Steely Dan Drummer (UNT Alum) Keith Carlock Connects With Fans

Harry · May 26, 2012

Keith Carlock is a giant in the music industry, but on Wednesday night at Manchester Community College, he played the drums like a high school kid in his basement.

The Steely Dan drummer, dressed in a plain green tee-shirt, jeans and Converse All Stars entertained a mesmerized drummer-heavy crowd of about 150 at the SBM Charitable Foundation Auditorium.
Carlock, who was introduced by his former roommate at North Texas University, Jay Wood, performed a 20-minute solo to start the show before playing along with several tracks. He followed by a tour of the equipment explanation of the sounds he extracted from them.

Carlock, who plays Gretch drums with Remo heads, Vic Firth sticks and Zildjian cymbals, has toured with industry heavies such as Sting, John Mayer and Faith Hill, but enjoyed the freedom of playing without a script in front of a small and attentive audience. He let the tension off the bass drum to give it an “open, old school sound, huge sound - I like the drums to ring out as much as possible,” Carlock said.

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