On the day of his 51st birthday, Todd Sucherman released his first solo album called 'Last Flight Home.' On the album, Todd is paying homage to his musical influences and all the ten tracks on the album feature Todd's vocals, his drumming and more percussion.
Leading up to the release, the STYX drummer published a lot of warm-up photo's of the stunning he kit that he used during the recording sessions for 'Last Flight Home'. On April 14 he published the official video for the opening track Last Flight Home. Watch it below in a cool edit where you see Todd recording drums, percussion and singing the vocal part.
Todd Sucherman - Last Flight Home official video
Order Last Flight Home 'Last Flight Home' is available on Todd's webstore on CD, High Resolution audio files, and 180g vinyl. Two posters and signed drum heads from the sessions are also available!
Todd Sucherman - Last Flight Home session clip From Todd's YouTube: A session clip with three orchestrated tom parts. This was from the “Last Flight Home” recording sessions several months ago with JR Taylor engineering. It was always fun to crank up these through the speakers and I had to be careful not to make them too loud in the final mix!
The photos We have collected some of the photos Todd posted during the recording sessions for 'Last Flight Home'. Here is a Facebook post from a week ago where Todd talks about the 'snare chorus' for the third track on the album Ad Lib Everything. Check Todd's facebook page for much more posts about 'Last Flight Home.'
The “snare chorus” used on the track “Ad Lib Everything” from Last Flight Home: There was a “circus” type roll at the...
And for the fun of it, we've added three videos from Todd playing at The London Drum Show in 2014.
Todd Sucherman - Live at the London Drum Show Part 1
Todd Sucherman - Live at the London Drum Show Part 2
Todd Sucherman - Live at the London Drum Show Part 3
Todd Sucherman plays and uses
Promark - Todd Sucherman Signature SD330W Sticks
Remo drumheads
Clear Ambassadors on Toms (top and bottom). Ambassador Bass on Gong drum. Powerstroke 3 on Bass Drums. Coated Ambassador on top and Hazy Snare Sides on Snare Drums. Clear Ambassadors on Rocket Toms.
