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Hey Gavin, hope you’re well! 1) Will Harrison/Johnston be touring? 2) When playing live with The Pineapple Thief and Porcupine Tree, are there any songs where you do not use a metronome? And do you have a preference between gigs without a click versus with a click? - Salvador

Happy Birthday Gavin! Thank you for years of inspiration! And thank you for your warmth when meeting my father, girlfriend, friends, and I at the past several TPT New York shows! They say never meet your heroes, but it was an honor to meet you and the rest of this amazing band! - Salvador

Hey Gavin have you used the Tama Mirror Rod and if so did it make playing double pedal easier? - Salvador

Hey Gavin, hope all is well. 1) Any experience using larger bass drums like 24” or 26”? What were your thoughts on them if so, and did you ever use those sizes on Porcupine Tree material? 2) What made you choose the DW Drop Clutch for the Porcupine Tree Closure/Continuation tour over others? A...

Hey Gavin, wondering if you have ever experienced your 3 sets of Protean wires breaking quickly? I bought the Protean Snare used months ago, but in this month alone I completely tore through the steel and brass wires. Was practicing today and tore through two wires on the EQ set. Rewatched your...

Hello again Gavin! At 2:42 you mention the cut out in the bottom hoop that makes using the dual glide strainer even quicker. While I’ve seen other Sonor snare drums use the dual glide strainer since, do any others have the cut out like your protean snare drums? I was discussing this my student...

Thank you all for the responses! I forgot to ask about this side snare as well so any insight is appreciated

Hello, wondering if anyone knows the particular DW snare drums Josh used with A Perfect Circle and Nine Inch Nails. Thanks! I’ve looked online and he seems to mix it up.

Hello again Gavin, hope you and the rest of TPT had a great Thanksgiving! Do you always use the DW drop clutch with Porcupine Tree or are there other drop clutches you use? Do you only activate it by hand or do you also hit it with your stick? Also… I’ve been in talks with SUNY New Paltz in New...

Hello Gavin, thanks to you and the rest of TPT for an amazing night! Appreciate your answer last night on matched/traditional grip usage. What happened to your hi-hat stand during “Demons” last night? - Salvador

Hey Gavin, very hyped for my third TPT show in NYC! Regarding your bells, I remember you saying you would make them from the bells of broken crashes and I was wondering if you ever made bells from broken hi-hats or ride cymbals? If so notice any major differences in their tones compared to crash...

Hello Gavin, I notice in older videos your hi-hats were closer together when open compared to now where they look very far apart. 1) What motivated you to have the hats spread so far apart now? 2) Did you have specific measurements for distance and if so, what were/are they? I’m guessing older...

All makes sense, thanks! Did you find those accidental notes occurred when using Axis or other pedals too or is that specific to the Speed Cobras? - Salvador

Hello Gavin, hope you’re well! Few things to ask : 1) When you do a flam where both sticks hit the snare, is the softer hit of the flam still a rimshot like the louder stick? The example in my head would be “Blackest Eyes” where you flam solely on the snare a few times both in the intro and...

Hello all, my girlfriend and I are both drummers and I use speed cobra hat stand and she uses iron. We both find no matter what, at certain points in our gigs the top cymbal just collapses onto the bottom cymbal. We’re wondering if anyone else has this issue with Tama gear and are contemplating...

Hello Gavin, in this clip I notice you use the accu-strike beaters that came with the Tama Speed Cobra double pedal. I notice in more recent videos you aren’t using those. 1) How long did you use those original beaters? 2) Which ones are you currently using? 3) What made you change them? -...

Hello again Gavin, always appreciate your responses! On this video at 4:36 you seem to be clamping something to the snare stand, what is that? - Salvador

Hello Gavin, on the PT tour could you please tell me A) Diameters and depths of the 3 side toms by the 12” snare you added for songs like “Harridan” B) batter and resonant heads on those Thanks! NY and Boston were fantastic! And Sony Hall with The Pineapple Thief was too! - Salvador

Hello Gavin after getting Effortless Mastery it made me realize you play in “The Space” as Kenny Werner labels it. I wanted to ask 1) Do you still do the meditations? 2) Could you elaborate on the differences you experienced drumming after that book? Cheers Salvador

Hello Gavin, Happy Belated Birthday and a quick question regarding “Way Out of Here” Around the 5:35 mark in the studio version, after your triplet single stroke roll around the kit I notice the cymbal you hit sounds significantly fainter than the others. I’ve been wondering if that cymbal...