Barry Kerch Position: Drummer Profession: Drummer for Chart-topping Hard Rock Band Shinedown

About Barry Kerch
First the earth cooled, then the dinosaurs came........ then I hit my first drum. It has been a love affair ever since. I started at the ripe old age of 7 with a CB700 snare drum and a pair of sticks. It was a deal with my parents that I had to learn and perfect my rudiments before I could move on to the monster rock kit. 2 years and many lessons later a great thing happened on August 7th my birthday. I received my first drumkit. Immediately I set it up and began trying to wail along with Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast. From there I haven't looked back. I took tons of lessons and really learned to respect all styles of music and tried to apply them to my playing. I was a marching geek through elementary, middle, high school, and college at UCF (where he earned an anthropology degree). I am one hell of a lucky musician and have played in many bands until eventually landing the Shinedown gig in 2000-01. I learn something everyday and drumming is my passion. BK

Musical influences
Zepplin, Hendrix, Iron Maiden, The Police, James Brown

Favorite songs to perform
All of them!

Favorite places
New Orleans, St Augustine, NYC, Amsterdam

Favorite things
Trappist Beer, Cooking, My Dogs, My House

Last read
The Scarlet Mansion by Allan W. Eckert