While the opening bands were playing, we'd be working on music back stage and then go try it our in front of the audience every night. It's a great way to get feedback. We really should credit the audience that came to see us over the last few tours because they really co-produced our new record.
"Chad Matthew Butler" is the drummer for the band Switchfoot which he co-founded along with Jon Foreman/Jon and Tim Foreman in 1996. Butler lived in Amsterdam for a few years, but he and his family later moved to San Diego, California where he now lives with his wife Tina (whom he married in 1999), his three children, Evan (born in 2001) and Dylan, and his daughter, Charlotte (born in summer of 2007).
As a kid, Butler dreamed of being a doctor but in Junior High, he developed an interest in drumming when he received his first drum set. He met future bandmate Jon Foreman on their high school water polo team and the two became friends.
Butler is a '97 UCSD Alumni Association/UCSD Alumnus and earned a History of Science degree. Chad played in a variety of local bands throughout college, before joining with Jon and Tim Foreman to form the band Chin Up, later to be known as Switchfoot.
Butler cites Stevie Wonder, Foo Fighters, The Beatles, The Police, and U2 as some of his larger musical influences. He also endorses Tama Drums, currently playing their white Starclassic B/B set with chrome hardware. Butler is also endorsed by Paiste cymbals and pro-mark drumsticks.
More Chad Butler on Wikipedia.We've grown to be like brothers, and when you spend that much time on the road together there's no way one guy is going to get a big head about things and not be brought down to reality by the other guys. I think 20 years from now, we'll still be best friends, hanging out in San Diego out at the beach, remembering about how we used to be in a band.
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