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The most irritating stock photo I could find to accompany this post. By the way, I want to give a shout out to some people who have donated to the blog since August— Peter, Benoit, and […]

If you’re in Seattle, get your butt to Ballard. My group will be playing tonight at Egan’s on Market from 7:40-10:00, with Rich Cole, Jasnam Daya Singh, and Chris Higgins.

By the way, folks, I encourage you to follow us on Twitter— I think I’m finding my groove there at last, with a mix of new and past stuff from the blog, music, art, comedy, […]

Just a service update— I’ll be traveling for most of the month of December, and posts will be few. I’m doing a recording in Brussels with last year’s touring band— Jasnam Daya Singh (Weber Iago), […]

Just off the top of my head, here are 50 of the greatest drummers not included in this 50 greatest drummers list: Jack Dejohnette, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Joe Morello, Steve Gadd, Kenny Clarke, […]

CHICK WEBB, ladies and gentlemen. Apparently a white, 19th century coke-slag magnate. If you want to get your blood pressure up— not least because the site is so poorly coded it may crash your browser— […]

OK, it looks like we’ve gotten this hosting nonsense sorted out. PDF downloads are working for the whole site, and you can get to the site via www.cruiseshipdrummer.com, or via the blogspot address, http://shipdrummer.blogspot.com. Just […]

SHUT UP, Einstein, there’s a drummer present. We are so smrt: [R]esearchers at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet found that drummers who kept a tighter rhythm also scored better on a 60-question intelligence test. This is a […]

NOTE: This post will be pinned to the top of the blog until June 1, but I’ll be posting heavily, so be sure to scroll down and hit the older posts link so you don’t […]

Be advised that posting will be spotty for a couple of days while I undergo, and recover from, a lovely big ol’ dental procedure. On the up side: we’re going to have a fund raiser […]

You’re not fooling anyone, photographer— you sprayed the glass with water for that refreshing, weekends- were-made-for-Michelob, oh-I-just-pulled-this-full- pint-out-of-the-ice-chest effect… we’re getting off topic. OK, I’m on such a cold streak blog content-wise right now, I’d better write […]

Would that we were actually talking about Paul Klee’s painting “The Twittering Machine”,  and not social networking. By the way, we’ll be making a fresh effort at getting going with the Twitter machine… I’m going […]