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1. Why did you start this crazy endeavor? Why'd you get into drumming?

For the power.

Studied blast beats at the Sorbonne, didn't know where else to take that

Congenitally unable to not swing arms wildly / other lemons-lemonade situation

Fascination with snare strands.

My knocking speeds up, heard the joke, seemed like a natural fit.

My life is already a wreck so [shrugs vaguely].

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2. What kind of sticks do you use? Most of the time, what really feels natural to you.

double 5A, one end zirconite tip, the other, monkey's paw

one stick [literally any], one concert bass drum beater (Stravinsky)

one concert bass drum beater (any), one triangle beater

5As, but ten pairs simultaneously, you figure it out

no sticks, just an tremendous supply of water balloons

I fall a tree on my drums, all my gigs are one note long

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3. What are you using for a bass drum?

19" rhombic triacontahedron

it's a bongo

idk cow shaped, I want to get full use of the entire hide

20" but made of 2mm balsa

I don't use a bass drum, I'm not an animal

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4. What's your favorite rudiment?

Paradiddle (first note only)

inverted flam (grace note only)

Four stroke ruff (inverted with main note in the middle)

Single ratamacue

9 stroke roll (normal double-stroke sticking, all stick shots)

Splatahahas (normal pataflafla except... now that you mention it how the hell do I do that)

Ma'am drag (avant garde— a person in Victorian women's garb to drag you through the mud by one leg)

Pusillanimousdiddles (unknown, everyone has been too afraid to demonstrate)

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5. What is your favorite jazz tune or standard to play?

Anything where you can replace "you" with "ewe" in the title.

Skiddlyap dap slap a mama hoedown McGillicuddy BLUES (Paul Whiteman book)

Why Did I Let You Live? (foxtrot)

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl (rhythm changes)

I Just Can't Stand The Way You Breathe

What Did You Do To Me (ballad)

I Got Two Legs Too Few And That's OK By Me (Hoagy Carmichael)

Peddle That Snake Oil Someplace Else, Mac! Ya Goddam Bum! (Al Jolson book)

The Memserizing Pinwheels Of Misery (Michel Legrand)

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6. What drum books would you say you use the most?

Nothin' But Moeller (And I Do Mean N O T H I N G)

Stickings, Stickings, Stickings! Stickings!

Reading Text in 1/16 Time - vol. 2, Adding Rests and Ties

175 Ways To Write The "Money" Beat

Seriously, The Literal GD Papal Bull of Bebop Drumming

Hymander Lipschitz's "With It" Book of The Society-Band Drumming of Today Eschewing The Cretinous Innovations Of One Eugene Krupa (©1934)

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7. What's your favorite band, any genre!

Reptilicus Fantasticus Supremus (the folk duo)

Colin and the Glandular Saliva Orifice Magnate

Would That Thou Doth Unto Thine Betrothed Bequeatheth Rising Unto Hisseth Thronuth So Wrougheth [etc etc, dies] - (any Metal band)

Grampy Hosahyaiah's Skeeter Holler Jiggledy Banjo Twangin' Band o' Possum Rattler Fishtrap Skeeter Band Boys (self-explanatory)

Foreigner

Bloödehole (first album, Of Thee I Vivisect)

Professor Funk-Kong's Freaky Groovitanimus Funkucopia Syndrome (a funk band, apparently)

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8. What is your favored drum shell material?

secreted resin

shrapnel-distressed chrome, really shot to hell

illegal endangered bristlecone pine

solid nitrogen

hewn from Mt. Everest summit schist

repurposed medieval reliquary

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