It took me being persistent, but Fred was patient and we were finally able to get an episode recorded. Before SNL, Portlandia, and a decade leading the Late Night with Seth Meyers house band, Fred Armisen dropped out of art school to play punk rock in Chicago — because for him, the kit always came first. He joined us on the Drumheads Podcast to talk about what drumming means to his identity as a performer and why, no matter how far the career has taken him, he never really left the drum chair behind.