I remember thinking at the time, you've met somebody really great and he wants to be in your life and wants you to be in his life.

And if you keep doing drugs and fucking up, you're going to fuck this up. This is Joe Wong.

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

I want to play something for you.

Is your fragility wanting so bad to be because you're leading up to me to do the crossing. Friend of sincerity making a mockery. You're hearing You're hearing

You're hearing my guest

Fearing my guest

On the drum Moffitt on drums.

Moffat cut his teeth in the DC punk scene and played with many of the most inventive

bands to emerge during the 80s and 90s including government issue, wool, dove, and

Burning Airlines. His signature style balances jagged angular rhythmic invention with arena rock bombast.

In recent years, Moffat has become a respected drum tech and currently works for Kelly Clarkson drummer, Lester Estelle.

Last month, Peter's band's second letter released its debut album, and he's also back in the studio recording a new album with his former bandmate

come producer Jay Robbins. I spoke to Peter in Los Angeles.

And now my conversation with Peter Moffat.

My mom, when she worked, she was a, like, mechanical artist. So she used to work for government contractors.

You know, she was like doing maps and stuff like that.

And I seem to remember she was from Austria.

My dad met her during the war. And at some point, she was working for some company, and we used to have this map in our kitchen. It was a city map of Vienna, and it was all drawn by hand. And she was one of the people who had worked on it.

And it, you know, it's almost as big as this table, like the length of it.

And my dad was a technical writer for Applied Physics Laboratory, which was part of Johns Hopkins University.

But my dad also played piano, and he was an AFM member

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