Welcome to the new site

UPDATE: Naturally, there are some problematic things— a lot of my images from the old site are behaving strangely, so the older posts might not look real great. I’m probably going to be forced to […]

Triumph of the worst

UPDATE: Toning this down a bit— mainly removing a very unkind assessment of the American electorate— and moving on. My current state of mind is that I’m not going to worry about all the horrible […]

RIP David Sanborn

So long to the saxophonist David Sanborn. He was one of the great lovers of all kinds of music— you can watch his show Night Music on YouTube, it was on in 1988-90, and he brought on […]

CYMBALISTIC: making videos today….

CYMBALISTIC: Making videos of the new cymbals— I think you guys are going to flip for them. There are the three new Extra Special Janavars, one with a heavy patina; 18/20/22″ Special Janavars with a […]

Percussion swap meet in Chehalis, WA tomorrow

If any of you are in… whatever you call that part of Washington state— the I-5 corridor between Olympia and Longview… there’s going to be a drummer swap meet/gathering tomorrow, Sunday, July 17th, at Alexander […]

 Shoutout to Eduard in Odessa, and all of our other readers in Ukraine— stay safe. 

Funky 7s on the drums

Some street-beat style 7 stroke roll related things that came up spontaneously when I was practicing today. This had a little bit of a funky Maracatu-type street beat feel the way I was playing it— […]

More reality

Well, you can’t say this hasn’t been an eventful couple of years. I’ve always been a basically healthy guy, and, having no health insurance for most of my life, I’m not in the habit of […]