You are very brave. Despite all warnings from the medias not to take ‘risk’ coming to China , you did it.I had been to China a number of time. It is probably one of the safest place on earth. Over here you will see friendly people, who want to take pictures with you, superb infrastructure, very conveniences to go around from city to city.All of my western friends who made visits to China came back with extremely high praises on China, on every aspect, such as friendliness of the people, the obvious and overt displays of happiness and satisfaction with their lives, the amount of true freedom enjoyed by the people and last but not least, the food.Some of the more outspoken western friends even adamantly condemned the lies in the reports in all of the western media.Have Fun.Bro.

Those of us who have "risked our lives" by going to China are highly amused by your perception, as an American, of what China is like. The contents of your "highly nutritious and healthy" food bag reflected the kind of disinformation most Americans are fed with. Most of the stuff can be found in most urban supermarkets in China, and more. As you have discovered, China is not the dystopian, bleak barracks desert some American media try to make it out to be. If you had more time, you would have discovered the real China, if you hadn't done so on this trip.

China is unknown to most in the West because the media has created a place in their minds that doesn't exist. China is an amazing futuristic country with incredible infrastructure. If i was younger and starting out again i would be making plans to move there.

As a teacher in China, when it is musical instrument week, I always show the kids videos of the best musicians for each instrument. Obviously, as Steve Moore is the best drummer in the world, I play his videos. The kids absolutely love him !

As a native of China, welcome to China and have a good time.

China is safe, well administered and impressively clean. I traveled 3000 km by fast train in China, the railway is elevated, we are seated at the height of the 2nd floor of the houses, which gives a bird's eye view of the backyards. It's always clean and tidy and I haven't seen any slums. In Xiangyang, I was really out of the tourist areas, it's the real China, very pleasant, beautiful and clean. I have a tourist visa valid until 2032, it's going to the USA that scares me, I've given up on the USA.

It feels like you haven’t tasted any of the thousands of delicacies in China, so you ate at McDonald’s instead? such a pity!

The show looked awesome. it's cool seeing you make new videos, and Your video quality is superb. I've lived in China 8 years and I love it. I'm always happy to see other people share their experiences of coming to China. It's really a massive country, and every province has it's own style and character and local cuisine. I hope you get the chance to visit again.

Many of the foods you bring can be purchased in China. I couldn't help but burst out laughing when I saw the food.

China is one of safest countries in the world .The streets are clean without homeless people, no tents along the sidewalks. No theft and robbery ，no assaults and shooting .It has the best infrastructure ,very convenient

I almost laughed my head off when you took out the food bag😂😂😂

I appreciated so much you sharing the trip to China. American medias usually tells us China is horrible places. Your video means a lot to those who never been there. I hope you will post more videos about your China trip❤

You have a great talent both playing and just talking! You're certainly not obligated to share that talent but I'm sure glad you do!

Loved these videos. I'm glad you were willing to play in a show. Sharing what you do is a blessing to others whether you realize it or not.

Congrats on the show! Great to see you back on stage. I’m sure it was an awesome show and quite an adventure.

Glad to see the update. Thanks for staying active for us. ^____^

C'mon now Steve ! When are you gonna share your interactions with the hospitable people, and the delicious food ? !!! It's alright, the CIA and FBI already know ! Anxiously waiting for part 3!

You have a gift and I'm thankful you share that gift! Rock on!

Great job Steve. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for sharing. Please make more videos of your visit in China. Show us the foods, high speed train, shops, airport, etc.

Fantastic seeing you back on camera Steve!! Good seeing you playing a little again!! Hope you’re well and would love more drumming stuff which I’m sure you’re working towards!! God Bless you!! Sure the show was epic and awesome!!! Stay safe and well in the meantime!!

Must have made you an offer you cannot refuse, that's one hell of a trip for one gig. Your versatile playing style is so unique, it brings automatic smiles. The more Mad Drummer in the world, the better.

MORE!!!......that was awesome!!

Hello from Australia! I love your videos bro. Keep them coming :)

I look forward to you bringing the charm of drums to China and having more performances in China in the future.

Your performance looked awesome man! Not just the playing part but also the expressions. You definitely have it in you.

You are like a mix between Tommy Lee and the Ultimate Warrior when you are on the drums. You and Rick have a special chemistry it just works. Thanks for the vid.

