This was an event with the three brothers. John is also in this video, on the other drum kit, on Chad's side.

If not "THE" beast! You know you are good if Frank Zappa hires you. Ask any drummer out there and Zappas drummers are all gods! Terry Bozzio, Vinnie Colaiuta, and Chad Wackerman.. Search any of those drummers and you would see what I mean!!

@@yourdrummer2034 He was simultaneously playing with Zappa, Allan Holdsworth and Barbara Streisand. Not to be bad for a guy that was under 25 at the time. :)

Oh. Chad is Brooks Brother? I only know it now

That’s awesome, he’s a crazy good drummer and seems like a really great guy, so glad he’s in Avenged, creatively he fits in so well and personality wise they all get along very well.

Supported Suicidals way back then on a European tour and sat side of stage every single night with my jaw on the floor…he’s an absolute beast on the kit but as soft as a pussy cat away from it. Loved that tour!

Do you still do lessons?

Lucky!

I was Brooks year at Los Al and loaned him my Christmas gift - a Dave Weckyl instructional drumming video. I was in Chuck's Jazz Band II and he was in Band I obviously. He gave it back to me and said he had learned some chops from it but hated the part where Dave made fun of heavy metal drumming being "no dynamics". Kind of funny how things turned out. I think he won best soloist as a drummer and a freshman in the Reno Jazz festival but it might have been the next year when I was a sophomore. We had a concert with Louis Bellson my freshman year and Brooks went toe to toe with an all time great on the drums. Mind blowing the talent in that family. Chuck was the nicest guy you'll ever meet.

He's a monster

Chad is his brother

Brooks wackerman , I was wrong about that he is Chad wackerman's brother, not son and they have another brother who's a drummer not a bass player named John Wackerman.

@@MatChew75 still wrong 😂. John is a drummer too. Bob is the bass player. They are four brothers.

Now we have a full jazz concert with all Wackerman brothers and a big band: kzfaq.infoPgr8x5pLL9I?feature=share

What song writing credits does he have though?

@@millertime1089 Ok? He was talking about drumming not songwriting credits. Its irrelevant.

@@millertime1089 literally all of the Stage? Rev looked up to Brooks as one of his biggest inspirations. Revs stuff was great, and were he still be alive, he'd be on par with Brooks.

@@millertime1089 only 5 incredible albums with bad religion...

@@You-Cant-Do-That. excuse me? I don't think you caught the sarcasm

Chad is his brother

People get confused about it because Chad is about 17 years older than Brooks and have gray hair. Their father passed away last year at age 91. The third drummer is John, another brother.

Pat was incredible! R.I.P.

Better band than you'd ever be in. Eat shit, ya nobody.

So edgy

@@anthonysundberg6861 This band is balls. Deal with it.

@@jburdsinfuse So douche-y

@@shantheman6879 dudes talking about groove family cyco while saying Avenged is bad... You're fuckin lost bro! Hahaha

As much as I love Garstka, 90 percent of the stuff he plays would never work in any musical context other than with animals as leaders. The older I get the less I care about technical drum wizards and more about drummers that have good songwriting skills. Also this is a 2 minute video of Brooks, go look up his Instagram, it shows how versatile the guy is.

It’s not just about playing the craziest stuff, he writes fantastic drums for whatever band he’s in while also being very technically skilled, he’s just a great musician and a very skilled drummer.

@@rippindrummer666 spot on, Brooks writes great drums that always fit the music very well while also being very technically impressive as well. He may not be the most technically skilled but as an overall package he does everything at a very high level, the drums on the stage were awesome while still being technically impressive and sounding great with the music. He just recorded the drums for their new album so I cannot wait to hear his drumming and what direction the band takes their sound after the stage.

Gonna cry?

@@melodica5407 Yes, a real tear jerker.

skill level bad religion is not even close to A7X

@@eldiablo3794 what a pussy

He left because bad religion got stale and he wanted to join a band that took more advantage of his fantastic skills and avenged was that band. The drumming on the stage album is better than any drumming he did for bad religion. You sound salty as hell too, bad religion is cool and so is avenged sevenfold. He drummed for BR for 20 years and truthfully the band didn’t take advantage of full drumming capabilities while avenged does exactly that. He gets to play far more complex drums now in a more popular band and likely make more money too.