Interview with Porcupine Tree Drummer Gavin Harrison & David Frangioni

[@Niki_SoS]

Gavin is such a motivation fuel for drummers! When there has been points in my drumming career when I have been feeling not so inspired towards playing and overall in music I have watched Gavin play or do interviews and that does it for me. Such a phenomenal and inspiring human being.

[@eyelovelil]

Great interview, loved every minute of it. Gavin should do TED Talks on drumming. I haven’t played drums in years & listening to him is so inspiring, I have an urge to kick it on a kit. Thanks 🙏for interviewing him

[@jefffan171]

Now at 37:00 hearing about Simon Phillips and Gavin's solos. Gavin (for me) was a magical marriage of Simon and Jeff Porcaro in one player. Love his playing

[@williamkjwilliamkj1815]

Gavin Harrison is always a joy to listen to. One of my favorites. He is also a great storyteller btw. RIP Bill Rieflin and Neil Peart. Their work will never be forgotten.

[@jojogpt]

So nice to hear Gavin talk about Renaissance. Never knew this story.

[@luis_robledo_richards]

Great interview, love to hear Gavin speaking about his projects, past and present, he’s an inspiring guy. Btw, Steven Wilson and Bruce Soord don’t sound similar, at all 😳

[@Audioholics]

Strange, they do sound similar to me and I've heard others say the same.

[@sunbear5]

Excellent interview and great insights by Gavin. What an immense talent I’ve fortunately seen him play live nearly 10 times

[@garanceadrosehn9691]

Excellent interview. Thanks to everyone who set this up!

[@TheoNicolakis]

Gavin’s drum intro was fantastic.

[@5Antvin]

Thanks for having this interview with Gavin - Coincidentally , stereo and drumming are and have always been two passions of mine --

[@eliothillis535]

“That is a hard intro to beat” Immediately self owns with massive echo 😂😂

[@davebudd3463]

Excellent interview. Thanks Gene and David ! I too, have been following Gavin's travels since the "In Absentia" days. The thing that caught my ear about his technique were all the 1/64 fill's added between beats. His teaming up with Antoine Fafard for "Chemical Reactions" is an album I continually turn to as of late. Love his style.

[@adamjj85]

Love that you got Gavin! Great interview!

[@jazzhole8208]

I would luv to get that "Gavin Drum Solo" DVD 🙌

[@aussie_philosopher8079]

How the hell did you guys hook up gavin harrison, that's epic. I go to great lengths to but the Porcupine tree high resolution surround sound albums, sometimes very hard to find in australia. I have them all and love it. With the emergence of atmos surround sound, I try get people in at my house for a listening session to try inspire a new generation of surround sound enthusiasts to keep it going strong and it always blows people away .

[@nikosidis]

I have seen Porcupine 3 times in Oslo. One of them was in a festival, outside. First 2 concerts was inside a concert hall called Spectrum that got the best acoustics in Oslo. I thought it would be a let down regarding SQ in a concert outside but I was wrong. I also seen Gavin with King Crimson. What at drummer and what nice guy he is! Thanks for the interview.

[@MuriloRenkse]

I love this guy, his work in Pineapple Thief is AMAZING. Thank you Richard for bring this guy to the light.

[@bertadellasala3258]

Richard?? Haha

[@MuriloRenkse]

​@@bertadellasala3258 Yes, in Porcupine Tree - In Absentia documentary, Richard Barbieri sayid he was responsable to bring him to the band. He sayid too: "now he's a wordwide famous drummer"

[@bertadellasala3258]

@@MuriloRenkse Ohh I misinterpreted that lmao. Thought you were calling Gene Richard

[@intrepiddrums]

It was fantastic to hear Gavin talk about Neil, very cool stories!

[@igshaman]

30 best Gavin Harrison's solo drum improvisations from live King Crimson concerts? Given that it was all recorded in 4 or 8k video and 96 or 192k sound over lots of channels, this can be made into a very unique at-home musical experience. Where do I sign a petition to make this happen? :-)

[@christophermuller4876]

The Pineapple Thief IS coming to Florida! I have tickets for The Plaza live in Orlando on April 29!! (Sorry to hear that you feel you didn't do well in Florida with Porcupine Tree - I saw 3/4 shows here and they were packed and enthusiastic! You could have booked better venues down here and they would have been filled!)

[@progrock3603]

I saw PT in Miami. The Fillmore, Jackie Gleason. The place was pretty packed. Best show to date!

[@nexdrums]

Harrison is an amazing guy! srsly . Excellent interview guys

[@hfhifi6878]

I'm in the audio biz. Nearly everyone my age are huge King Crimson fans.

[@hfhifi6878]

I also used to call on David representing brands for his Custom Install company

[@Deelman222]

Loved it! Thank you

[@user-eu3mn6ss5l]

The question about Wes was a good one - it was a little awkward. John Wesley seemed pretty bummed to not be included.

[@spiderbass65]

I’m oddly not a huge fan of surround sound. Noises coming from all directions doesn’t enhance the music. That’s a me problem. Love the interview, though, Gavin is awesome and great conversation!

