Moore was soon taking lessons from the legendary drummer Johnny Vidacovich who Stanton credits as teaching him the findamental patterns that he has built his drumming style around. He also learned a lot from listening to Zigaboo Modeliste, drummer from the Meters. "New Orleans drumming is more about feel than anything else. That's something I learned from Zigaboo. On one hand many of his grooves are quite sophisticated and not easily learned. But his playing has a very linear quality at the same time which I have tried to incorporate when I play a street beat."
It was his diverse musical roots and influences that soon lead Stanton to playing in a wide array of funk, jazz and klezmer bands in New Orleans. Although most of his time is taken up being the driving force behind Galactic, Stanton also plays in his own Moore and More lineup along with jamming with other bands when in New Orleans which has garnered him the nickname by his bandmates 'Stanton Moore the drumming whore."
"So when we started to get into this style of music, we were checking out bands like the Meters and James Brown and all that stuff.
Then I slowly got into stuff like Lou Donaldson and Grant Green, and tried to expand with our own voice from there. Just kind of digest all that. And
now, we feel like we've digested that and are trying to go in our own direction. What I'm trying to do is go back to the roots of the rhythms of New Orleans -the rhythms of the Mardi Gras Indians and the brass bands- and do something that's my own."
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Stanton grew up in Metairie, New Orleans so he was exposed to the music of the city through his father. While his original drumming style was based on hard rock (he once drummed for band called Oxenthrust), he soon found his love of the funk. "I've been around [the New Orleans music scene] my whole life. I'd go to the parade's and hear the bands passin' by and during Mardi Gras you hear music like Professor
Longhair, the Meters no matter where you go. No matter if you're into it or not, you still hear it. Then eventually I started getting interested in it. My dad
was a really big fan of all Mardi Gras music so we would listen to that music together. Then pretty soon I realized who it was I was listening to and the
significance of it." Being around the heavy rhythms of New Orleans his whole life led to the inevitable...Stanton took up the drums. "I always loved the drums. I played all the time but I was just into having a good time and not really working very hard and not being very disciplined. But then I decided that if this is what I wanted to do, I better get serious about it." And that's what he did! 
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