Name: Dave Elitch | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 10-9-25 | Bill Burr
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Dave Elitch | Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 10-9-25 | Bill Burr

hey what's going on it's bill burr it's time for the thursday afternoon just
before friday
monday morning podcast and i'm just checking in on you oh um all right so it's
videotaped here
whatever they kids say nowadays the digital what it's being filmed it's not
film whatever the fuck
it is um just to let you know whenever you see this it means i have a special
guest and um this
is no different um this man is uh one of my favorite people out here in la uh
one of my
great friends and my drum instructor uh the one and only mr dave elich thanks
for having me buddy
what's going on thanks for showing up yeah you know sometimes you have a guest
and they uh maybe
they don't they don't show up i'm here um you have you already have done a
couple of these instructional
videos yep um the first one was getting out of your own way the second one was
to get out of your way
part two staying out of your own staying out of your own way with john travolta
sorry i love that you're old enough to get that joke and now your new one which
i downloaded this
morning yeah and you gave me he gave me a free download and i couldn't figure
it out so i said
fuck it i'm gonna pay for it so i can well because i'm gonna i'm gonna get it
anyway so i appreciate
and this one's your mind's ear you got it yeah and this one this one is all
about like um
the technique of playing drums totally broken down with his expertise and all
that and what i've
always told people is they'll ask me like you know what happens is is you know
along the times when
i've been sitting in with these uh these bands is my playing has improved to
the point that people
are asking me what i'm doing and i always tell them you know about you and then
they always get like
nervous like especially like self-taught guys there is i don't know if there is
that now because so many
people just take instruction from um the internet but like there's there was
there was a thing when i
was coming up where i'm like self-taught man i play from here yeah yeah i don't
want to learn technique
and come from here yeah and i always tell them what's great about what you do
is you don't change what
the person plays you just make what the person plays easier yes and more
efficient so just to give
you guys an idea with my dad drumming that i'm doing in my garage you're gigging
a ton though when
you just did the pretenders thing and you're you're constantly sitting in with
people which is
gigging you are gigging you are i i've been i've been sitting in that pretenders
thing was like a
legit gig i played tambourine with the bangles you know i've done some no i
never did i would though
putting that out there see it's gonna happen um oh is it gina shock she's the
fucking shit man
yep ellipsis sealed is one of the great fucking drum grooves of the 80s yep um
anyway so you've been
teaching me like i was like there's a few songs out there that i am obsessed
with the uh the 16th
notes and it's a single yeah one-handed one-handed thing and uh so you were
giving me like information
on on that and just that alone how much i've been able to increase the bpms
without getting any
tightness in here whatsoever is amazing and i always felt like wow all of these
friends that i have
you know i wish that they could come out and take a lesson with you which i
know you do but like
you can now like all this like i was literally so much of this shit that i that
i was watching that i got to
watch this morning i was like flashing back to being with you going this is
like literally
what you you know holding the stick and it lines up like that and there's like
a straight line like this
and the gap here and you're using this muscle well the reason why i made it is
because i would go
through it with people and they'd be like okay this is great i got it and then
they'd walk out and be
like what just happened and then they'd get home and want to practice it and
then they'd go on youtube
or instagram and who knows what they're watching on there yes and then they'd
come back in we'd have
to do it all over again i don't know if you know about the internet there's no
rules of libel or slander
and anybody can essentially do a ted talk exactly that's the problem right so
that was why i made it so
people can go home and pull up a video of me doing it and it's the same thing
and they can work on it
and not get convoluted by garbage on the internet yeah and what i thought i
always i think i told this
story i'll tell it again was the first time i saw you when you were in the mars
volta and i i was
i was laughing when i was watching you playing going this guy looks like his
arms are gonna fall off
and then when i when i talked to you said oh you know that's just like this
performative thing like
i'm not really hitting that hard yeah it's just i'm doing like a visual thing
but like the thing
about it is is is if i was a kid and i was to watch you do that i would
probably get hurt oh yeah
thinking oh yeah that i that you would just fucking i mean there are moments
where i'm beating the living
shit out of things for sure but there are also moments where i'm doing
movements where it looks
like it and i'm not actually hitting that hard because if you hit that hard not
only does it actually
make the drums choke sometimes and sound smaller but also you just can't do
that i mean volta we
would play for two and a half hours it's a long time right you know so you just
can't do that for
that long without just killing yourself so sometimes i am hitting really hard
but sometimes i'm just
putting on a show visually you know and you have to kind of pick and choose
your moments that's
something that i i i finally i don't know like it was one of the things when i
i would be playing
or whatever and then every once in a while i would videotape myself and i was
just like like i have i
look like that fucking potted plant over there sitting behind a good drum kit
