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Drummer 2009 - Present

1. Five special guys, feeling good together… That’s what Patrick Carney, drummer for The Black Keys, perceived in his mind’s eye one snowy February afternoon in 2009. “Dan (Auerbach, vocalist/guitarist for the Black Keys) was leaving on tour to support his solo record, and I wasn’t going to have anything to do for a while,” says Patrick of his impetus to start this new band. He immediately established a psychic link with old friend Jamie Stillman, better known as the drummer in both Columbus, Ohio’s hirsute lumberjacks Teeth of the Hydra and Kent, Ohio’s popular art-school dweebs Harriet the Spy.

Jamie liked the idea of a band dedicated to good feelings, and thought their mutual pal Jon Finley, former drummer for Kent, Ohio’s legendary show-offs Party of Helicopters (for which Jamie played guitar) and current singer/multi-instrumentalist for Kent, Ohio’s lovable ne’er-do-wells Beaten Awake, might be interested as well. Via three-way telepathic hook-up, Jamie and Jon discussed the plan with Stephen Clements, drummer for Akron, Ohio’s blustery train-wreck Houseguest, knowing, as they did, that few men were more skilled in the subtle science of feeling good.

Now Patrick had four of his intended five. Four drummers, not drumming. Patrick would play bass, Jamie guitar, Jon would sing and play guitar, and Steve, keyboards. But, now, who would drum the drums? What of a band of four drummers, without a fifth to drum those drums? The answer appeared in a radiant fever vision, alighting gently upon all four brains simultaneously: the perfect fifth for this proposed super-group was Greg Boyd, late of Cincinnati, Ohio surf-rock band Ghostman & Sandman.

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