My name is Michael Palotas. I have been drumming for over 30 years in many different bands and setups.
I started playing the trumpet at the age of 8. Soon, I (and others as well 🙂 ) realized that trumpet was just not my thing. So I started hammering away on my mom’s pots and pans and finally bought my first drum set at the age of 13. Never looked back since then.
My kit(s)
My main kit is a 4-piece Gretsch Brooklyn 22/13/16 along with a 14″x6.5″ Ludwig Black Beauty Snare and Meinl Byzance cymbals. I use Audix drum microphones for recording and live.
In my practice room, I play a Roland TD-27 edrum kit which I absolutely love (and I was very skeptical about edrums before I purchased the kit…).
I also have an old Pearl SLX which I sometimes pull out just for fun. A piece of advice: if you don’t keep your very first kit, you will regret it. Mine was a Sonor Champion that I sold to a classmate. Wish I had kept it.
Some samples
Manic Mondays Sampler
Shake your body (Jackson5) /
Dig In (Lenny Kravitz) /
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Whitesnake – here I go again
Billie Idol – Rebel Yell
Sweet – Fox on the run
Michael Buble – Crazy little thing called love
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the dark
Black Crowes – Hard to handle
Alanis Morissette – You oughta know
Nelly – hot in here
Sass Jordan – Make me a believer
Stevie Wonder – Superstition
U2 – Mysterious Ways
Red hot chili peppers – Give it away
LIVE
Killing in the name – with Bourbon Myths (Cassette Club Madrid)
Dead or alive – with Bourbon Myths (Cassette Club Madrid)
Feliz Navidad (live) with Bourbon Myths
Michael Palotas – Teichweg 8 – 8853 Lachen, Switzerland
palotas@gmail.com