2017.01.13 - GN'R Social Media - Interview with Frank

Transcript:

Frank: I started playing drums around the age of 14. My father was a Latin percussionist, so that was always a percussion in the house, [?], congas, bongos and stuff. And I first heard rock music, my sister had brought home '45 of Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody and for some strange reason I thought that KISS was Queen cause KISS looked like a band that would play that kind of song. So I saw KISS on TV one time so I asked my dad if I could go see them, they were playing Madison Square Garden in December of '77. And my dad said yes, surprisingly. And we went and saw the band and that was when I knew I fell in love with music that night. I was 11 years old when I took naturally to drums, so I sat behind a full drum kit when I was about 14 years old. Got my first drum set around that Christmas, around Christmas of '79 or '80 or something like that and I've been playing since then.