Eric Singer Interview with Rock Music Star
By John Jeffrey / Rock Music Star
After meeting, talking to and interviewing countless artists in the music industry, you can develope a pretty good gauge on who are the “salesmen,” the bullshitters and the ‘real deal’ straight-shooters in the scene. Longtime KISS drummer Eric Singer definitely falls in the latter category.
Although 2017 and 2018 hasn’t been an extremely active time for a KISS as a complete ‘band’ entity, Eric Singer always keeps himself busy. During some downtime from the KISS machine, Eric Singer checked in with Rock Music Star. While there’s no real KISS “news” to report, in a rare opportunity, Eric gave us a real candid chat, opening up about life, drums and the ultimate pursuit of happiness.
RockMusicStar: Eric, I have to say, one of the things I admire about you is that no matter what you have going on musically, you always seem to be keeping yourself busy. I imagine for some people, when they’re not on the road, it would be easy to just sit back and do nothing, but you always seem to be on the go.
Eric Singer: That’s all a person can do – if you think about it. I always tell people, just keep moving, keep swimming. In life, don’t just keep standing somewhere, keep moving. Because some kind of forward motion, or perpetual motion, keeps you from getting sedentary, and also sometimes from getting depressed.
RMS: One thing I’ve seen from your social media is that you really enjoy and really encourage younger kids getting involved in playing music, playing drums or other instruments. My grandson Matthew is really showing natural music ability, as he can sing and has great instinctive rhythm, and is really showing the early signs of having the skills to play the drums.
ES: How old is he now?
RMS: He is 10,
ES: That’s about the right age. I was about that age, I was like about 9 or 10. That seems about the good age because they know if they actually like it, if it’s something they really want to do. Unfortunately, too many parents will try to force it on their kids because they want to live vicariously through their kids, because they didn’t do certain things and wished they did. The get into the mentality, “Well I want better things for my family” and “I want my kid to be able to do what I didn’t do” and then they start to over do it – to the point where you can tell they’re trying to live through their kids. If the kids gravitate towards it, then that’s cool, but it seems like some parents get really heartbroken if their kid doesn’t like football or basketball, or doesn’t want to play an instrument and say the father did. Then the father’s like, “How come you’re not athletic? You gotta be athletic. You gotta do this.” They really want them to do it for them, not because the kid wants to.
