Drowning Pool: An Interview with Mike Luce (continued)

Oh yeah Victor is a great guy. He’s really cool. Everybody has just been real amazing and real supportive.

I heard that Wind Up is an awesome label.

Oh they definitely are.

I heard it from Boy Hits Car. You know those guys?

Yeah, those are good guys too.

Yeah those guys are awesome. So your album "Sinner" has recently been certified platinum by the RIAA.  How does that make you feel?

It’s pretty overwhelming, quite honestly. We were just hoping to come out and hopefully just do okay and try to earn our keep through touring, but hey, if it’s gonna go like that we’ll take it.

Not bad for a debut record.

I know man, it’s pretty cool.

So you’re a bad-ass drummer.

Thank you sir.

What contemporary artists influenced your style?  If any.

I’d say definitely Tommy Lee back when I was a kid. That was the guy that I was just in awe of when I was growing up. I think Morgan Rose with Sevendust is just amazing. I would go back during the show, behind the drum riser and watch him during a set. It just blows my mind to watch him. I think Danny Carey from Tool is amazing. I think Tempesta is alright too. I really like him. I think he is a great drummer.  (The drummer for White Zombie)

So does anyone in the band have any formal musical training or did you guys just learn on your own or how did that go?

I’m pretty much just the self taught kid up in the bedroom banging away on the drum set that his mom bought him, you know?

C.J. has got some formal background. He was in the jazz ensemble in college I think for like a semester or two. Before he did the big college drop out. But that’s pretty much it. We’ve all had a

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