19 - Being Around People Who Inspire You

This SLAM Summit's featured guests are two great drummers from two great European Progressive bands: 

Alexander Skepp of Gosta Berlings Saga and Georg Edert of Elder. 

Gosta Berlings Saga have a new 2025 album called "Forever Now." You MUST check it out as soon as you finish listening to this discussion.  

This one is also special on the SLAM side because Jack Mangan is joined by two brilliant SLAM Band cohosts: Mark Pruett, and Sheila Unwin, Ed.D. 

Lyrics reference: Elder 

Quotes: 

~When times are tough, you look for those moments that you can sort of stay in for a while and just be there. And this album sort of became that for us.

~I do struggle with going back to a rhythm of practicing coming from tour when everything's super structured. And then you're at home, and there's no tour manager telling you to get up at 8 and go practice. You have to do that yourself.

~Something that I look for everywhere in life really is just being around people who inspire you.

~5 cooks alone cooking for the whole crew.

~Mark tells a great story about Steven Tyler and Joe Perry (of Aerosmith) getting on each others’ nerves.

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