His underratedness is intentional, hes just a down to earth person who never let fame really get to his head and just enjoys making music for the masses without the massive 'fame' burdens.
The Rudes and the 2002s are awesome cymbals for metal and hard rock. I'm a Remo guy but most of my snares are Evans batter and reso. Loyalty is hard to find these days and to stick with Tama and Paiste for 30+ years is commendable.
He's not lying about practicing so much..I lived around the corner from him and everyday I would hear him playing for hours on end and it definitely paid off cause he's an Amazing drummer...
I watched Anthrax at the 'Mayhem Festival' in Cincinnati back in 2010. Many bands were there and performed but Anthrax truly were the show to see. What performers. You can tell they've been at it a long time because they were just so tight and know each other so well. Not sloppy. These guys were fantastic. Truly!
Charlie is a great player. And he always had a very punchy yet open sound. Love the fact that Charlie is a fan of Carter. I always love hearing about drummers being inspired by other drummers in other genres.
He’s an amazing drummer to see live. I’ve seen Anthrax three times, and the third time was the first time I saw Charlie behind the kit, and I was totally blown away by his playing.
I saw Charlie at a slipknot show in Chicago this August and is one of the nicest guys ever! He stopped talking to his friends so that I could get a picture with him and when I told him I play the drums he patted me on the shoulder and said “keep playing” what a great night!
I’m a TAMA devotee. They make incredible drums without the insane price tag of some of the ‘premium’ brands out there. My Imperialstar was incredible and lasted me well into my intermediate/veteran playing. If you put some nice skins on that and whack an EMAD on the bass drum, it’s a hard sound to top.
Seen him play in Birmingham UK, and he was brutal, consistent and mesmerizing to hear and watch. Caught them at least five times and never seen him mess up
@@aboutthemetal8783: In that era of late 80's-early 90's TAMA, 8x8 10x10 & 16x16 were the only square sizes offered in the Granstar [birch]. Artstar 1 [cordia], and Artstar 2 [maple] lines. The rest were X-tras sizes on toms, one inch short of square: 11x10, 12x11, 13x12, 14x13, 15x14 [diam x depth]. These are easier to tune than fully square sizes. I'll be posting one of these kits for sale on CL in Los Angeles soon. Near-mint condition. Studio kept.
Huge Tama fan here. Huge Paiste fan as well. One day I will have the ultimate metal kit with those brands. Charlie and Anthrax are legends, glad to see they are still going strong.
I remember when they first came out I used to see them a couple times at l'amour's in New York Brooklyn Bensonhurst they will awesome men hot MTV it was 1985 I saw them
Two beasts talking! Love them both. Hey Charley: Thanks! Following since 1986. Still here, and drumming as well. To Nick: I am glad you exist, and you are in my top list there with Gavin Harrison, Portnoy, Peart, Colaiuta, Weckl, Carter Breauford...that ALWAYS inspire, ( never bored ) me to continue.
I chose Yamaha, but Tama was a very close second due to Clive Burr, my first huge inspiration and the reason I became a drummer. Paiste always of course, since Zildjian didn't sound right as a metal instrument
Amazing kit!! Charlie is definitely one of the thrash metal drummers that influenced me as a drummer.. the among the living record is hands down one of the most iconic metal albums of all time and the drum parts are just incredible.. one of my favorites by far.. he's a little underrated imo, and he should be up there w the greatest drummers in the game.. not to mention he's a super nice dude.. very cool guy.. Great video.. I love these rig run down vids.. awesome stuff.. Thanks for sharing.. Cheers from Cincinnati Ohio USA..
Chaaaarlieee !!! Amazing ! You have not been thrown out of the band and you did not explode yet ! And finally you are in this RUclips video ! Now you become famous ! Can you believe it. !! It‘s so awesom !
Really cool to hear one of my favorite drummers (Charlie) talk about getting inspired to do better by listening to another amazing drummer (Carter). The first Anthrax album I heard was Among the living, and he still brings excellence!
