Chad Smith

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.