Ross .I'm Alan Zukor. You work with my Nephew Joey Waronker. I was his his first drum teacher at nine years old. Taught him his first two years. He got so good so fast that I felt I taught him all I could . I then turned him over to my great drummer buddy Jim Carnelli who was much better at jazz then I was . I thought it was important for Joey to be more well rounded and be familiar with all styles of drumming. It was like God himself touched Joey's soul. It was literally astounding how good he got. He practiced and practiced & always nailed his lessons. I NEVER had to ask if he studied his lessons because it was obvious he had. I knew when he was 13nyears old this was goung to be his calling & his profession & livelihood. Joey made me so proud . We're going to connect this summer & I'm giving him my mint Peavey pro 1000 7 pc kit with a snare drum that will totally BLOW his mind and yours as well. I saw an interview with you & Joey on the way to a Roger Waters show in Sacramento. You asked him how he got started. He mentioned me in that interview. I almost shit my pants cause I never thought he would give me a cudo because I'm not Poccaro. But it was so cool. I'm in Reno gigging still at 74 years old.

Ross helped design Jeff Porcaro’s beautiful Gretsch kit that he used in the studio for the last couple years of his life. Dire Straits’ album On Every Street is a great example of this

Ross ! So happy to have come across your KZfaq channel ...This is Mike Pritchard ...I was the Gretsch Drum Rep in the early 80s in LA and I have fond memories of knowing you when you worked at Action Music and just starting your business.

This man right here is drum legacy. Dude is a true legend! He gave the drum sounds to all the records we love. That put him in the top place by far

4:48 - i had to use the space bar to stop/start the video just to take in all the records you've worked on. incredible.

I had heard from the Drum Doctor since the beginning of my drummer's life back in the early 90' back in France. Always remembering a picture of Ross showing a remo drumhead with a drawing made by Jeff Porcaro on the homage issue of "Batteur Magazine". I'd always wanted to know what was (and still is) to do this kind of work in L.A. Studios. It took 25 years to finally starting to hear from the DD thanks to KZfaq and nowadays technology. Thanks for doing this ! Abe's episode was epic, keep them coming please !

I have long been a fan of your work, Ross. We have never met, but I have been paying attention to your work for decades...because of the music you have been a part of...and because of how you are a part of that music. Credit to 'Drum Doctor' was printed on a whole heck of a lot of phenomenal records...for good reason!

I can't wait till the music industry or recording artists in general realize that real drums with NO CLICK, recorded on ANALOG tape is the only way a song can really come to life. Perfection is a cheap substitute for real beauty. Providing the drums that laid the foundation for the soundtrack of our lives is a pretty cool purpose to have on this planet. Cheers DD!

Awesome! A legend you are Ross, and I can't wait for Keltner pt. 2!

The legendary Ross Garfield!

Ross! the king of drums!!! THANK YOU ALL for this. In the studio, details matter because you come face to face with all of the imperfections of an instrument, weird squeaks, obnoxious clicks, resonances, etc. - stuff that you'd ignore if you weren't under the microscope of a Neumann on steroids :)

Thanks for all of the magic, brother! I’d love to work with you someday.

Razor Love. Nice touch.

I love learning about all these things, people, and hearing the stories. 👍👍👍

What a cool job! Thank you for sharing Drum Doc! I've been doing a little collecting too the past few years. Got a looong way to go though to ever reach your collection. LOL. I definitely get excited finding a rare drum and begging my wife to let me add just one more to the hoard....I mean collection. I might have a drum problem. 😆 Picked up a black Fibes snare about a month ago. Incredible drum! Thank God for Reverb! P.S., Would love to be a fly on the wall in your shop. Peace and love to you and all from Arkansas!

I dig you and what you do so much. Looking forward to more ! Joe in New York ( plus do you want to buy my round badge gretsch in Sunset satin flame ? Lol)

441 sets of drums. 🥰 That's insane! I love it.

Okay new bearing edge on that ayotte snare?? whats going on.... Love this!! Thanks Ross!!!

I can't wait for the episodes. Thanks for making them! I appreciate all you do, doc!

Ross is one of the greats!

😎👍🇺🇸🥁 ROSS!

Great video!! This is my new favorite channel. I might be mistaken but that looks to be the legendary Tama bell brass, used on Metallica, Nevermind and many other records, sitting right behind him. So cool!

this is all love, thanks!!

Incredible

For me the most amazing (snare)drum sounds are from Toto IV and Alex van Halen's snare sound and the bassdrum from Michael Jackson's Billy Jean. And finally i see The Face of The Drum Doctor. Thank you.

thanks for share!

God bless you Ross!

An amazing channel!! So glad this is happening! All the best for the future.

Along with Hal Blaine and a few other drummers, Ross has helped make Music recorded in L.A. and made his mark on music heard everydayn on the radio, in a car, in a bar, across the street, around the world...fucking crazy and amazing, keep it up Ross!

Your so awesome I love what you do. Really enjoy all the interviews. The drums always sound great. Keep up the great work very inspiring and educational. Thx

Drum passion. ✌️

LOVE it!!!!! Keep groovin' the passion dude 🤘🥁🤘DC

You sir, are the King.

My dream job.

I want to work there

🔥

whit karel i have e drum set from louie bellson from the eithies i will solldit

❓🤔❓ I just wonder how many of these famous drummers liked the sound of the drum sets they rented from ^him so much, that they asked to BUY the set from him? Or if he refused to sell the sets, how many of these drummers followed up with a request for ^him to set them up with an identical set to the set they rented from him?

“I worked with everybody that matters in music- but I could just go on.”

WAO

After repairing MANY drums from people who had just come from, or recently come from "The Drum Doctor", it's difficult to stay silent and let Ross get away with a finely fabricated reputation. Now, as far as tuning drums, Ross is excellent, and I give him complete respect for this, but that's where it ends. To me and others he is a con-artist, a liar, and often a drum butcher. On a weekly basis minimum, people would bring us instruments that Ross had said he had re-done the bearing edges, especially vintage instruments and their bass drums, but it was painfully obvious that he had done nothing more than lightly scuffed the bearing edges with sandpaper, telling the customer is was a sign of his hand finishing., and how the sound was miraculously improved. This was confirmed by three of his past, long term employees. Then there were bearing edges of both vintage and newer instruments that were completely destroyed, which brought up the running theme that no one really knows if he knows how to do many of the repairs or not, or if it's something like laziness and he just doesn't want to do the repair work. He's also notorious for taking a repair, breaking something, then telling the customer it broke for what ever made up reason, then having the gall to charge the customer for not only the original repair, but also fix or replace whatever he's broken. And while Hollywood certainly isn't know for it's innocence, it's no secret from his past customers and employees that his reputation was was simultaneously not just on his tuning skills, but from the "Doctor" delivering "prescriptions" in the bass drums of kits rented for gigs and studio work. If you don't want to believe any of this, don't, but it's a shame to the people who honestly try to do the best possible work to people's valued and loved instruments, and those who believe in tricking customers and not performing professionally. Sorry this is not the shiny happy response people will want to hear, but I can no longer stand to hear all of the glory stories about someone as corrupt as him.