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Welcome to the Trapset, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you.

You're hearing Chinese tall, yeah, and bulletproof. You're hearing Chinese Fork Ty by Jawbox, featuring my guest, Zach Baroqueus on drums. Zach joined Jawbox in 1992, bringing the legendary Washington DC band's sound into focus, just as they made the leap to a major label.

He possesses the rare ability to make rhythmically complex beats feel organic and urgent.

While many drummers aim to serve the song, Zach's unique drumming is inseparable from the song.

Drawbox disbanded in 1997 and Zach moved to New York City.

Although he stopped pursuing drumming as a profession,

he has continued to perform and record with excellent groups such as the Up On In and Bells.

I spoke to him recently while he was vacationing in Los Angeles.

And now our conversation with Zach Baroc's.

My father was a clinical psychologist and a professor at the University of Rochester.

And then later we moved to Fairfax, Virginia, outside of D.C.

Yeah. And my mother was a outside of D.C. Yeah.

And my mother was a public school teacher in Rochester.

When did you move?

We moved, my brother and my father and I moved in 1981, and then I moved back to Rochester in 1983.

Okay.

I went to high school up there.

So your parents split up and you moved and then you moved back with your mom?

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