205: Tucker Rule (Thursday)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

For 20 years, Tucker Rule's crisp, authoritative drumming has laid the foundation for the band Thursday. Tucker discusses: his childhood obsession with baseball; recording and touring shortly after learning to play; working with a boy band after Thursday went on hiatus; and why planking is an essential part of his daily workout routine.

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0:00.0	I've been comfortable with other things in my life and it's burned me. You know what I mean?
0:03.3	So I feel like the second I started feeling comfortable is the second that I stopped trying.
0:20.6	This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set. I want to play something for you.
0:26.6	... The
0:40.3	The You're hearing No Answers by Thursday, featuring my guest Tucker Rule on drums.
1:07.0	Thursday was Tucker's first band.
1:09.0	He developed a crisp, powerfully tidy style during the band's
1:12.1	initial 15-year run. Thursday went on hiatus in 2012, and Tucker further refined his playing,
1:19.7	working as a musician for hire in the pop world. You can hear him on the new Frank Iero
1:24.9	release, Barriers, out next month. I spoke to Tucker on a tour
1:29.2	bus before a recent Thursday reunion show in Orange County. And now my conversation with Tucker Rule.
1:49.0	I grew up right in the center near Bridgewater.
1:52.0	It's like just about 45 minutes from New Brunswick.
1:54.0	Everybody was big into sports.
1:57.4	You know, like my mom coached my baseball team when I was a kid.
1:58.3	You know, it was crazy. Really awesome.
1:59.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:59.4	So it's like I've always, I had like a sporting background, but my mom was a postmaster.
2:05.6	And I, we kind of live right next door to my grandparents.
2:08.4	So I always had like.
2:10.1	The multi-generational upbringing?
2:12.1	Yeah, yeah.
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