087: Todd Trainer (Shellac, Brick Layer Cake)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of the past three decades, Todd Trainer has distinguished himself as one of his generation’s most unique rock drummers. Both visceral and sophisticated, he executes brilliantly composed beats with an instantly identifiable loping groove. He tells Joe about growing up in Minnesota; working in the school lunch line as a teenager; creating music with Steve Albini and Bob Weston in Shellac; his time working for a hair products company; and his current career as a drum instructor.

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0:00.0	The Trap Set will always be available for free, but we rely on donations from our listeners.
0:05.4	Please visit our website at thetrapset.net and click Donate.
0:09.2	Subscribe to our show on iTunes, and if you enjoy what you hear, give us a review. This is Joe Wong.
0:27.6	Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.
0:32.6	I want to play something for you. You're hearing
0:40.3	compliant. You're Hearing Compliant by Shalak, featuring my guest Todd Traynor on drums.
1:03.0	Formed in 1992, Shalak records and tours on its own timetable, resulting in a consistently
1:10.0	excellent body of work and a devoted following.
1:13.6	Some have classified trainer's style as primal, perhaps because of the visceral energy he emits.
1:20.6	But in a band that thrives on minimalism, Todd's every note feels deliberate and personal.
1:26.6	He delivers brilliantly composed parts with a uniquely elegant lope.
1:32.7	Aside from Shalak, Todd has played drums in the band's Breaking Circus and Rifle Sport.
1:38.9	He's also released three albums as Brick Layer Cake,
1:42.9	his solo project for which he plays all the
1:45.1	instruments over the past year and a half he's also begun teaching drum lessons
1:50.7	I spoke to Todd last year in his hometown Minneapolis stove off compliant.
2:09.4	And now our conversation with Todd Traynor. My father was, he's a bit of a smooth talker and a very charming gentleman.
2:26.2	So a salesman?
2:27.2	A salesman.
2:28.4	Yeah, they brought him out of the truck and into the world of sales, where he was just always a natural but a natural in a
2:38.5	in a very genuine and sincere fashion not in a not in a salesman right not in that fashion and he was
2:49.2	well that's the most effective salesman.
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