About Me

My name is Andrew “Diablo” Erich. I’ve spent over 20 years of my life as a performing, recording, and touring rock drummer.

My experiences began with my first thrash metal band Controversy in my Mom’s basement at the age of 13. I was playing parties and clubs by the age of 15, touring U.S. clubs at 16, and a bonafide local “rockstar” by the age of 17 with a punk/grunge/alternative band called the Rhino Humpers.

From there it’s a long tale of adventures, touring all over the U.S. and Europe, meeting childhood heroes, recording albums and videos, and I even spent 9 years pulling double-duty as the drummer and manager of the most successful band I have played with, Reno Divorce.

It was at the age of 32 that I realized there wasn’t much of a future as a career musician and got off the rock n’ roll crazy train. Since then I’ve considered myself “retired.” Although I have performed here and there, I realized that being a “rockstar” has an expiration date.

There’s more honor in stepping away and being happy with what I have accomplished than there is in being that jaded old “coulda been someone” guy who hates doing the gigs, but keeps playing them because he doesn’t know any better. I’ve met lots of those guys on my travels and I had resolved at a young age to never become one myself.

There are a lot of stories to tell, and those stories as well as my current thoughts and experiences are what this blog will be all about.

Nowadays, I am a bit more humble. After my “retirement,” I went back to school and got an IT degree. I currently work as a Clinical Applications Trainer at a hospital near Seattle, Washington. I still get in front of people and perform (as a trainer) and I make training videos, online courses and tip sheets that are an awful lot like the band websites and flyers I used to make. So I do a lot of the same stuff I did when I was in a band, just with 100% less screaming fans and beer on the job.

This website is intended to be as complete of a record of my music career as I can make it. As such, it will be an ongoing project, with many updates to come in the future, so stay tuned if you’d like to see more.

Thanks for stopping by to check it out!