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Are you sure that he wasn't wearing headphones or in-ear monitors? Otherwise he'd have to have perfect timing and start off the songs at the exact speed of the samples being played, which seems a bit too much. He could have also had a metronome that has different set speeds on it so he could stare at the blip. Or maybe the click was coming through his stage monitor.
I have a very basic idea of how to control samples while playing drums and I'm pretty sure it involves things like electronic pads and drum triggers. It's extremely common in metal bands for the drummer to connect triggers to his kick drum, so every time he plays the kick drum, the trigger picks up the vibration, sends the signal to the module which plays a sample (most commonly a "click" sound), sends the sample through the PA so the drummer and the audience can hear the kick drum(s) cut through the down-tuned guitars and bass. So maybe Bassil Silver was doing something along those lines.
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