Indie and arthouse films

Fender Bass

Mac G4 and Vista laptop PC

Bandzoogle.com

Exploring the city

The quest for great Mexican food close-by

Help-The Beatles

Hustle and Flow-Terrance Howard & Anthony Anderson

Almost Famous-Billy Cradup & Kate Hudson

The Gene Krupa Story-Sal Mineo & Susan Kohner

That Thing You Do-Tom Hanks & Tom Everett Scott

Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart-David Lynch

Magnolia-Tom Cruise, Jason Robards

Memento-Guy Pierce, Russell Crowe

The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, A Simple Plan

Mutiny On The Bounty-Chas. Laughton & Clark Gable

Mutiny On The Bounty-Trevor Howard & Marlon Brando

Mutiny On The Bounty-Anthony Hopkins & Mel Gibson

Early influences: Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Steppenwolf, Chicago, Alice Cooper, Black Oak Arkansas, Gino Vanelli, Doobie Brothers, Grand Funk Railroad, Rush,

Later: Kiss, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, The Dixie Dregs, The Eagles, The Producers, The Romantics, Tom Petty, Loverboy, ZZ Top, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Van Halen w/DLR, The Who

Later still: Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Replacements, Howlin' Wolf, REM, Robert Johnson, The Cure, Liz Phair, Big Star, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, The Strokes

Ghost Rider: Travels On The Healing Road-Neil Peart

Moon: The Life And Death Of A Rock Legend, Tony Fletcher

Traps, The Drum Wonder, The Life Of Buddy Rich- Mel Torme

Hal Blaine And The Wrecking Crew-Blaine & Goggin

No One Gets Out Alive, J. Hopkins & D. Sugarman

Memoirs Of A Geisha-Arthur Golden

Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antartic Expedition-Caroline Alexander

The Bounty, Pitcairn Island, and Fletcher Christian's Descendants-Borgna Brunner

Into Thin Air, Into The Wild, Eiger Dreams-Jon Krakauer

The Climb, Tragic Ambitions on Mt. Everest-Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt

Mexico-James A. Michener

Aztec, Aztec Autumn, Aztec Blood-Gary Jennings, Gleason & Podrug

A Confederacy Of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole

A Prayer For Owen Meany-John Irving

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Vater Suger Maple drumsticks

Bacardi Anejo Cuba Libre

CAO Anniversario box-pressed cigars

Genuine Mexican food

Fatback soul drummers with dynamics and grease

Rod Morganstein with The Dregs

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Art Blakey, Hal Blaine, John Bonham, Big Sid Catlett, Martin Chambers, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford, Vinnie Colaiuta, Mark Craney, Michael Derosier, Jerry Edmonton, Steve Gadd, Dave Grohl, Papa Jo Jones, Gene Krupa, early Tommy Lee, Chris Mars, Keith Moon, Rod Morganstein, Jeff Porcaro, Prairie Prince, Bernard Purdie, Buddy Rich, Danny Seraphine, Neal Smith, Ringo Starr, Clyde Stubblefield, Chick Webb

Promark Oak drumsticks

Weak well drinks

Cheap convenience store stogies

Taco Bell

Constantly wailing "technicians"

Rod Morganstein with Winger

Originally from South Carolina, I played in the Columbia and Charleston metros performing rock originals with Heroes. Next stop Atlanta, where I played delta and Texas blues with The Famous Hoods before joining Kingsized, a seven piece lounge-core band that earned critical praise and notoriety performing swing, jump blues, soul, torch and originals throughout the southern crescent. Between gigs, I split my time between Atlanta and Nashville, playing songwriter show cases with country artist, Greta Lee and producing music for the advertising industry. My live work with Greta Lee helped capture Best Country Artist, in Creative Loafing-Atlanta's 1998 survey. In the same period, my swing drumming was a factor in Creative Loafing-Atlanta's critical and popular awards to Kingsized for Best Live Act, Best Swing Band, and Best Rockabilly/Surf Band, establishing Kingsized's growing dominance while forging their reputation for record-breaking grosses at the local clubs.

Currently, I reside in Portland, performing and/or recording with Jennifer Lynn, Joshua James and The Runaway Trains, The Greg Earl Band, The Ward Stroud Band, Karaoke From Hell, The Reverb Brothers, The Blue Vein Miners, Jen and Tonic, John Soller's Blues Train, One Hit Wonders & Guilty Pleasures, and sit in with The Fenix Project, and Pilar French Intention. I am a member of The Last Regiment Of Syncopated Drummers, a marching drum corps dedicated to funky street beats and military cadences. In addition to teaching drums, I have joined the educational troupe Recycleman And The Dumpster Divers, a conservation-awareness band that performs a la "Schoolhouse Rock" at public schools and special events.

I’ve appeared as a journeyman with Robbie Laws, Franco Paletta and The Stingers, Marquee, and The Push Rods. I've received the Cascade Blues Association Muddy Award for Best New Band 2004 with Hoodoo Nation, and a Muddy Nomination for Recording Of The Year 2006 with The Ward Stroud Band.

I am available for performance and studio work at vince@vinceadame.com.

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