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Sorry for the preponderance of video clips of late— what can I say, we’re a little scattered this week. This is a remarkable recording made by an old drum corps colleague, Nathan Beck— he wore […]

Back to regular posting in a moment… Waldo Lake, high in the Oregon Cascades. My friend did the Leonardo Di Caprio pose at my behest… that’s my fault…

A TECHNICAL NOTE: With the mid-90’s siren gif and everything, so you know it’s serious. Evidently our downloads have been, ah, down— inoperative— for a couple of days now, without my knowledge. The problem is […]

HEY ROACH, what’s with the constant cymbal tapping? “…and why do they use the exact same beat on every song?  And who invented this awful, one-man-band percussion concept, with the abrasive and irritating sound of […]

Thanks, we get it: “you’re a restaurant”, now please GTFOOMF. After months of becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the results my drumming-related web searches, this week I installed the Google search results blocker extension to my […]

A couple of Minnesota artists, Venus DeMars and Lynette Reini-Grandell, are the subject of a punitive audit by the state department of revenue, for the crime of not making enough money: “We’ve had several meetings […]

Something real, at last: h/t to Andy @ Guru Drumworks

You are Tom Bosley. From one of my political blogs, here’s a Twitter exchange highlighting something I’ve become increasingly aware of. First, Carl Newman of the New Pornographers: The distance in time between ’77 punk […]

This blog covers so much stuff that, if you’ve just been browsing around hoping to get lucky, you’ve probably missed a lot of things you’d be interested in; so I want to direct your attention […]

Short and boring, but a melody. Not to be confused with the excellent blog of the same name. I’ve gotten involved into some fairly contentious discussion of the role of melody in drumming recently, so […]

This ear worm has seriously been plaguing me all day, and I see no reason why this should just be my problem:

Rehearsal, severely jetlagged, at Jazz Station, Brussels More tour documentation here— this may not be real interesting to everyone. These are the tunes I had in my book on the 2012 outing, along with some […]