Arj Narayan Clobbers His Drums, and Cancer (Westword 3/25/2024)

by Adam Perry for Denver Westword 3/25/2024

From the sound of Fast Eddy‘s music, which falls somewhere between hard-driving metal and the swaggering ’70s rock of the New York Dolls, you would think the brash Denver band must have gotten its name from the late, great Motörhead guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke. However, Fast Eddy drummer Arj Narayan, an Albuquerque native firmly planted in Colorado since transferring to Fairview High School as a teenager, paints a more colorful picture of the moniker’s origin.

“It was kind of a nod to an old friend who was a cab driver who used to pick up my bandmates,” Narayan explains. “He used to sell them…illicit substances.”

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