Born in Los Angeles, California on April 3, 1943 Laurin Rinder knew by the age of six that he wanted to be a musician. At seven, he was playing the trumpet. His father, who was an understudy for Bing Crosby during the 1930s and 40s, encouraged Laurin to play and later built him a drum set out of trashcans and corrugated boxes. Soon the trumpet gave way to the saxophone and then finally the drums and the reason for this was that Laurin felt that the drummers in his junior high school band were having more fun. I asked him if the drummer really had more fun and he emphatically replies, "Yes-absolutely. Drummers always have more fun."