Ken Hada Music is a place to share my music experience. Although some people know me as a photographer, I am a drummer. I played in a few bands in Junior High and High School. I was lucky to study with some great drum educators such as Rick Latham, and Roy McCurdy, and had two drum mentors Roy Burns, and Murray Spivack.
Eventually, I formed a band with some members of my High School drumline in the late 1980s. Our band is called Shoot The Moon. and we even got to open for the Pixies on their first US tour.
Even though Shoot The Moon never became a big hit, just being in a band was one of the best experiences I ever had. We did many shows in Orange and LA county., did a TV show, got national radio airplay, and produced 6 or 7 CDs (that I am still proud of today). Eventually, we decided to put time into having families and the band went on the shelf.
I took a long hiatus from the drums, and I talked about the reasons why in the video that John Stamos convinced me to make. And decades later it was my daughter Kate Hada who got me back on the drums. Her show choir needed a drummer. So I dusted off my music-reading chops and played for a year with my daughter.