@@tomika5858 easy..because Anthrax never went huge..they sold a few gold albums.They were huge to metal..like Testament., They are working class metal..not Metallica huge
One of my heroes honestly! Charlie for me belongs with the Peart, Aldridge, Simon Phillips, etc of the drumming world 🥁🤟🥰 His beat on Bring the Noise of doing double triplets on the feet and regular 8th note 2 n 4 on top is just 😳 and it works! 👌
I'm a huge metal guy, but I always liked Anthrax and Charlie Benante. I also like what he said about Simon Phillip's kit... I've been a fan of him as well, and learn to decrease/remove dampening from the kit and allow them to resonate. You actually need that dynamic when "competing" with guitar and bass amps.
Charlie is a great dude. Check out his channel on RUclips and see how talented he really is. Drums is not his only instrument he plays guitar as well as piano and has written most of the anthrax catalog
Love his playing. His speed and clarity on some of his snare fills is just awesome. Oh man! At the end there mentioning going to see Dave Mathews! Pentagram pass revoked Sir! Surprised when he said it his drums didn’t cry out like Christine!
LOVE this!!!! Attack of the killer B's absolutely blew up my brain when it came out!! My neighborhood wasn't the same that yr. Lol my neighbors had the joy of me tryin to learn these tunes.. they heard the same 8:25 (parasite/pipeline/sects) over and over I cant imagine how many times hahaha
The undisputed king of metal drumming since 1985. Arguably one of the most talented musicians in the metal & rock world. Writes most of the guitar riffs for Anthrax. Just a fucking legend 🤘
Charlie the original hard heavy loud blast beat master, the blasts on the first SOD record are something all young metal drummers need to listen to, No triggers just power and speed, he puts many a modern day super fast death/black metal drummers to shame , Hit hard and ditch the triggers.
I'll never forget an article in Modern Drummer magazine I read back during the State of Euphoria era. Charlie was asked how often he practiced and learned new things as a drum student. He said..."I probably shouldn't say this in a drum magazine, but I never practice!" lol
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Arguably one of the most underrated drummers of all time, and what a cool dude.
Sod....he was doing blast beats way back then before anyone...Doesn't get enough credit
The best of the big 4 drummers
@Kënny Hamiltön oh yeah, a jazz drummer playin thrash! Haha yeah good shout that is. I meant from as they are now though
MC MC I’m sorry, but no-one has as much speed and feel as Dave Lombardo
His underratedness is intentional, hes just a down to earth person who never let fame really get to his head and just enjoys making music for the masses without the massive 'fame' burdens.
It was a pleasure doing the wraps on this kit for Charlie. Turned out great, and the kit looks amazing!
SicSkinz1 nice work dude. It looks awesome.
Great job!
SicSkinz1 dang dude, it looks incredible!
you did this? you are god!
"Thats a hell of a job soldier"
The Rudes and the 2002s are awesome cymbals for metal and hard rock. I'm a Remo guy but most of my snares are Evans batter and reso. Loyalty is hard to find these days and to stick with Tama and Paiste for 30+ years is commendable.
He's not lying about practicing so much..I lived around the corner from him and everyday I would hear him playing for hours on end and it definitely paid off cause he's an Amazing drummer...
One of the most ageless musicians I've ever seen. He looks the same from like 30 years ago.
Also Frank Bello
How is it he still looks like he's 28? He's still one of the greatest metal drummers ever.
when u do what u love and enjoy --it helps keep u young
He doesn’t drink
Begin a great metal drummer makes you look like you are still 28
Almost everyone in Anthrax looks young
he looks like he might have lost a bit of weight recently
Hoglan, Lomardo & Benante all day!!
Don't forget tom hunting too
Buddy Rich
Neil Peart
Chris Adler
Ray Luzier
Mike Portnoy
Pete Weber
And...
Lars Ulrich
😜🤘
@@eyenfinityface-thecosmiclo2717 How about Stewart Copeland?
