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The Diamond Simon and the Roughcuts experienceParker is, in many ways just right for the Roughcuts. This is evident in how well he gets along with the Roughcuts personnel. When asked what he likes about working with this band, he says, “Not only do I genuinely like everybody in the band, which is rare, but everybody is so open to trying different styles of tunes. I think it’s that we’re about the music. Nobody’s sitting here going, ‘We want to be the next Dave Matthews.’ Nobody’s trying to be someone else. I think we’ve outgrown that or gone down the road too far to know that you can’t be nobody but yourself.” What Parker likes about making music“The collaboration with people, putting the music together, you know, the discipline of it.” You can certainly hear the discipline in Parker’s tight, measured application of drumology with the Roughcuts. “Every time I work with people I learn something.” Philosophically, Parker believes that music played well can touch the soul of the hearer. “Its akin to a priestly rite in that regard. You don’t know what a guy [in the audience] may be going through…but you can say, ‘hey, I touched that guy.’ Maybe for a while it does a troubled person some good.” Parker’s Projects:He’s branching out into playing guitar, composing and writing. This is new territory for him, which helps keep things exiting. The results of this quest for fresh stimulation have produced the 2000 released solo CD, Deep Hunger currently available on The Orchard label, and a project with Jeff Ball, Reverence, in 1999, and plans are afoot for a second solo CD project in 2007. Of course he’s been in the studio with the Roughcuts where he has laid down tasty, masterful tracks.
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