411 - Craig McIntyre Pt. 1: Playing With Goo Goo Dolls, The Melting Pot of Josh Groban's Band, The LA Cache

Working Drummer

Craig McIntyre has had a long tenure as the drummer for the Goo Goo Dolls and has also performed with Josh Groban, Vertical Horizon, Idina Menzel, Deana Carter, Seal, and many others along the way. After building a very LA-centric career, Craig now lives in Portland Oregon.

In this episode, Craig talks about:

• The combination of festival and theatre work that comprises the Goo Goo Dolls’ yearly schedule
• The challenge of being present in the music with your fellow musicians, and how different situations can make it difficult in different ways
• How to exit a gig in a way that leaves future possibilities open, and not take personnel changes personally
• How the gig you’re doing can be a status symbol or platform, apart from whatever the actual music is
• The musical cross-pollination that happened among the various members of Josh Groban’s band
• The counterintuitive aspects of what the Groban gig required of the drummer