WE ALL KNOW JAMES HAS CALLED HIMSELF A LIFER AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE OUR CRAZY STICKMAN BEING APART OF SUCH AN AMAZING ROCKBAND THE SCORPIONS HE HAS PROVEN TO BE A KICK ASS DRUMMER...... SOME OF HIS PREVIOUS PROJECTS LIKE: KINGDOM COME, KOTTAK ATTACK JUST TO NAME A COUPLE WELL HERES A LITTLE ARTICLE ON JAMES! HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY: ~NM~ When a middle-aged glam rock drummer throws his back out picking up a box of clothes on family moving day, it seems like the setup for an easy punch line — something about aging rock stars surviving decades of hedonistic self-abuse only to be crippled by domesticity. But in James Kottak’s case, it doesn’t quite work. For one thing, the back injury is actually a vestige from his younger days, an old drumming wound — of sorts — from a not-so-bygone era. “I was playing at a bar, which we all did six nights a week, forever,” he remembers (having just returned from a visit to the chiropractor). “It was with a club band back in, like, 1981 or ’82. And I sang a lot, so my head was always up. And I remember I dropped my drum key and I leaned back to pick it up and just, zap — there went the third and fourth lumbar, totally whacked out. And I could not stand up, could not do anything. I finished the set, but it was just a night of the worst pain ever. It’s been an ongoing thing.” But if the steady upward trajectory of his career is any indication, Kottak is not a guy who’s about to roll over and die over something like a few blown discs. And you can bet nothing short of spontaneous combustion is going to keep him from finishing out a set. “I can count many times where I got some sort of stomach virus in Russia from weird food or something and been playing and throwing up in a bucket at the same time,” he says. It’s rock and roll, baby.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:09:50 +0000
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