drum kit

“And he had a reputation all through Mexico as being like one of the best drummers and so by her telling us that and showing pictures of him at his drum kit, it was really inspiring, it’s like, ‘Oh s—, grandpa was in a band, we can too.’”

As the band’s drummer, Suzette generally kept a lower profile than Selena; but behind her drum kit, and her camcorder, she captured her sister’s fire and verve more authentically than anyone else had before.

A studio percussionist named Jamey Tate will be rocking the drum kit, with Hurwitz conducting.

“I only rock,” Starr quipped before assuming his position at the drum kit.

“Thank you for being an irrepressible force behind the drum kit for Maiden for 42 years and my friend for even longer,” Smallwood said, adding that he and the band’s remaining members will miss McBrain “immensely!”