Artist Recovery Podcast

Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.
This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.
If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.”

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Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 1 | Clementine Moss: From Bonham to Buddha—Drumming, Spirit & Truth

January 02, 2026 • Rich Wright • Season 2 • Episode 1

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What happens when hard rock meets stillness?When power, rhythm, and spiritual inquiry collide?
In this deeply intimate episode of the Artist Recovery Podcast, host Rich Wright sits down with Clementine Moss—founding drummer of the all-female Led Zeppelin tribute band Zeparella, author of From Bonham to Buddha and Back, and a multidisciplinary artist whose life bridges rock performance and spiritual practice.
Clementine’s story is not about overnight success or tidy transformation. It’s about late beginnings, internal listening, and the courage to follow truth—even when it contradicts expectation.

Born in Southern California and raised in a household filled with music but not musicianship, Clementine didn’t discover the drums until her late twenties. What followed wasn’t just a musical awakening, but a complete reorientation of identity. Drumming became her language—one rooted in time, structure, mathematics, and intuition—while writing and meditation remained her compass.

In this conversation, Clementine reflects on:
• Growing up as an achiever and seeker in parallel
• How silence, reading, and writing shaped her inner world
• The tension between spirituality and rock culture—and why they’re not opposites
• Discovering meditation alongside music, including a life-altering 10-day silent retreat
• Why creativity isn’t about being seen—but about being true

Clementine’s voice is grounded, reflective, and honest—offering insight not just for musicians, but for anyone navigating reinvention, recovery, or the quiet knowing that there’s more waiting on the other side of fear.
This is not a performance.It’s a remembering.

Timeline:
00:00 – Meeting Clementine Moss
04:10 – Childhood, reading, and early sensitivity
11:30 – Achievement, identity, and internal pressure
19:40 – Spiritual curiosity before religion
28:15 – Junior high, depression, and self-attack
36:00 – Writing as survival and self-expression
44:20 – New York City & creative freedom
52:10 – Discovering drums later in life
1:01:30 – Seeing rhythm as blocks of time
1:12:00 – From silence to stage
1:23:40 – Spiritual practice meets rock performance
1:34:10 – Why drumming feels like home
1:46:00 – Unity, presence, and what music is really for

Connect with Clementine:
https://www.clementinemoss.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clementinemossmusic
FB: https://www.facebook.com/ClementineMossMusic
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@UCZdYUfNZ7MifaGf0mPa22aw

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