236: Jason Sutter (Cher, Marilyn Manson, Foreigner, etc.)

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

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

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jason Sutter is a consummate professional with a command of the craft of drumming that has allowed him to thrive in seemingly disparate situations ranging from Cher to Marilyn Manson. Jason grew up in upstate NY, but through a strange twist of fate, he and his cousin were friends with Joe's next door neighbors in Milwaukee. Jason talks about growing up with an artist father; the business of getting gigs; striving for greatness during formal training; and his side business as a real estate agent.

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0:00.0	I've been getting out of my comfort zone the whole time and saying yes to everything to the point where there is no comfort zone anymore.
0:17.5	This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the trap set. Lots of folks have reached out and asked us to put the show on Spotify.
0:26.5	And because Spotify has strict rules regarding the use of music and podcasts, this week we'll experiment with omitting any music from the show.
0:35.6	Let us know what you think. My guest this week is drummer Jason Sutter.
0:40.7	Jason has a command of the craft that has enabled him to thrive as the drummer for artists such as
0:45.5	Marilyn Manson, Joe Perry, foreigner, and the New York Dolls. Jason grew up in upstate New York,
0:52.5	but I coincidentally met him back in the 80s because he happened to be friends with my next door neighbor in Milwaukee.
0:59.0	Jason goes out on tour with Cher beginning this month, and we spoke in downtown Los Angeles last year.
1:07.0	And now my conversation with Jason Sutter.
1:10.0	My dad was a sculptor at the university. He was a professor of drawing and sculpture at Potsdam State College there.
1:17.6	That was a SUNY college, right?
1:20.6	And then my mother was a nurse there.
1:23.6	Oh cool, my mom's a nurse too.
1:25.6	Yeah. So that was cool. You know, we grew up in that kind of
1:28.1	campus environment, all the kids in my high school, even though it was a lot of farmland and
1:31.4	farmers. And it was, you know, beautiful. We grew up on a river, beautiful river, the Racquet River
1:37.0	that came from the St. Lawrence River from Canada. We were minutes from Canada, which was fun to kind of be kind of grow up in that crossing a border, like it was nothing, you know, to go get Chinese food. We can get Chinese food and where we grew
1:47.9	at where we were. We'd cross the border in 20 minutes and we'd have food or dinner and exotic,
1:52.3	you know, different foods and go to Montreal. And it was like when I finally got to Paris,
1:57.0	you know, my 20s, I was like, oh, I grew up right next to this. It was called Montreal. Yeah, it is weird. Like when you're crossing the border and driving into Quebec, it really
2:04.7	does feel like you're in the French countryside. Oh, you are. Oh, no, I see what you mean.
2:08.7	Yeah, yeah. Definitely. Definitely. It really has that feeling, even though everything about it.
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