Nout
is a musician who started playing the piano at the age of 8. Playing the
drums has always facinated him, but at home this was no subject of
discussion. When moving out to a student appartment, he buys a synthesizer to
be able to continue playing music. He joins a band with some old high
school mates, but the drums continue to appeal to him. At the age
of 25, time has come to rent a rehearsal room with a drum kit to really
start experimenting with this instrument. After 9 straight hours of
drumming it has become clear: this is really the intrument for
Nout.
The very same day his first drum kit is purchased, the first
rehearsal takes place of a band called "Touchdown". This band
consists of Nout, his brother and some old friends. Diana joins the band in
1994 and 6 weeks later Nout plays his first gig ever with Touchdown as a
support act of "The Radios" in front of a couple of thousand
people.
Nout starts taking drumming lessons with Anthony del
Monte (Herman Brood, de raggende manne) and later switches to lessons at the
'Rhythm Factory'. He plays live shows with Touchdown for a couple of years but
leaves the band in 1998 to start playing in 'Lime', the band that will later
become GRAZE. By playing in a number of projects and with different musicians,
he develops his drumming in different musical styles, but keeps mainly focussed
on rock and funk.
Equipment:
Nout's drum kit is a Yamaha Recording Custom kit (cherry red) with a 22" bass, 10", 12", 13" and 16"
toms, a
Yamaha Birch Custom Absolute 14"x7" snare, customized with Maple wooden rims and as reserve snare a Mapex 14"x5.5" phosphor bronze from the black panther series.
The hardware is also Yamaha. The bass pedal is a Premier twin
pedal, used single. All heads are by Remo, Pinstripe on the bass drum, Emperor coated on the snare and on all toms. De cymbals are all by Zildjian:
14" K-custom Dark hi-hat, 8" K splash, 10" K splash, 16" K-Custom Fast crash, 16" Oriental china trash, 17" K-Custom dark crash, 18" K-Custom Session crash and a 20" K-Custom
medium ride. The drum stool is by Roc 'n Soc and Nout plays with Vic Firth American
classic 5A sticks. He uses Westone in-ear monitoring, connected to a Spirit Folio Notepad, on which he receives his monitor line and to which also his Tama Rhythm Watch is connected.
Nout
is a musician who started playing the piano at the age of 8. Playing the
drums has always facinated him, but at home this was no subject of
discussion. When moving out to a student appartment, he buys a synthesizer to
be able to continue playing music. He joins a band with some old high
school mates, but the drums continue to appeal to him. At the age
of 25, time has come to rent a rehearsal room with a drum kit to really
start experimenting with this instrument. After 9 straight hours of
drumming it has become clear: this is really the intrument for
Nout.
Nout starts taking drumming lessons with Anthony del
Monte (Herman Brood, de raggende manne) and later switches to lessons at the
'Rhythm Factory'. He plays live shows with Touchdown for a couple of years but
leaves the band in 1998 to start playing in 'Lime', the band that will later
become GRAZE. By playing in a number of projects and with different musicians,
he develops his drumming in different musical styles, but keeps mainly focussed
on rock and funk.
