Mr. Bonzai’s Neighborhood: Chili Chad Smith, Part II

July 10, 2011

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BONZAI: When did you decide to be a drummer?

SMITH: Well, I’m still thinking about it! But when I was seven years old, I discovered that drums were the only instrument in the house that wasn’t taken. My sister played piano, my brother played guitar. I gravitated toward the drums, and I think that the drums chose me.

I was lucky to find my passion at an early age. I just started banging away on cardboard Baskin-Robbins ice cream tubs that my father had grabbed out of the trash behind the store. I used little Lincoln logs children’s sticks for drumsticks. I had only the finest equipment at a young age, hence my rapid mastery of the instrument.

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