Sick Drummer interview w/ Tomas Haake - Part 1

[mattnsim]

I'm a guitarist, but Thomas is a true inspiration.

[aileanwazere]

@mattnsim then you sound like the kind of guitarist id want to jam with!

[mattnsim]

@aileanwazere when you moving to brisbane?? lol

[aileanwazere]

@mattnsim haha you never know, i live on the isle of skye. Shite for good musicians .

[mattnsim]

@aileanwazere the best musicians are in sweeden :)

[tehprojekt]

Argh, I wish everyone weren't just yacking away in the background

[jewfro123]

*sick ass drummer*

[cracksh0t1]

lol one of the tags on the video is 'ass'

[dablacksolja]

jajaja

[KnoffMan]

i was totally @ that show w ministry in denver.

ministry isnt my bag, but they're dangerously loud and bright on stage. it was like a hallucination or something.

[ZhasX3]

He doesn't count??? I"M NOT ALONE!!! It's music you gotta feel. And as he says, if he's thinking he's not feeling, and it screws up his playing. I love this guy more and more..

[ObsidianImages]

@ZhasX3 Yes, brilliant.

[riomariucci]

How do you say his last name? I've always wondered that because I hate saying names wrong haha

[RonnieIsGrumpy]

I'm from Sweden but never heard Haake himself pronounce his sur name, but I pronounce the A's as the A in Neanderthal (didn't really come up with a better example). The E isn't silent. It's like Hak-eh. Hope it helped.

[riomariucci]

It helped haha

[quisquefaber88]

its tomas Haake, not hake, sounds like 'open wide and say aaaaaaah'

[SOILWORKRULES]

hawk

[cucuk666]

HA A KE!

[Cannibalblast]

What? Tomas "Heyk"?

[Skamveid2000]

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA i know i almost got killed the first time

[PagesENDmusic]

cant someone tell them pricks in the backround to shut the fuck up, annoying

[Sadist102]

Its sucks being Scandinavian in America:P Both my first name and last name have been pronounced about 13 different ways each:P I don't really care though

[forklift77]

word,I'm Polish,the way Americans pronunce my first name and last name is ridiculous by far.

[krakhaid]

Although, when people are reading my name off a list, I accept any pronunciation involving the letter "H."

[krakhaid]

My last name is German, so different rules might apply, but mine is spelled "Haase" and it's pronounced "haahsa." like "ha ha." The syllable on the end is pronounced, but it's very subtle.

[kalldin]

hawk-eh

[utsawin09]

i thought it was pronounced ha-ake, like heartache, but HA- ache

[mjonas10]

The second a isn't pronounced, but otherwise you're close, except the weight is on the e at the end, so it becomes Hea(rt)-chE

[SRSpOoK]

I thought it was pronounced "hark".

[qwasd0r]

Tomas "Hake" omgawd.

[Drummerforlife98]

I know I noticed that too. I think it's pronounced Tomas Hawk. Haake, well you get the point

[musicmantrev]

i thought i heard someone pronounce it "hay-kee" haha. i would really like to know how to pronounce it though.

[ltholtz]

You pronounce it like "haw-ke" with a "strong" e at the end, like in ear :P Kind of hard to explain.

[musicmantrev]

so basically you say it like hawky?

[ltholtz]

Well, no xP Not like in the bird hawk, im sorry I confused you. Its more like haaaakE. Damn, its really hard (you pronounce the aa like in "hard" btw ;D) to explain from swedish to english. It doesnt really matter anyway :P

[musicmantrev]

so like "hockey" then?

[Pesseh]

Hockey is quite close, if you're American. The last syllable is different though, making it Hah-ge(h).

The letter K is not aspirated (hence the G) and the last syllable is pronounced very short. You sort of stop it short right after the E letter.

[guidomiller]

Fonetically it would be "Haahkuh", so with a long "aa" (as in "aah", not "ay"), and the end is a very short "uh" as in "huh?"

Hope that makes sense. =)

[plopenstien]

i thought it was hahkay like?

[SeverTheDream]

HA like haha..... ke .. like ke-vin

Haake.

[KarsiaDave]

SON OF A BITCH!! This interview would be awesome if you could hear it!

[clipsryan]

Looks like the back room at the Gothic or Ogden in Denver. Yeah those back rooms are incredibly small and not the rooms you see with shit loads of food and drink. They're also right below the very back of the stage so that's why is so loud.

[sanderchip]

i use to date this black chic and we would get a kick off when i would tell her "babe give meshuggah nuggah

[thedevilscolt]

yes, those cock suckers in the background should shut up.

[Remokari]

Tell the guys in the background to shut the fuck up!

This is a LEGEND speaking!

[musicmantrev]

those guys talking are probably his band-mates lol.

[Benjemima2220]

wtf is with the assholes talking in the middle of an interview i can hardly hear thomas

[roasticle]

bad lighting bad sound :(

[andotoldo]

Can be an idiot and ask what the song at the beginning is? Really like and have the feeling I should already know it!

