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Drummer Jason Sutter Talks Landing the Gig With Marilyn Manson, Recalls Strange 1st Requirement
Marilyn Manson (left); Jason Sutter (right)
Interview with Jason Sutter
Date	August 19, 2019
Source	Ultimate Guitar
Interviewer	Steven Rosen

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Not many drummers can lay claim to the fact that they’ve played with both Marilyn Manson and Cher but Jason Sutter can. He has chops for days and beyond all that, he is one of the coolest dudes to ever walk the planet. Here he talks about some of the gigs he’s landed over the years.

You got your first touring gig with Juliana Hatfield.

I got a call from a friend from Potsdam. My friend was telling me about this drummer from Boston named Stacy Jones who is now Miley Cyrus’ music director and killer drummer and was also the frontman of a band I played in with him called American Hi-Fi. My friend said I’d be perfect for the gigs going on in Boston because everybody loves this Stacy Jones kid but he already has his own band called Letters to Cleo. There were a bunch of bands he was subbing with but if you came to Boston, you’d join those bands right away.

You moved to Boston and got the gig with Juliana?

My friend sent me the Letters to Cleo record so I could listen to it. The band was great but the drumming was like, “Oh, yeah. This is exactly how I play.” I got two auditions with Tracy Bonham and Juliana Hatfield. The management flew me up and put me up and by the time I got back to L.A., they were like, “We want you to do this gig.”

What kind of kit were you playing?

I got a DW kit. I got a white marine pearl finish and nobody had that because it wasn’t hot yet. Nobody had it but I did. We did the Conan O’Brien Show and Max Weinberg had the same kit. When I rolled in and set up my kit, he looked over at me like, “You motherfucker.” It was pretty funny. He was a snot and was definitely not cool with the fact we both had cutting edge finishes.