• facebook
  • twitter
  • rss

ROB ZOMBIE Drummer: 'I Followed My Dreams And Didn't Let Anything Stop Me'

December 5, 2006

Colin Hunter of TheRecord.com reports:

When Tommy Clufetos was 13, his dad took him to see an ALICE COOPER concert in Detroit.

"Dad," the teenager hollered over the din, "I'm going to play in that band someday."

A couple of years later, when Clufetos was in high school, he bought the debut solo album by metalmeister ROB ZOMBIE — the heir-apparent to ALICE COOPER's throne as king of halloweenish shock-rock.

"My god," Tommy said to himself, listening to the disc. "I want to play in that band."

Flash forward a decade.

Clufetos is 26 now, and his resumé reads like a list of dreams-come-true: former drummer for ALICE COOPER, current pounder for ROB ZOMBIE. And the stint drumming for fellow Detroit rocker TED NUGENT was a surreal blast too.

"I've been so blessed to play for the bands I've been huge fans of," he gushed on the phone from his Los Angeles home.

"As clichéd as it sounds, I followed my dreams and didn't let anything stop me."

That attitude, rather than any specific drumming techniques, is what Clufetos hopes to impart to the would-be rock gods who attend a drumming clinic he's hosting on Friday in Waterloo.

Read the rest of the article at TheRecord.com.

Find more on
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • reddit
  • email

Comments Disclaimer And Information

BLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. To do so, click the downward arrow on the top-right corner of the Facebook comment (the arrow is invisible until you roll over it) and select the appropriate action. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. BLABBERMOUTH.NET reserves the right to "hide" comments that may be considered offensive, illegal or inappropriate and to "ban" users that violate the site's Terms Of Service. Hidden comments will still appear to the user and to the user's Facebook friends. If a new comment is published from a "banned" user or contains a blacklisted word, this comment will automatically have limited visibility (the "banned" user's comments will only be visible to the user and the user's Facebook friends).