Hey who farted 6:32
Gavin Harrison?
This guy is so underrated.I absolutely admire his playing &he is very down-to-earth.Very humble.Charlie your kit is beautiful!I also play Tama!
I watched Anthrax at the 'Mayhem Festival' in Cincinnati back in 2010. Many bands were there and performed but Anthrax truly were the show to see. What performers. You can tell they've been at it a long time because they were just so tight and know each other so well. Not sloppy. These guys were fantastic. Truly!
Nick and Charlie are two of the greatest and underapreciated drummers out there.
Charlie is a great player. And he always had a very punchy yet open sound. Love the fact that Charlie is a fan of Carter. I always love hearing about drummers being inspired by other drummers in other genres.
Favourite drummer, him and Lombardo more than inspired me to try and take the drums up
A true master of the art of drumming. This guy is one of the best in the world.
I loooooove Charlie. Saw anthrax open for kiss when I was 19..among the Living tour..LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
Not only is he a great drummer but what a nice generous guy!!! The best!!!
One of my all time favorites. Charlie, you changed my life when I first heard Anthrax. Thank you for so many years of amazing playing!!
Love Charlie, incredible drummer and very fitting he is rocking it with Pantera. 👏🏻
You need to hear Charlie live. He is super fast and plays the best fills!
He’s an amazing drummer to see live. I’ve seen Anthrax three times, and the third time was the first time I saw Charlie behind the kit, and I was totally blown away by his playing.
@@MegaThrasher95 did you see them back in the 80s in New York l'amour's in Bensonhurst I saw them in 85 they were awesome
mike r unfortunately, no! That was before my time. I was born in ‘95
@@MegaThrasher95 it's cool yeah I'm getting old I am old
Anthrax has always been a favourite of mine and as a drummer Charlie too.
He's got incredible chops.
i just met charlie in july at heavymontreal damn what cool guy and was impresive to see him play live on backstage!!!!!!
Charlie Benante is my Favorite speed Metal Drummer ever..He is such a badass
A legendary beast, and humble AF. One of my inspirations from the early days for sure!
Awesome drummer! One of the best in heavy metal.
I saw Charlie at a slipknot show in Chicago this August and is one of the nicest guys ever! He stopped talking to his friends so that I could get a picture with him and when I told him I play the drums he patted me on the shoulder and said “keep playing” what a great night!
I’m a TAMA devotee. They make incredible drums without the insane price tag of some of the ‘premium’ brands out there. My Imperialstar was incredible and lasted me well into my intermediate/veteran playing. If you put some nice skins on that and whack an EMAD on the bass drum, it’s a hard sound to top.
I chose Yamaha, but Tama was a very close second due to Clive Burr, my first huge inspiration and the reason I became a drummer
Great interview. I wished you would’ve discussed the size of each drum. 👏
Seen him play in Birmingham UK, and he was brutal, consistent and mesmerizing to hear and watch.
Caught them at least five times and never seen him mess up
Seems like a humble guy. Cool interview
Whenever I hear Anthrax music from now on, I’ll listen for the woof and chunk.
They also have a lot of 'gunk'
Tama art star , bring back the art star power toms like the 80's and 90s
Tama square sized toms are what us real metal drummers NEED.
Artstar 2 all the way. Still got mine
Speaking as a drummer...YES!!!
What size TAMA power toms are you looking for?
@@sarojaband4664 I want square sizes ,8x8 10x10 and so on
@@aboutthemetal8783: In that era of late 80's-early 90's TAMA, 8x8 10x10 & 16x16 were the only square sizes offered in the Granstar [birch]. Artstar 1 [cordia], and Artstar 2 [maple] lines.
The rest were X-tras sizes on toms, one inch short of square: 11x10, 12x11, 13x12, 14x13, 15x14 [diam x depth]. These are easier to tune than fully square sizes. I'll be posting one of these kits for sale on CL in Los Angeles soon. Near-mint condition. Studio kept.
