Mentions
“Poptosis”
Animal (muppet)
Berklee College of Music
Whiplash (movie)
Henson Studios
SIR
Faye Wong
All for One (band)
Billie Myers
Sonny Rollins
Jack Sawyers (producer, Tale of the Fox)
Eric Carr
KISS
Bill Aucoin
Billy Idol
Paul Stanley (KISS, Live to Win solo tour)
Zoltan Chaney
Reggie Hamilton - “Mr. The Legend”





