Olsen, Gunnar

Gunnar Olsen (born New York City, NY) is an American drummer and producer. He began making a name for himself drumming with The Exit, a power trio from Brooklyn, that he co-founded. In 2004, the band signed to Wind-up Records, and toured the world opening for bands such as Muse and 311. He quickly became known for his hard hitting, improvisational approach to Rock / Pop drumming.

Source: gunnarolsen.net

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Performances

^{Performed 1 times live with Bruce Springsteen.}

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• 2019-04-00 Stone Hill Farm, Colts Neck, NJ

Recording

• Western Stars (Bruce Springsteen, 2019)
  • "Tucson Train" (drums)
  • "Sleepy Joe's Café" (drums)
  • "Drive Fast (The Stuntman)" (drums)
  • "Sundown" (drums)
  • "Stones" (drums)
  • "There Goes My Miracle" (drums)

Media

History

In 2014, drummer Gunnar Olsen received a text message one morning from audio engineer Ross Petersen asking him that he comes in the afternoon for a recording session at Springsteen's ranch in Colts Neck, NJ. "That text changed my life to say the least," Olsen wrote on his website in 2019. He drove down from his home in New York, and when he got there, it was just Petersen, who's a friend of his, and producer Ron Aniello in the studio. As expected, Springsteen was not present. "They explained they had these songs and they wanted to try out some drum ideas", Olsen told Uncut. "I was just going to give them some options and ideas". He didn't expect that any of his parts would end up being released, or that a Springsteen album was in the works. But then Springsteen randomly showed up at the studio and soon it became clear that the music that Olsen was contributing to was already highly developed. "The stuff I was playing was stuff they'd been working on for a little while", he said. "It had a direction already. It wasn't like starting from scratch".

After spending the day at the studio, the session ended and Olsen was thanked without being given any further information. "I guess [Springsteen] liked what I was doing, so they kept calling me back. I did four or five days over the course of a couple of months. Some days it would be a few songs and some days it was only one. Sometimes he was there. Sometimes we were adding stuff to songs and sometimes we were all recording together. But I didn't think I was going to be on the record".

Gallery

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