JEAN PAUL GASTER (CLUTCH): “We Take Turns Each Night Setting Up The Setlist To Keep It More Interesting For Us”

CLUTCH (Live at The O2 Academy, Leeds, U.K., December 19, 2019) — Photo: Mick Burgess

After over 25 years and 12 albums, Maryland’s CLUTCH are riding the crest of a wave with Book of Bad Decisions: their highest charting album worldwide to date. While on a sold-out UK tour Metal Express Radio’s Mick Burgess sat down with drummer Jean Paul Gaster in Leeds to talk about the tour, the recent digitally released cover songs, the importance of setting up their own Weathermaker label and Jean Paul also talks about the influence of the DC Go-Go Funk scene In Washington on his drumming style.

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Mick Burgess
Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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