Features
Click Tips From Bittner, Luzier & Larkin
Jason Bittner, Ray Luzier, and Shannon Larkin share their personal tricks for keeping a beat in rock-steady time with a click track.
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Wengren, Larkin & Drover On Metal
Legendary drummers Mike Wengren, Shannon Larkin and Shawn Drover give us a history lesson on the evolution of a little genre called "metal."
Lessons
Shannon Larkin: “Speak” From Godsmack’s IV
Shannon Larkin tells us about his favorite tracks from Godsmack’s 1996 album IV, and focuses on his performance in the song “Speak.”
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How Shannon Larkin Got The Gig With Godsmack
Shannon Larkin was licking his wounds in 2002, following a long string of disappointing gigs. Then Sully Erna called and everything changed.
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The Tumultuous Rebirth Of Shannon Larkin
In Shannon Larkin’s 30 tumultuous years as a staple skinsman in the duck-and-cover business of heavy metal, he’s seen just about everything. He cut his major-label teeth with Wrathchild (later Souls At Zero) and Snot before getting picked up by Ugly Kid Joe in time for a taste of their zenith. As that run ended, and he was just moments from calling it quits for a career cutting hair, the golden catapult called on the phone — Sully Erna needs a drummer for Godsmack. It’s the big-big time, baby.