I’m glad you had a great experience. I lived in Cuba from 86-88, Korea from 95-98, the UK from 00-04, the Mid-East from 08-09, Germany from 15-16 and the UK again since 2020. Not all overseas experiences are great, as you can imagine, especially these days. Hopefully you have some memories that will stay with you. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Awesome look into China brother!

Oh my, I could not stop laughing for the food you brought with you ……. 😅😅😅

I watched both videos, what a humble honest way you did the videos thank you for taking us along. This was the first time i heard you talk haha i only knew your drum video's had a fun time watching

Glad you had a good time. As for food, you will easily find a lot of western food over there. McDonalds are everywhere. Kind of considered an upscale family restaurant (at least 25 years ago when i was over there- this may have changed). But you can easily find Chinese food that fits western tastes. For breakfast they'll do an egg wrapped in a tortilla that is just great. That is the usual fast food breakfast you find all over. Or go to 7-11. I so miss Chinese (and Japanese) 7-11s here in the US. They have the hot grab and go food there. You'll see these large white buns- they've got meat and stuff in them. Or some of them will have fresh made little breakfast sandwiches. Or sweet short grained rice wrapped in dry salted seaweed. Surprisingly good. There are a ton of bakeries everywhere too. Be warned, anything that looks like a jelly donut is a Red-bean filled thing that you will not expect and turn you off on Chinese traditional deserts. But the rest is pretty good and very westernish. Beyond that, Dim-Sum usually fits Western tastes pretty well. And standard boiled dumplings you'll find EVERYWHERE. Fried dumplings are great, along with pan fried buns. If you live in a large city in the US you should be able to find a place called Din-Tai-Fung. Check it out. The line is long, but it they are famous for their stuff.

Thank you for sharing your experience in China. Wish you guys could go back someday in the future. I gonna check out your performance at Bilibili,. See you there~

Hope you can post your performance at the show in future, as well as your thoughts and observations of life in China :)

Brother thanks for sharing your experience in china and what sounds like an epic journey!! I just wanna say its kinda cool that your real geniune and so down to earth, its very refreshing! im hooked on your videos, they make me happy.. thankyou :D

Looks like a life changer of a trip

Super !!!! Is there some video of the show ???

As a person born and raised in China, I haven’t even been to these places yet. That Soul/Spirit Retreat/Hermitage Temple looks nice and I wouldn’t doubt it’s one of the wealthiest temples in the world, probably got more money from worshippers than their mega church counterparts in the US

I've been a fan of you since you were the This Drummer is at the Wrong Gig days. I even remember Woodstick 2010. Anyway, thanks for all the fun memories of being "mad", I go back and watch the Rick K videos anytime I need a laugh or just to get through bad days. I have my Mad Drummer T shirt and thinking about getting another one. You'll always be my favorite drummer. Would love to see you go mad again. ❤

There are currently around 5000+ McDonald's outlets in China. 6,500+ Starbucks, 9,900 KFC, 1,528 Burger King…….Levi’s Jeans, GM, Ford, Apple Stores…… you name it and there’s quite possibly thousands of American brand’s outlets in China:)

Excellent upload sir

Great video! I was hoping to see some Chinese breakfast. Always love seeing you play and I have to say I've slowed down your videos to try and steal some moves because I think they are rad AF!

Nice to see you haven't lost it

You are a True person, and your soul fills others' with energy. Thank you sir !

Awesome video! Will have to go to China soon! LOVE THE BLOOPERS

Great video, both videos, actually. Would really like to see more of the performance-looked amazing!

What a cool stage. Wow

Did you bring gun and knife with you ? China is safe no homeless, no robberies, no drug addiction like the US or UK or Canada.

I'm honestly impressed by the time and effort you put into these videos ... Keep it up! 💛

Awesome! I dont suppose you can post the show? Love to see the whole performance!

You went to Hangzhou! Beautiful City!

