David Elitch

David Elitch
David Elitch
Instruments Drums
Associated acts The Mars Volta
Daughters of Mara
Website The Mars Volta official website

David Elitch (aka Dave Elitch) is an American musician best known for his work with the American progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Dave grew up in Sebastopol,CA and later moved to LA to join Los Angeles-based metal band Daughters of Mara before joining The Mars Volta in a touring capacity in 2009, following the departure of Thomas Pridgen. Elitch made his live debut with the band in Oslo and completed the second leg of the Octahedron tour.

Regarding his role within the band, Elitch states that he "walk[s] the line between [former drummers] Jon Theodore and Thomas Pridgen because I think that's how I play anyway and it's the best thing to do for the music at this point in time. So I’m trying to accomplish that by just keeping it just really solid, where the guys can feel comfortable and when I have a chance just play out and do some chops I will. But that’s not my priority. [...] Right now I’m just doing the European tour and the Australian tour and then they’re going to take a break because it's the end of the tour cycle. Omar [Rodriguez-Lopez] directs a lot of his own movies so he’s busy doing that."[1]

Regarding his entry into the Mars Volta, Elitch states that:[2]

It came through mutual friends. [Mars Volta bassist] Juan Alderete called a friend of mine to do the gig and he couldn't do it so he gave him my name. When Juan called, I was actually in the middle of doing a session. I was walking into the studio and he called me and was like, "Hey, I need a drummer for this Mars Volta tour we’ve got coming up." I was like, "Are you kidding me?!" I had heard rumours about Thomas Pridgen not doing it anymore but they asked if I could get it together right now. I was like, "I’m doing a session." So I did the session all day and then Juan and I met up at my studio that night and jammed for three hours. I knew their first album, De-Loused in the Comatorium, fairly well so we jammed mostly on that. After the jam he asked me if I wanted to do the gig.

Over the next two weeks, he came over to the studio several of times a week where we jammed, went through songs and I eventually went down to Omar's house in Mexico. Omar, Juan and I rehearsed for about five days and then came back to Los Angeles. At that point I hadn't even met Ikey, Marcel or Cedric! When we got to Amsterdam, it was the first time I'd met the whole band. We had two rehearsals with the entire band, went through all the songs twice and that was it. Then we were playing the first live show. I had to do my homework and just know the songs backwards and forwards and just show up and play.

Equipment

  • DW Drums
  • Sabian Cymbals
  • Remo Heads
  • Vic Firth Sticks
  • Protection Racket Cases

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