Darryn Farrugia

My guest today is Australian drumming legend, Darryn Farrugia. When I was an beginner drummer in NZ in the early 90s, there wasn’t much access to international drummers apart from magazines or Starlick or DCI videos. So I used to sit down every Saturday night and study Darren doing his thing as the house band drummer on Hey Hey It’s Saturday. He used to blow me away with his playing and crack me up with his quirk by sticking his head in the TV shot he wasn’t suppose to be in haha! Daz studied with Frank Corniola and Virgil Donati and he also spent time in the US to study with Marvin Smitty Smith and Joe Morello. One day, Darren got a call to dep for Virgil on the Burt Newton show which opened some doors and eventually lead to his call up to Hey Hey Saturday. Through Hey Hey, he got to play with Tom Jones, Tina Arena, The Commodores, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Cocker, B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter, Randy Crawford, Roger Daltry, Barry Manilow, Jackson Browne, Rene Geyer, Thelma Houston Tommy Emmanuel to name just a few. Darren started teaching at age 16 and has maintained that right through his career. As well as spending a few years teaching in the UK, he’s released 2 books called Groove Perspectives and The Groove Perspectives Playalong, and he has a top notch drumming YouTube channel which has great content, looks awesome and sounds fantastic. Among all that, he’s a pretty mean woodworker, and shares an alter ego by the name of Giuseppe The Giraffe on his instagram. Cheers, Stevie. Episode recorded 22/03/2020. Episode Intro Music: Chase the Scene - Darryn Farrugia (Seeds 2016). Episode Outro Music: Seeds - Darryn Farrugia (Seeds 2016). https://www.darrynfarrugia.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009112474438 https://www.instagram.com/darryn_farrugia/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX8QuB9vhtFUjkLQT44HMQA-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here to securely donate to The Gig Life Podcast.Your support is very much appreciated. Thank you. https://www.thegiglifepodcast.com You can check out The Gig Life Podcast socials on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter