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“I always loved it on a deeper level. I couldn’t NOT do it.”
While Chris’ appreciation of music started at a very young age, studying album art, learning lyrics, repeating songs or parts of songs from a tape deck player, his formal training didn’t begin until his mid-teens.
Once drum lessons began, his focus was set. In the years to follow, his every decision pointed him closer to a career in music performance and writing. Fresh out of high school, Chris was found living and working in the heart of Vancouver’s busy and worldly music community.
“I had a high-level position as a builder and tuner at the best little drum company in the world, in a town where the best and brightest studios and record makers worked.”
It wasn’t long before Chris’ name was synonymous with drums, drumming, studio teching, recording and performing at the highest level.
“I was either in the studio tuning drums for guys like Bruce Fairbairn or Garth Richardson, playing with one of six bands, tracking, rehearsing, performing, or hustling…. I was busy.”
His capacity for learning was only limited by time in the day as his surroundings provided a unique canvas for which to practice and discuss, observe and integrate.
MrCrippin is the result of a 20 year career in the business. An open canvass of incredible highs and crushing lows, but most importantly, an outlet where one always existed but went relatively un-tapped.
While Chris’ appreciation of music started at a very young age, studying album art, learning lyrics, repeating songs or parts of songs from a tape deck player, his formal training didn’t begin until his mid-teens.
Once drum lessons began, his focus was set. In the years to follow, his every decision pointed him closer to a career in music performance and writing. Fresh out of high school, Chris was found living and working in the heart of Vancouver’s busy and worldly music community.
“I had a high-level position as a builder and tuner at the best little drum company in the world, in a town where the best and brightest studios and record makers worked.”
It wasn’t long before Chris’ name was synonymous with drums, drumming, studio teching, recording and performing at the highest level.
“I was either in the studio tuning drums for guys like Bruce Fairbairn or Garth Richardson, playing with one of six bands, tracking, rehearsing, performing, or hustling…. I was busy.”
His capacity for learning was only limited by time in the day as his surroundings provided a unique canvas for which to practice and discuss, observe and integrate.
MrCrippin is the result of a 20 year career in the business. An open canvass of incredible highs and crushing lows, but most importantly, an outlet where one always existed but went relatively un-tapped.