[Stickalas]

Its Bleed, on an ablum called ObZen

[holykimi]

it´s pronounced ME SHROOM AH !!! :)

[Benjemima2220]

no its mesh ooh gaaah

[Mugenloo]

Psylocibe Cubensis ftw :D

[plopenstien]

i thought it was haa-kay...

and do you pronounce meshuggah like mesh-u-gah or meshoogah??

[ghoawaynetcabo]

Hahkuh. Mesh'oo'gah.

[godofdrums]

It's pronounced like hawk correct?

[Kafe420]

No. "Haaah-kuh"

[rustytheginge]

tomas HAKE??? LOL!!!! it's tomas hah-kuh innit lol!! stupid American s hahahahaha love Meshuggah

[jondabitch12]

theres to much shitty noise going on in the background

[Graffitone]

2:50 :)

[beanmongrel]

well thats not how to pronounce his name but ok

[DJCrazyface]

I find it extremely funny that the members of Death, Black, Hardcore, and just any type of 'metal' are so chill and cool in real life when put in comparison with some thankless-to-be-famous softer bands... How in the hell does that shit happen?

[Thundermaned]

Its awkward, but logical :) people who either listen or make metal, are awesome people, because they know whats best ;)

[DJCrazyface]

Uh huh... Plus, I think metal bands, as they are not exactly mainstream or anything, have to deal with the fact that those fans that they do have are few and far between the swarms of 'pop' fans. They understand, much unlike Chris Cornell, that the only reason they are playing on stage is because there are that few people willing to see them.

That, or that reason you said. =D

[mbmf1547]

the intensity of the music consumes their energy and leaves them humble and friendly... (just a theory haha)

[bluebunny61]

It's cause they let the music and act speak for itself, and aren't full of themselves, like bratty pop stars. They simply don't need to be full of themselves to look strong or cool, like them.

[ShitCrap]

Oh wow, swedish people can speak without retarded accent. Are you people really that stupid?

[jaredmetalhead666]

is he even sweedish, his name gives it away, his voice doesnt

[TherealTriggen]

They probably just trained altering their accents towards an american style, swedish english accents truly suck. Trust me i'm swedish myself and any swede would agree with me.

[Enemyofreali7y]

Because they have been in this country for a long ass time lol

[schwarg]

Theres a couple interviews with him speaking swedish on youtube

[mjonas10]

Actually not much about his name gives it away tbh. Haake isn't a Swedish name.

[FTF96]

Is he even swedish? Sounds solid American to me

[midihc]

they are swedish but their music sounds like its from jupiter lol

[Redspy27]

And Tomas(drummer and writer of the lyrics) is very good at english;) I mean look at his lyrics for god's sake!

[xfubar]

Yeah he's extremely fluent in the English language, better than most people who learn it as a native language which is quite impressive.

[the686man]

dude, he doesn't even have an accent.

[midihc]

he saves his accents for the first and third beat of the measure

[kungmat]

haha xD

[uv777]

a classic reply of a true Mesh fan!

[RedOnChrome]

seriously the best reply EVER!! love you man!

[MunkyCZ]

I have his drum stick from their concert in Prag!!!! YEAH!!!

[8stringerr]

prove it bitch

[MunkyCZ]

Ok, I have no problem with that

[trickmast]

wtf are those morons in the background doing jumping up and down

[Damien333]

tell those fags in the background to stfu

[omgnuub]

qft

[eurologic]

i thought it was "Harrr- keeyy"

[barrymorrissey]

if you were to type it in english the way it is pronounced it would be Hawkay...I've met him a couple times and this is how he says it. Trust me. He named one of his snares the "hawk" so he could call it Haake's hawk so it would sound silly like "hawkays hawk"

[Elmerfudge641]

hake?

i thought it was pronounced hawk?

[Generalsnusarn]

No. It's pronounced Haaaaaaaake. Like long A's.

[whoandtheha]

He seem like a pretty cool dude.

[mpeskett]

I don't like those questions where the answer is gonna be bleedin obvious. Like "What do you think of Denver?". I mean they're ok intro questions I guess but it's hardly like he's gonna badmouth the place is he. Soon as he asks about counting though, that's the stuff I love to hear talked about Meshuggah songs.

[burpeemetaldrumguy]

great interview /..and the interviwer is kind and not a dick like some tend to be. tomas is amazing great to see this.

[TommyDole]

a machine.

[3rdEYEsqueegie]

ah to be so good and so humble... lars would be proud HA

[schandorff666]

lol i'm here with "Tomas haajk" or what did he say? :)

[Cannibalblast]

Tomas "Hake" I believe.

[muddyeyes16]

Good interview.

[BandRescue]

I've only been able to get 53 seconds of this video 3 times I've been back to watch it! Not sure what that's about...

[sickdrummerdotcom]

Not sure... I just watched the whole thing again...

[Catch33]

your sound is terrible. what a shame, an otherwise top interview.

[sickdrummerdotcom]

Sorry about the sound man, this interview was handed to us one day before and we had to make do... There will be a part 2 soon.

[EMG33]

What an awesome / humble motherfucker.

[metalherbert]

God i love that man! My fav drummer! Also Meshuggah are the best band ever!

[satricon]

first ? haha i had to do it, thanks for the up