Around the time Clementine Moss took her first drum lesson and attended a silent meditation retreat, her father died suddenly. Those experiences helped shape the paths she would spend years exploring.
Clem joins Jay and Gary to discuss From Bonham to Buddha and Back: The Slow Enlightenment of the Hard Rock Drummer. As the drummer in Zepparella, she has spent much of her life immersed in loud music. Her memoir also follows the quieter work of paying attention to her thoughts, habits, and responses to loss.
The conversation explores how music and spiritual practice meet in her life, what writing helped her recognize, and why personal growth can be slower and less tidy than a turning-point story suggests. There is also plenty of room for the pleasure of making music, the details that carry a story, and laughter between the larger questions.
What We Explore
* Taking up drumming and meditation as an adult
* Her father's death and a period of change
* Playing Led Zeppelin's music with Zepparella
* The relationship between music and spiritual practice
* Writing the memoir and looking back with perspective
* Attention, self-reflection, and old habits
* Sound and storytelling
About Clementine Moss
Clementine Moss is the drummer in Zepparella, an all-women Led Zeppelin tribute band, and the author of From Bonham to Buddha and Back: The Slow Enlightenment of the Hard Rock Drummer. She also writes the Bliss and Drumming blog.
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