Huge Tama fan here. Huge Paiste fan as well. One day I will have the ultimate metal kit with those brands.
Charlie and Anthrax are legends, glad to see they are still going strong.
I waited for a Video like this a long time. So great!
My Idol number one!
Greetings Char!
I remember when they first came out I used to see them a couple times at l'amour's in New York Brooklyn Bensonhurst they will awesome men hot MTV it was 1985 I saw them
Two beasts talking! Love them both. Hey Charley: Thanks! Following since 1986. Still here, and drumming as well. To Nick: I am glad you exist, and you are in my top list there with Gavin Harrison, Portnoy, Peart, Colaiuta, Weckl, Carter Breauford...that ALWAYS inspire, ( never bored ) me to continue.
Charlie can't cheat! Dude is an amazing drummer and a great songwriter.
My wife and I met Charlie back in the day and he is as about down to earth as they come :-) ROCK ON!!!!!!! \m/ \m/
i admire Charlie as a drummer but I admire Nick even more! He's one of my heroes.
I chose Yamaha, but Tama was a very close second due to Clive Burr, my first huge inspiration and the reason I became a drummer. Paiste always of course, since Zildjian didn't sound right as a metal instrument
This was awesome! Especially Charlie story about finding the mystical music store and being shown the “heads of destiny“!
What a cool dude.... and an amazing drummer!
A very thrue person we love you Charlie from Québec🇨🇦🇨🇦🥁🥁🥁👏👏👏
Amazing kit!!
Charlie is definitely one of the thrash metal drummers that influenced me as a drummer.. the among the living record is hands down one of the most iconic metal albums of all time and the drum parts are just incredible.. one of my favorites by far.. he's a little underrated imo, and he should be up there w the greatest drummers in the game.. not to mention he's a super nice dude.. very cool guy..
Great video.. I love these rig run down vids.. awesome stuff..
Thanks for sharing..
Cheers from Cincinnati Ohio USA..
Heh Heh the red apple beaters. Used to rock those when I first started.
The inventor of the blast beat, and that is a provable fact.
Love you, Charlie, and thanks for saying Tama right!
Ya 😁 Amazing Charlie Benante 🤘. So down to earht Man. You absolutely Rock Man. Long Live Anthrax 🤘
Chaaaarlieee !!!
Amazing ! You have not been thrown out of the band and you did not explode yet ! And finally you are in this RUclips video ! Now you become famous ! Can you believe it. !!
It‘s so awesom !
A master sharing his chosen tools........Beyond cool👍. Pure gold........Charlie’s a treasure 🤘. Lucky us.
Charlie is by far top 3 top metal drummers imo \m/
Wow, two of my favourite drummers in a conversation about drumming. Drumgasm!
charlie seems like a very humble dude no ego with him and a great drummer to .
Seems like such a humble and nice dude
Really nice interview, enjoyed every minute.
Charlie is one of the best of all time
Charlie is awesome! Loved the details of what and why he uses what he does!
Benante one of my top 5 fav drummers solid and badass!
Really cool to hear one of my favorite drummers (Charlie) talk about getting inspired to do better by listening to another amazing drummer (Carter).
The first Anthrax album I heard was Among the living, and he still brings excellence!
Nick DV is a legendary drummer in his own right 🤘🏽
The softest speaking man in metal after Tom Araya
Such an underrated player. Perhaps THE most creative metal drummer IMHO.
After all these years.......how is he STILL underrrated??
@@tomika5858 easy..because Anthrax never went huge..they sold a few gold albums.They were huge to metal..like Testament., They are working class metal..not Metallica huge
One of my heroes honestly! Charlie for me belongs with the Peart, Aldridge, Simon Phillips, etc of the drumming world 🥁🤟🥰 His beat on Bring the Noise of doing double triplets on the feet and regular 8th note 2 n 4 on top is just 😳 and it works! 👌
Shoutout to the jazz drummer teacher for taking this awesome drummer. Bet the others slapped their faces after 🤣
Amazing drummer!! Thank you Charlie and Nick.