[@mesfeld]

Nicely done! You hit a wide range of info and stories from Gavin. That said, I'm amazed and disappointed you didn't ask who they're using for a bass player on the album and upcoming tour!

[@Audioholics]

Steven Wilson is credited as playing bass on the new album. I did ask Gavin off session about the touring band but he wasn't sure if John Wesley would be back or who would be the replacement basist.

[@mesfeld]

@@Audioholics Thanks Gene!

[@eliothillis535]

I love this band.

[@tl9756]

...You had me at MORE NEW P-Tree!!

[@francescolongo1664]

GAV 🖤

[@CannedBeats]

The Sky Moves Sideways is one of the best albums from Porcupine Tree

[@seethroughhead505]

Nice shot of Ant and Dec in the thumbnail.

[@BblastedD]

Thanks for this.

[@DigitalDonAV]

Awesome!

[@Guls574]

Gavin Harrison is really articulate and interesting, shame about the interviewer who clearly hasn't prep'd at all - gets something wrong pretty much every time he opens his mouth lol...

[@Audioholics]

Yea what a jerk face the interviewer is. LOL

[@anotherDnightmare]

Mispronounces names. Gets dates wrong. Confuses magazines. Asks questions Gavin had answered 15 years ago. There was zero prep. Still... always good to listen to Gav.

[@Audioholics]

@@anotherDnightmare Want some cheese with your whine? So I don't remember tour dates, sue me. I asked Gavin questions he NEVER gets asked elsewhere and the more obvious ones were meant as an introduction of Gavin to our home theater centric audience. You can thank Audioholics for introducing Dolby Atmos to Steven Wilson who didn't even know what the technology was when I interviewed him during his Hand Cannot Erase album. Now, SW and PT are mixing in Atmos.

[@AntonyRG1]

I've heard a rumour that Lee and Lifeson have joined PT. This will be the first time we'll see PT in big arena venues with a huge light show etc. Two nights at each venue (1st night - An Evening of Rush Music and More featuring Lee, Lifeson, and Harrison + guests. 2nd night - full PT show featuring Wilson, Barbieri, Harrison, Lee, and LIfeson).

[@robinjohnson6301]

Lol if that happened I think I would die of joy. Seems somewhat unlikely though. Where did you hear that rumour?

[@blackesteyes1133]

Thats got to be bollocks, surely?.......🤔

[@gorgenhaggblad6727]

Would be fantastic but will not happen.

[@user-eu3mn6ss5l]

No chance, sadly

[@paulspence9944]

Gavin is gracious and open and really interesting. Is it just me or do other people find Gene a little annoying by his apparent absence of knowledge and understanding of who he is speaking to and Gavin's background?

[@Audioholics]

Yea that Gene dude is a little annoying but it's pretty cool he got to interview the great Gavin Harrison :)

[@Adream-lf3mw]

I'm afraid to watch, can someone tell me if Scott Baio's background bio is going to have the full page Monster Cable ad ("The Monster in my music!") like we saw at the 7:44 mark of his last video on Audioholics about 2 weeks ago?

[@brianbjur4796]

19:07 haven’t heard about the Brady Bunch dad in awhile

[@alppegemen]

9:05 great.. hahah :D

[@ghostrecon3214]

Awesome content! Gene you seem to like Prog which is my preferred genre, have you come across Ayreon yet?

[@Audioholics]

No I haven't listened to Ayreon much yet but will check them out. thanks.

[@michaelsokolowski7143]

Pineapple Thief: 4/29 Orlando Florida

[@blackesteyes1133]

Saw them in Manchester late last year, safe to say Florida is in for a treat.

[@yes_head]

KC pioneered a brand of music called "math rock". Now you know why.

[@gregdaniel8404]

Steve Gadd and Jeff Porcaro, sir. Take care with drumming icons' proper names.

[@Audioholics]

Nerves while meeting a drum hero of mine for the first time.

[@FireMunki63]

Hmm pretty sure Halo is not on In Absentia Modern Drummer its on Deadwing. Lol

[@Audioholics]

Whatever. Trying to recall stuff like that in the heat if an interview with one if your hero's isn't so easy.

[@Cassella1]

Jeff Porco?

[@Audioholics]

Jeff Porcaro. I gaffed :(

[@whaleguy]

Never let Gavin actually talk about how he recorded his drums. Cut him off when he was talking about what he *used* to use earlier.

[@Audioholics]

There were problems with feedback in this broadcast since Frangioni had YT playing in the background. I cut those parts so you didn't have to pain through hearing them.

[@whaleguy]

@@Audioholics No, what actually happened was Gavin was about to answer and Frangioni interrupted him before he could finish, then the conversation wandered and didn't return to the topic.

[@Audioholics]

@@whaleguy oh OK. Glad it wasn't me that interrupted Gavin. 😞

[@whaleguy]

@@Audioholics It's ok. The interview still had plenty of great information, but I was just miffed that a few things like this got lost because Gavin was interrupted.

[@kuttycrew]

😂