Talk about like, like, oh, I'm moving to LA.

Like, things are looking great.

And the band's doing well.

And, like, this is so rad.

From, like, the kid that was, like, sitting in his room

and the burbs, like, you know, hoping to maybe play in a band one day.

It's, like, somehow I'm, like, in Los Angeles now in a touring band.

And, you know, and then it was just like bloop this this is

this is Joe Wong

where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you. The You're hearing The Tundra by Pelican, featuring my guest Larry Herwig on drums.

Pelican formed in Chicago in 2001, and Larry's commanding presence compels and defines the band's dense long-form

compositions aside from his work in Pelican Larry also plays an interceptor and has a

second career as a real estate agent I spoke to him in downtown Los Angeles

and now my conversation with Larry Herwig.

My first band was called Tusk.

It was kind of like a hardcore, grindcore band with guys from Pelican. And we played a lot of

our early shows at the Fireside Bowl. And we're just friendly with Brian. You know, and he was booking

shows even out in the suburbs. He had the place out in like Elgin and he's called like the third

floor. But um anyway so we started playing um another band on the side Pelican obviously I was like

exploring kind of the slower like more repetitive kind of side of music where like Tusk was just

like really fast and hectic and blast beats and all that.

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