An exciting film!👌

Thx for sharing 😮

Hey Steve, glad you enjoyed your time in China. It is a place I have always wanted to visit, partly inspired by my study of martial arts back during my teens and 20s. Of course, this interest competed heavily with my ever growing interest and enthusiasm for playing guitar. I can can understand touring taking a toll on your enjoyment of playing. I am fortunate to know some musicians in my area, a few of them are long time professionals and have toured with some major acts. They have mentioned from time to time that touring is a hard thing. So, I can only guess how much harder it is when you've lost the drive/enjoyment/hunger of playing music as well. To this, I have a suggestion, or maybe and idea for you to consider....maybe something to explore and re-enjoy the love of playing, but in a more intimate way. (Not like that, get your mind out of the gutter. Ha!) Ok, so this idea is kinda in 2 parts... The idea is that the first part help cover for the second part in a couple of ways, which I think you will get as I explain it. Ok, the first part is... how about a sponsored drum clinic tour,? But, it could be broken up, or down in segments in a given region for just a couple of weeks at a time. You could be in a particular region and do these clinic at a few cities over a couple of weeks, maybe a music stores who could host you..... It could also include jam sessions with some of the local musicians who would attend. I believe once George Lynch did a guitar clinic tour where he found other musicians to play the other instruments on 1 or two of his/Dokken songs instead of having other touring musicians with him. I seem to recall at least one video of a stellar performance by such people. Obviously, this does take a bit of a risk, but that is part of the point... to just jam with some musicians who love playing music, who would also love the chance to play a song or 2 with you, and probably would never get the chance to do it otherwise. I am sure you could find some sponsors for just such a type of tour. To give people more of a chance to prepare,, you could post a list of songs that would comprised the 'setlist' of songs people could choose from to play with you. It doesn't have to be super huge,, but a decent size list of varied songs, maybe include some of the ones people have seem in your videos, that they could take time to learn prior to your arrival. Then, at the event a few musicians get a chance to play 1 or 2 songs with you over the course of the clinic, or during a jam after your 'teaching' part of the clinic. I think the thing for this part for you is, to do it in bursts of a couple of weeks at a time. That way you aren't being trapped in a major amount of time over months, playing these clinics week after week for 6 months. Just a couple of weeks, then a break fro a couple of weeks, etc... and you could play this however long you feel like sustaining it. BUT, that's not all.... remember I said there was a 2nd part...and this is the part I think would make it the most fun for you while mattering the most. This part is meant to happen concurrently with the above clinic tour. Ok, now for the fun stuff. This might require a little research on your part prior to arriving in each of the clinic cities. The idea is to find some open mic type gigs and show up to sit in and play there....maybe undercover/in disguise. This would be just for fun, hanging out, and playing musicians with other people/musicians who just want to have fun and play music. I know it would be fun for people if you just showed up to sit in a play songs with them, throwing in the tricks you do I also think it would be a little fun for you as well.... being on the musical edge just sitting in with people playing songs. It would be an adventure with people of all skill levels playing a varied array of songs. Of course, it could even be more fun if you were to do this UNDERCOVER/IN DISGUISE. You'd be sitting in playing some song, then all of a sudden, break into some tricks to see peoples' reactions, or if they even could guess it is you. or how long it takes for them to guess it is you. The whole point of for you just to have fun with music with who really love music, but you probably wouldn't get a chance to jam with otherwise, and it would be the same for them. To connect with other musicians over your mutual love of music. Of course, there can be all the usual musician joke bantered back and fourth. "Hey, what did the drummer get on his IQ test?" "DROOL!" ;-P LOL.... This could also make for some interesting content for your channel. Maybe have someone who is willing to come along and video it for you... like bootleg undercover sessions or something. The overall key is this should be about music and fun for you.. and the people you meet along the way. This is just a crazy idea I had while watching your China vid after you talked to us. If anything, maybe it will help inspire you with different ideas.... who knows. I hope you will be able to find something in it that you can use in one way or another, but not creepy like Blondie. Haha... see what I did there? Anyway... thanks for sharing the China trip video with us. I, as with others I am sure, really enjoyed it. I hope you recover from your jet lag soon. Cheers, Tim

Hi Steve, I wish I could have seen the show! Thanks for the kick in the @ss. Time to pull out the keys and get busy again… 🎹

i wish you show more of the scenes in China especially what you ate.

China has a yearly rock music competition, a TV show series, which is popular nationalwide, and wish to watch your performance there too. having a nice day!

i didn’t realize you went to Hang Zhou till I saw the lingyin temple and the west lake. Welcome to my hometown!

