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Then he says 'I guess I'm going to have to call the other 19 and tell them that you have the job.'

'I figured, 'Well I just blew that gig.' Then Edgar says 'You're the 20th drummer I've interviewed for this job 'and I'm figuring that yeah, I blew it. 'We did the first two songs and then Edgar told me a couple of things I had done wrong,' remembered Leasure. With only 24 hours to learn the three songs, including a 20 minute version of Winter's monster hit 'Frankenstein', Leasure was a little nervous when the day of the audition found him alone in a rehearsal hall with Edgar Winter. Leasure has always been big on networking and it was his association with another musician that landed him the audition for The Edgar Winter Band. One Southern California show had Leasure drumming for another drummer turned front man, Buddy Miles. He caught the attention of the legendary blues man Albert Collins and played with the master on a series of shows on one of the popular Blues Cruises ocean liner trips. Leasure's reputation continued to grow throughout the 90's. If I wanted to work I had to learn all those styles.' 'Those bands were playing pop, rock and Top Forty stuff. 'That was a real 'on the job' learning experience for me,' recalls Leasure. The young drummer began by sitting in with various bands and eventually worked his way into paying gigs with several area bands. Leasure came into his own in his early 20's in a tightly knit Arcadia, California club circuit, where clubs like The First Cabin, Tommy T's and Steerburger offered live music seven nights a week. From a hard rock-heavy metal base that included Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, he progressed to the jazz fusion world of Chick Corea, Weather Report and Return to Forever.

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It was during his early years as a professional that Leasure began to expand his musical horizons. He was also active, during this period, as a music teacher and a drum line coach for numerous Southern California schools, including his alma mater Alhambra High School and the USC Drum Line. Leasure's passion carried him through his school years and, at age 18, to his first professional job as the drummer for the Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Corps in 1987. The first records I played to were by Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs and Sweet.'

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I would lock myself in our garage with the drums and the stereo and learn how to play by listening to 45's. 'I guess I knew at six that I wanted to be a drummer, but I never took lessons. Long time' long enough for Leasure to decide that he wanted to be a drummer.

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My mother bought me a more professional set out of The Recycler and those lasted.You can read Micheal's full biography HERE I basically destroyed those drums in a day. I set the drums up in our front yard and started beating on them and ended up putting my hands right through the drum heads. She went out and bought me this toy drum kit out of the Sears catalogue. 'It didn't take long for my mother to realize that I had some rhythm. At one point a Benny Goodman tune came on and the young boy, captivated by the drumming of Gene Krupa, picked up some pots and pans and began flailing away in accompaniment.

His mother was doing the dishes while listening to the radio. He found his life's calling at the ripe old age of six while sitting in his mother's kitchen. Mike Leasure was born in Alhambra, California in 1968.