{"id":29935,"date":"2024-07-17T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/drummer-simon-kirke-hopes-to-give-something-back-to-fans-at-rock-n-roll-fantasy-camp\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:00:37","slug":"drummer-simon-kirke-hopes-to-give-something-back-to-fans-at-rock-n-roll-fantasy-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/drummer-simon-kirke-hopes-to-give-something-back-to-fans-at-rock-n-roll-fantasy-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Drummer Simon Kirke hopes to “give something back” to fans at Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bobby Bank\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Simon Kirke<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>drummer for legendary rock bands Bad Company<\/strong> and Free<\/strong>,\u00a0is ready to share all he\u2019s learned over his more than 50-year career with campers at the upcoming Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kirke\u00a0has\u00a0done about nine previous camps, and tells ABC Audio that he got involved years\u00a0ago when he was touring with Ringo Starr <\/strong>and was asked by the promoter, who also ran the camp, whether he\u2019d be interested in teaching. He says the idea intrigued him.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know this sounds a little trite, but it was a chance to give something back to the fans and people who follow me and my bands over the years,” he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kirke can see how music fans get a lot out of the experience, sharing, \u201cWhen you get a chance to hang out with your ‘heroes,’ it’s wonderful. And once you put all that sort of aside, you want to learn from them.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the campers aren\u2019t the only ones who learn a thing or two at these camps.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I mean, I learn a lot by teaching,\u201d\u00a0Kirke says. \u201cWhen you’re trying to impart knowledge to a beginner or relative newcomer, it helps you hone your own knowledge, as it were.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He adds, \u201cAnd I do love doing it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp\u2019s Rock The Apple is happening Thursday through Sunday. In addition to Kirke, counselors include Foreigner<\/strong>\u2019s Lou Gramm<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Cheap Trick<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Rick\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Daxx Nielsen<\/strong>. More info can be found at\u00a0<\/span>rockcamp.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Bank\/Getty Images Simon Kirke,\u00a0drummer for legendary rock bands Bad Company and Free,\u00a0is ready to share all he\u2019s learned over his more than 50-year career with campers at the upcoming Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp in New York. Kirke\u00a0has\u00a0done about nine previous camps, and tells ABC Audio that he gotRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}