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Danny Carey

Daniel "Danny" Edwin Carey (born May 10, 1961 in Paola, Kansas, USA) is the drummer for the band Tool.

Biography

Danny's first encounter with the drums began at the age of ten by joining the school band and taking private lessons on the snare drum. Two years later, Danny began to practice on a drum set and began working with a private teacher. On his senior year of high school, Danny joined the high school jazz band and began to study under a new teacher specifically for jazz. As Danny progressed through high school and later college at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, he began expanding his studies in percussion with theory into the principles of geometry, science, and metaphysics. Danny also played jazz while attending college and got to experience the jazz scene in Kansas City.

A major commitment to life as an artist convinced Danny to leave Kansas and travel to Los Angeles, California where he was able to perform as a studio drummer with bands like Carole King and perform live sets with Pigmy Love Circus. He would later find his way to Tool after coming to know singer Maynard James Keenan and guitarist Adam Jones and practicing with them in place of drummers the two had requested but had never shown up. Besides Tool, Danny also finds time for other projects new and old such as Pigmy Love Circus and Zaum. Danny Carey has been widely perceived as one of ther most talented and focused percussionists of this generation.

Religion and the Occult

Although Danny has not officially aligned himself with any particular school of philosophy or religion, he has projected a deep interest in and understanding for the magical arts and sciences, among them sacred geometry and various occult teachings. Enochian symbols, geometric designs, and special symbolic percussive devices are featured on and in his drum kit.

Side Projects and other Musical Endeavours

Carey drummed on the Carole King album Colour of Your Dreams with GNR's Slash playing on select tracks.

Danny currently has numerous side projects, including past work in Green Jellÿ, and his current electronica-oriented project Zaum.

In search of new techniques, Carey has studied tabla with Aloke Dutta. Carey's popularity among drummers and non-drummers stems from the diversity of his sound, his supreme technical ability, and his frequent uses of odd times signatures.

Carey toured in 2003 with his side project Pigmy Love Circus as the opening band for A Perfect Circle's 2003 club tour.

Carey has also contributed to Adrian Belew's Side One project with bassist Les Claypool.

Carey also made an appearance on the 1997 album Free Mars by former Tool bassist Paul D'Amour's band Lusk.

Carey plays in the largely improvisational fusion band VOLTO!, who are planning to record an album late this year if it does not clash with Tool's upcoming and initial tour following the release of their new album.

Equipment

For just over a few years now Danny has continued to switch between two drum kits. One being his Sonor (Signature and/or Designer series), and the other being his Paiste drums. The latter are Custom Cast bronze drums made from recycled Paiste cymbals. These drums are manufactured by master drum tech and drum maker Jeff Ocheltree, and the drums he produces are also known as 'Drumtree' drums.

Danny has been a Paiste cymbal endorser since 1992. Most of his cymbals are from the Signature series, but he also has 2oo2 and NoiseWorks series cymbals on his kit.

Danny uses Evans drum heads, with the following combinations:

  • Toms: G2 clear on batter side, G1 clear on resonant side.
  • Snare: Genera HD Dry or Power Center Reverse Dot on batter side, Evans Hazy 300 on snare side.
  • Bass: EQ3 clear on batter side, Retro Screen Mesh on resonant side.

Danny uses his own signature model of drumstick made by Vic Firth. He previously had a signature model with now-dissolved company Trueline.

Recently Danny began using an electronic drum pad previously designed exclusively for him by Vince De Franco. This pad is called the Mandala Drum, and has apparently replaced the numerous Simmons electronic drum pads he used to have in his setup.


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