His T-shirt is rush as famous monsters. You rock Charlie!
loved charlies artstar kit for the state of eurphoria tour :)
Nice interview. Go get em' Charlie!!!! Charlie DON'T CHEAT!!!
I'm a huge metal guy, but I always liked Anthrax and Charlie Benante. I also like what he said about Simon Phillip's kit... I've been a fan of him as well, and learn to decrease/remove dampening from the kit and allow them to resonate. You actually need that dynamic when "competing" with guitar and bass amps.
I love Charlie, that's my boy. In this interview he seems buzzed or high. Kind of took away from what he really wanted to tell us about his kit. Lol
One of my favorite drummers. Such a legit dude .
Cozy Powell was a Paiste 2002 player and Ian Paice, Nicko McBrain, Tico Torres and and and... Nice brand and good warranties on the cymbals.
😎👍🥁CHARLIE!
You rocked riotfest bro!
Sir Charles has always been one my personal straight ahead no Bullshit
Great drummer sick drums and cymbals
Charlie your awesome and keep on kicking those doubles!
Charlie is a great dude. Check out his channel on RUclips and see how talented he really is. Drums is not his only instrument he plays guitar as well as piano and has written most of the anthrax catalog
As much as I love you at Sweetwater- but why could`nt we see the actual kit? With descrition of all the specific drums?
It's a custom kit..Tama probably don't want the specs released. When they give you a $50,000 dollar drum set..you respect that
and I would also like to hear Nick play that kit, even for a short while, the interview is nice, but damn, let's hear it !
That drumset is nowhere near 50k. More like 15k. Cymbals - hardware and everything else - 20k max
Agree
Maple tons and Bubinga/Birch Kicks. It's on video 🤷🏻♂️
One of my favourite drummers!
Love his playing. His speed and clarity on some of his snare fills is just awesome. Oh man! At the end there mentioning going to see Dave Mathews! Pentagram pass revoked Sir! Surprised when he said it his drums didn’t cry out like Christine!
Maybe an underrated drummer but definitely an underrated guitarist.
LOVE this!!!! Attack of the killer B's absolutely blew up my brain when it came out!! My neighborhood wasn't the same that yr. Lol my neighbors had the joy of me tryin to learn these tunes.. they heard the same 8:25 (parasite/pipeline/sects) over and over I cant imagine how many times hahaha
Charlie is one of the greatest metal drummers in the world
Seems like a down to earth dude...nice kit too,.
Awesome interview, 🤘🤘🤘
Amazing drummer!
That kit is nuts!! Dang! I be wuvin it.
The undisputed king of metal drumming since 1985. Arguably one of the most talented musicians in the metal & rock world. Writes most of the guitar riffs for Anthrax.
Just a fucking legend 🤘
Beautiful kit.
Love Charlie! His skeleton kit is legendary. Surprised he didn't mention having any bass in the in ear mix 🤔
Charlie the original hard heavy loud blast beat master, the blasts on the first SOD record are something all young metal drummers need to listen to,
No triggers just power and speed, he puts many a modern day super fast death/black metal drummers to shame ,
Hit hard and ditch the triggers.
Charlie has great energy!
Please do Jay Weinberg next!!
I'll never forget an article in Modern Drummer magazine I read back during the State of Euphoria era.
Charlie was asked how often he practiced and learned new things as a drum student.
He said..."I probably shouldn't say this in a drum magazine, but I never practice!" lol
But he does. He has posted short videos of him practicing for years.
“Let’s get to that drum set up right now”!
great drummer
Benante is a freaking Monster. Soooooooo Underrated...........................
Charly B, what a great drummer!
Because Charlieee.. Don't Cheat! 👍
S.O.D
One of the best guitar players that plays the drums.
Get Lombardo next please!!! :)
The dream!
Uncle Charlie is such a class act