China , I quess drummers are more familiar with the word China or Chinese because of the cymbal itself . Anyway just wanted to tell you that after seeing you playing the Tama Kit with those Sabian's actually inspired me to get a mix if AA , AAX , HHX though they are all xplosion crashes accept the AA which are AA Rock , they work for any music really. I love Sabian. Wow that whole place was packed to the brim to see you ! That's gotta feel good ? Best of Luck Champion !

That looks like it was a great time! Will we be able to see the show a some point?

Nice trip... the temple is one of most famous in the entire country, Syrian president Assad was there a few months ago.

I immediately came in to watch the part 2, after part 1. Couldn’t stop laughing, it is so amusing 😂😂👍👍

I like this. Great videos. Thanks.

🇺🇸 Well done and on your return, American raised American know how, enjoyed your adventure a worth while story! 🇺🇸

Steve, if you would please consider it. Maybe make a video part 3 and provide some of the show footage.

Steve. Enjoyed your videos of your trip to China. Really miss seeing you beat the skins with Rick at Knoebels in the summer. It’s never been the same or as good since! Rich Moore

I saw U on the Bilibili new year show , definitely a good show!👍🏼

Good show

很有意思的博主，会持续关注你的

Your an awsome drummer and fun to watch..😂😂😂

Love ya brother! Screw the haters, they’re just jealous. You do you!

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 love this trip👍

What about 'thank you China for giving me an opportunity to learn something new'?

I just watched Bilibili's New Year show reply two days ago and wondering who that crazy and awesome drummer is, and here we go, I saw the drummer's video!!! 😊

7:18 that laugh 😂 dude I’m so glad you had a great time in China! If I found a McDonalds abroad I would be so happy too 😝 much love man!🖤🖤🖤🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

That sounds like an interesting trip ! And you got to meet/play with the other legend: Nyango Star. 🙂 (I don't know the other player, sorry). Glad you enjoyed it.

When you pulled out your hometown food from your suitcase, it reminded me of my fathers hahaha

That was you! I've watched that show.

I can't wait to get home after work to watch the video!!! 3 Hours to go...

there should be a road movie to be made about this trip.

You never mentioned in either video what city in china you were in. (You probably didn’t know…)But after seeing the tourist spots you visited, I see you were in Hangzhou. That’s where I’ve been living for the past 3 years. You know they have even more KFC here than McD’s. I hope you actually tried some of the real local food though. It’s a whole lot better than that junk you brought. 😂

Always enjoy your videos but this was awesome what a cool tree to play in front of all those people who just wanted to see you that must have felt great. Well-deserved sir keep it up. You inspire me as an older drummer not that you're an older drummer I meant I'm an older drummer you know what I meant kind of s*** I didn't mean to say that all right well keep it up yeah great video man seriously

Nice conclusion and I'm glad it went so well. NOW, get back to some Brick Maiden or other play-throughs of metal material!!! PLEASE!!! :)

Good video !! 👋 🇨🇦 will there be a video posted of the show you played? Or ?

I laughed so hard whn you showed the bread you brought and said ate at McDonald's. Its like Chinese going to the America and bring own cokes from China

Looks like a bigger shindig than the WV State Fair. Mountaineers never lose their mojo, bro.

3:06 west lake is described as heaven because it has fog when it is raining.

wow you went to bilibili show , that was so cool ~ I watched bilibili show every new year

The bag of food made my day :)

Hey Steve. Can you do a tutorial on how to play the drum with this rare style like doing round moves with your arms?? Saludos desde Chile

Wow , temple built in 326 still standing solid 👍

😂 hahahaha i burst into tears when I saw the loads of foods that you brought to China.

wow

Welcome to China ❤🇨🇳 Will search Bilibili for your performance 🤓👍👍

有趣😊

Man you looked 20 years younger after the show 🥹😭

Looks like an awesome trip. Wish we could have seen the whole concert. (P.S. A couple apples wouldn't have killed ya). 😉

nice background music ～

Welcome to China! We love our country as much as you do Please come and understand the hospitality of the Chinese people for yourself, and do not believe the malicious reports in the media.

OH damn, I watched the "This Drummer Is At The Wrong Gig" like a decade ago. And all the sudden I start wondering "Are they the same guy?" And OMG, Welcome to China.