DRUMS!

This page is currently being updated! Please come back soon for more updated photos!

I have now become a KAT affiliate! To purchase your own KAT product, please use this link:

http://www.alternatemode.com/cart/index.php?mktsrc=jsamuels

Pics from Radio City Christmas Spectacular 2014 and 2015:

1/1

"Toast" The Musical - Bloomington, IN:

1/1

"Sister's Follies" at the Abrons Center, NYC:

1/1

"Song Of Solomon" Kit Set-Up:

"Song Of Solomon" Set-Up at the Wick Theatre, Fl:

"Up Here" Rehearsals, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego:

1/1

Here are pictures and a video link (check it out!) from Sing For Your Shakespeare in Westport, CT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd4PEkBKJ5c

1/1

Pics from a Clinic I did at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers:

1/1

And a Clinic I did at Agoura High School (Beyond the Gig seminar):

1/1

Beautiful cabin in the middle of nowhere working on an Album with Derek Gregor, Selda Sahin and Eric Krop:

Always love playing with The Patriot Brass Ensemble!

Heat and LIghts (Radio City) Below:

Above: The Radio City Orchestra for "Heart and Lights"

Above: Me with orchestrator Christopher Jahnke and the legendary William Brohn!

Above: The Radio City Orchestra rehearsing for Heart and LIghts.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular 2013:

1/1

Above: Rehearsal room at Radio City. There are two percussion chairs, and most of the show is played on electronic percussion. They are called Mallet Kats, and they can do almost anything!

Above: Rehearsal. And a great shot of the other percussionist Mario DeCiutiis :)

Above: The Orchestra (I'm on the far right).

Above: The pit set-up. Notice there is a live timpani on the right for a few live glissandos. There are also some live toys on the music stand on the upper left of the picture.

Various pics:

1/1

Below is a cool pic taken at a gig at 54 below:

Check out these pics and a video below of the new compact kit TreeHouse sent me! The entire kit fits into one 18" case by fitting the drums into one another, making them easy to transport and set up. This ultimately saves time, space, and your wallet (if you live in NYC you can take the entire kit on the subway and spare yourself a cab fare)!

These drums are ergonomic, sound amazing, and look beautiful! Every drummer should have a set like this!

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

Josh Samuels demos his TreeHouse Drums Compact Kit

Check out Joshua playing an excerpt from the Broadway Touring production of "Anything Goes" on his Compact Nesting Kit.To see more pix, and search our entire TreeHouse archive for your favorite sp...

1/1

-----(Left) These are all the drums set in one another and put into an 18" carrying case. The case does not hold the hardware, but you only need a few extra pieces of gear with this kit. The snare and rack tom both attach to the BD, and there are attachments for two cymbals off the BD. The floor tom has legs (I requested this for this model), so the only extra hardware to carry are the 3 floor tom legs, 2 small attachments for the snare and rack tom, 2 small cymbal stand attachments, a hi hat stand, a kick pedal, and a stool. Oh, and your cymbals of course. Amazing!

(The "minimal" kit is show above left on the red carpet. The other pictures with this kit have additional cymbals and stands).

Here I am on the "Anything Goes" show drums (Yamaha kit):

My swingin' set-up for Anything Goes First National Tour!

--Me and Trey Anastasio at a "Hands on Hard Body" event! It was such a wonderful evening for me to meet a musician I so admire and adore. I was fortunate to cover some rehearsals for Shannon Ford (drummer for Broadway's "Hand's on A Hard Body") and actually get to play Trey's music for him!

Check out this video of us recording at Sun Studios. This is the touring band for Jersey Boys, and I was lucky enough not only to tour with them, but to record in this famous studio:

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

The band in Memphis' Sun Studio

The band spends a late night recording a little Christmas album. Special thanks to Matt our engineer pioneer.

Take a look at THIS rig!

This is Shannon Ford's rig for "Chaplin" which I get to play as his sub. It took some time getting the choreography down...

***I am a big supporter of Billy Miller's "The Miller Machine" - check it out on his website! I use this device all the time and on the site you can find pictures of me and my rigs with the miller machine!

www.themillermachine.com

Here are some new videos of me playing djembe and kit with this amazing singer, Andres Quintero!

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

Andres Quintero - Ordinary People (John Legend Cover)

Andres Quintero's cover of "Ordinary People" by John LegendFor more videos and music visit www.andresquinteromusic.com

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

Andres Quintero - Incomplete (Backstreet Boys Cover)

Andres Quintero's cover of "Incomplete" made popular by the Backstreet Boys.For more videos and music visit www.andresquinteromusic.com

Here is a picture from the drum booth at Godspell:

Listen to this Phil Collins tune from an album I recently recorded with Jaron Vesely:

Dance Into The Light

Jaron Vesely Album

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

Check out the rest of Jaron's album, "Coming to My Senses" on Itunes!

Also check out Matt Doyle's debut album, "Daylight" where I laid down some tracks, also on Itunes!

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

Joshua Samuels Drumming!

Sound check at a recording session in Maryland.

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

Baraka May - Get Over Her by Jordan Beck and Jonathan May

Baraka May sings "Get Over Her" by Jordan Beck and Jonathan May, with backup vocals by Mazie Wilson. Jonathan is on piano, Allison Seidner is on cello and Joshua Samuels on drums. This was the fin...

Check out these videos from a concert of "Jawbreaker! The Musical"

Music by Jeff Thomson and Jordan Mann!

James Sampliner MD

Micah Burgess Guitar

Joe Wallace Bass

Joshua Mark Samuels Drums

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=306960C381BFB635

Some tunes from projects I've played on:

The Trouble With Doug

Feel Better

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

Composed by Will Aronson and Daniel Mate. This song is off the original cast recording.

In Due Time

Bluegrass Winter

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

A tune from Aaron Rosenberg's album.

Ah-Cha, Live

YEM (Cover)

You need Flash Player in order to view this.

This is the end section of the song, the jam section. One of my favorites my LA band, Ah-Cha, used to play. We loved covering Phish. This was recorded at our CD release show.

If you know me, you are aware that I am obsessed with drum/percussion set-ups. If you don't know me, well, now you know.

Here are some pictures of some of my favorite rigs I've played:

"Honk!"

Two River Theater Company, Red Bank, NJ

1/1

"Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris"

Two River Theater Company, Red Bank, NJ.

"You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown"

Two River Theater Company, Red Bank, NJ.

This set-up was really exciting; always running back and forth from the drum kit to the vibes or glockenspiel. What was especially fun was playing the glockenspiel and drum kit at the same time.

What was also cool about this particular production was that the band "appeared" above and upstage, in a box, as pictured here. Sometimes we would not be seen, and then all of a sudden we would appear out of nowhere above the stage.

Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party"

Circle In the Square, NYC

This theater is so open and vibrant I really had to muffle my toms. See how the wind chimes are behind where I sit? I would love to one day have a set-up that is completely circular - someone take out those chairs and let Josh bring in some timpani!

"The Marvelous Wonderettes"

Westside Theatre, NYC

Ah, the V-drums. This was an interesting set-up because the drums were plugged into the sound system, and they miked the cymbals and extra percussion. Normally, as when I was subbing at Altar Boyz, an electronic drum-kit has cymbal pads as well. One whole electronic kit. So, needless to say, playing on a V-drum kit with live cymbals was a very different experience than one would be used to.

"Once on This Island"

York Theatre, NYC