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Chad Gaylord Smith (born on October 25 , 1961 in Saint Paul , Minnesota , USA) is Drummer in the Rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers . He joined the band after Jack Irons quit because of the distress and chaos over Hillel Slovak 's death. In 1993 , he released "Red Hot Rhythm Method", an educational video for aspiring drummers. Chad was married in ), Ava ( 2000 ) and Cole ( 2005 ). The two divorced but he has recently remarried to an architect named Nancy on May 8, 2004 in Hopetown , Abaco s, Bahamas . When not onstage or in the studio Chad enjoys scuba diving, baseball, basketball, and riding his Harleys (he owns a black Road King that he has personally done modifications on, and in a 2006 interview with Modern Drummer magazine, said that his 2003 100th Anniversary issue Soft Tail was his "main mode of transportation"). He also lives in a 1929 Spanish house that Cary Grant and Randolph Scott lived in together from 1932 to 1936 . Ex- Deep Purple singer Glenn Hughes recorded an album in Chad's "home studio" in late 2005 - early 2006 . A . In addition to his endorsement deal with Pearl, Chad also has his own signature "Funk Blaster" sticks manufactured by Vater Percussion, and has had a line of signature cymbals manufactured by Sabian which were notable for their "odd" sizes (an 18.5" and 20.5" crash). Although he is mainly known as the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chad's drumming is featured on over a hundred albums, not including those recorded with Red Hot Chili Peppers. He has also toured the world extensively performing drum clinics, and recently did a series of clinics with one of his drumming heroes, Deep Purple's Ian Paice . SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
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