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I love this band and their live perfomances I never miss when they come around to my local area. Full of energy and the crowd is alway in good spirits. The main reason for this blog, and I’m not afraid to admit it, is to display the wonders of our video network and the ability to sell products without alienating our viewers. If you enjoy just watching the video then fantastic. If the video has reminded you what a great outfit Gogol Bordello are and you want to purchase that one album you don’t yet own then the oppurtunity presents itselfs. So enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!

Without a doubt one of my favourite drummers from one of my favourite bands. Danny Carey is one of those drummers that is crucial to the band sound. Without him Tool would sound very different!
Carey’s first encounter with the drums began at the age of ten by joining the school band and taking private lessons on the snare drum. Two years later, Carey began to practice on a drum set In his senior year of high school in Paola, Kansas, Carey joined the high school jazz band and began to study under a new teacher specifically for jazz drumming training. Jazz would later play a huge role in his signature approach to the drum set in a rock setting. As Carey progressed through high school and later college at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, he began expanding his studies in percussion with theory into the principles of geometry, science, and metaphysics as well as delving into Sacred Geometry and certain hidden aspects of life and the occult. Carey also played jazz while attending college and got to experience the jazz scene in Kansas City.
A friend and bandmate convinced Carey to leave Kansas for Portland, Oregon, where he played briefly in various clubs before leaving for Los Angeles, California after college where he was able to perform as a studio drummer with Carole King and perform live sets with Pigmy Love Circus. He also played in Green Jellÿ as Danny Longlegs and recorded the album Cereal Killer. He would later find his way to Tool after coming to know singer Maynard James Keenan and guitarist Adam Jones and practicing with them in place of drummers the two had requested but had never shown up. Besides Tool, Carey also finds time for other projects new and old such as Pigmy Love Circus, VOLTO!, and ZAUM.

What we’re talking about here is the modern day ‘one man band’ but instead of a cymbal on his head and a marching drum on his back we have a microphone and a few effects racks. Live looping is the key here and Dub FX really knows how to put a song together in a matter of minutes.
Dub FX (real name Benjamin Stanford) is a worldwide street performer from St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. Stanford struck out solo when he moved to Europe and presently tours with his fiance Flower Fairy. Give it up…..

To find out more visit the Dub FX site.