Like the first time I ever heard Bob Marley, the record Kaya. And he was glad to have me there, taking me all around with him and showing me all he knew, giving me his records. Brady was five years older and I felt like I was always on his heels. Were you rivals?īrian: Thankfully, we were never rivals. What was it like to grow up in a two-drummer household? They say that the second child always tries harder. So it's this all-star band, a 25-member choir and a girl named Sereca Henderson on Hammond B-3. Brian and I double on drums, Daniel Lanois, U2's producer Malcolm Burn, and Buddy Miller, who's now the head for the TV show Nashville. He's got a band called the Hallelujah Train. My dad's a great singer, a great bass player. It brings me great joy, as I think it does for Brian. The emotions that come from that - it's just unbelievable. And I think we try to apply that feeling of playing in church to whatever music we're playing: jazz, punk rock. Brian and I both started playing drums in church. I was exposed to gospel since I came out of my mother's womb. It remains a part of my life.īrady: In the biggest sense ever. When I'm home on a Wednesday or Sunday, I'm at the drums! It's great. It made everything else make sense later when I wasn't in church - what music was about for me. The things I learned playing with those great singers - my father being the primary one and then the congregation - how praise would be at the foreground of what we were doing. In church, my father gave us the opportunity to be part of the worship service and it laid a bedrock for every other musical situation that we would take part in. That transference of the love of music came to Brady and myself from Brady Sr. If we wanted to learn something and they couldn't teach it to us, it'd be 'get them a teacher, get them a coach.' They're both teachers and instilled the desire to learn and to be taught. My mother Dorothy taught kindergarten for 25 years. What kind of influence did he and the church have on your musical development?īrian: My father and my mother. Tell me about your father, Brady Blade Sr., who has been the pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in your hometown of Shreveport for 52 years. But I take that as the biggest compliment when they think I'm Brian Blade. I like my sandwiches, personally, so I have a little bit more weight on me. He's a skinny kid - I still call him kid. Brady Blade: I get that! When I'm walking through an airport and especially if I have cymbals or something, I'll hear, "Brian!" "No, I'm Brady." "Oh." It's pretty funny.
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