[Canada's Nickelback in Maine]

Former 3 Doors Down drummer Daniel Adair is the latest addition to Canadian post-grunge rock group Nickelback. He replaced Ryan Vikedal who left the band last year. The band is currently on tour and Andrew Neff of the Bangor Daily News recently spoke with Adair. He had this to say about how he started drumming:

... Adair, who first started practicing with drums when he was 13 after listening to his sister's copy of the Hemispheres album by Canadian supergroup Rush and finding himself transfixed by the ability and sound of Rush's drummer.

"Neil Peart of Rush was the reason I wanted to learn to play drums," he said. "I'll never play like him, but I've wanted to learn all I can and practice as much as I can to be as good as I can be." ...

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