Godsmack's Shannon Larkin Praises Sully Erna

BERLIN, GERMANY – OCTOBER 16: (EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE) Drummer Shannon Larkin of the American band Godsmack performs live on stage during a concert at the Columbiahalle on October 16, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Frank Hoensch/Redferns)

Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin had much praise for singer Sully Erna.

Larking said on ‘The Jasta Show,’ “[Sully’s] one of those dudes, he’s a musician like us, but unlike me, anyway, he can just pick up — like he said, ‘I’m gonna learn to play piano.’ And three years later, he’s f*cking Elton John. That dude could pick up a f*cking saxophone and be Clarence Clemons in two years or something; he’s got that talent.”

He continued, “And when he got really good at piano, well, as a vocalist, you also know that piano doesn’t lie. If you’re off a millimeter, it’s very visible. So he got way better as a singer, and his brain’s changed. Everything happened.”

Larkin added, “And most rock singers like Sully, they usually go down as they get older, because it’s your throat. It’s not like our drums or bass or whatever. But he gets better. And so that’s something, man.”