which is like well
totally expressionless like looking down and it's just like okay you're
expressing your childhood
trauma and this is why you needed a hobby because you don't want to revisit
childhood pain well that's not
going to be fun for the person watching you playing drums well when we first
started working together
i was like i was like i was like look you're you're you're doing stuff that's
not uncommon globally but
like you're collapsed into yourself right you're sitting really low i was
collapsed i was lean i was
lean to the side this way i had sciatic nerve issues yes i had rotator cuff
issues i had all of that
from that was a lot of that was from just like not stretching and then poor
technique at the gym
yeah yeah it's all well that's diana you know that's all the diana stuff yeah i
made the masseuse
who uh passed away which is why we did this thing out of your own way thing
together because it's like
you use yourself healthily like in a healthy way on the drum kit and then you
work out and take care of
your body and you put all that stuff together and now you don't have any issues
you know well i like
about that though is you're not only you're teaching somebody how to play the
drums you're teaching
them how to have a long career because you know i'm old and i'm not gonna name
any names here but
i'm old enough to see you know the uh i guess all those years of performing and
like
dude i mean when we were like every you everything was self-taught when i was
growing up like
working nobody went to the gym no rock stars did they were all no they were all
like this big you
know what i mean like on and like i just saw a thing with joe nameth this
morning on instagram
and he was like oh yeah no one went to the gym in the 70s because everyone
thought you just bulk up
and get stiff because no one knew you needed to get massaged oh yeah no all of
that and and and like
also they also didn't know how to do knee surgeries no and all of that and
everyone's smoking and
drinking and eating fried chicken and well some things you should keep some
things some things they
weren't wasn't all that speaking of which i had my first cigar uh since uh january
i bet that was
incredible it was incredible it was incredible um and uh so then like my new
rules i have to go like 10
days before i have another one because right around 10 days is when i think
like do i want to do this
do i want to do i i just but i can't go back to being like jack klugman on the
odd couple every day
like i i have a sports beat and i'm following the local baseball team you know
what it is for me when
i'm at home and i'm like man i'd love to have a cigar right now it's i think am
i gonna wake up in
the morning with the with the ashtray mouth and be like nah that wasn't worth
it sometimes you do and
you're like that was great yeah it's once you cross into the alone cigar which
is amazing yeah i would
put a lone cigar up there with with with drinking alone yes which is really
underrated like like
people like talk about what a problem that is but like if you just like feel
safe by being by yourself
and you like to get a buzz like although a lot of the people that i've spoken
positively about drinking
by yourself or also alcohol yeah yeah you gotta be it's a slippery slope i
remember one of my
going like dude you ever like uh you ever drink by yourself and then he was
just like oh yeah dude i
love it and we almost talked about like like it was this zen thing that we were
doing rather than we
had a problem or day drinking yeah i can't do that well i i can listen i can do
it but i i don't do it
anymore but like what i did love about day drinking is that was like the pros
like at night there was
like the jerk offs trying to make the league right but like during the day when
you when you walked
into a bar and like this is how you knew a pro drinker not only were they
drinking during the day
they had no interest in talking to anybody like the bartender they know they
know each other's names
and they don't and they just they just sort of looked they would just tap the
top of their glass
you know and they always had like some sort of newspaper yeah high tops too for
some reason these day
drinkers loved the high tops they had white high tops on and they had like back
in the 80s yeah and
they had like the skinny like skinny jeans and then they had like the the
fucking like and then
skinny arms and then they just had the keg kegerator fucking like torso yeah
that's the alcohol
alcoholic build oh yeah it was fantastic speaking of which i went to the doctor
the other day and my
liver looks fantastic it took eight years though but like it can repair itself
so yeah good for you
yeah i was looking like kobe beef there for a minute so oh this is but my brain
i need to work on that
though because i looked at my phone today i was trying to show somebody a clip
of something and i
looked and i saw these like sonograms like someone was pregnant and they had
like eight of them i'm like
what the fuck is this who is this and i go it am i on like some sort of like
open share thing like
yeah he sent these i don't know what the i forgot my heart doctor had sent them
to my phone like he
airdropped them because he airdropped them i didn't remember like i just had to
say they were in
but like to my eyes i was just scrolling through these photos i'm like who do i
know that's fucking
pregnant did nia just send me these oh my god
oh dude yeah yeah like i can't handle this so no but anyway to get back to your
um
your course another thing which i was i had to breeze through someone because
it's very long it's a
lot which you were also talking about tuning yes of drums and stuff which i'm
telling you
out of all the fucking mysteries out there that thing like he you're the one
where i can finally
actually make a drum sound okay and dude i came to your house the last time we
were hanging out doing
the lesson i sat down and hit the bass drum i was like it's like jesus dude
this kid sounds amazing
well that's the stuff this is this this is the stuf