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Obviously it’s been very hard for me to get to a computer and do any posting while I’ve been on tour. Our last gig is tonight, in Aachen, Germany, then I’m off to hang around […]

Nothing but tour-related stuff going on around here right now. Here are the t-shirts we’ll be selling: And: You can get one for $20, US shipping included— just use the “donate” button on the right, […]

Just a quick note to direct your attention to the new Cruise Ship Drummer! Amazon store in the sidebar. It’s full of recommended music, books, gear, and other drumming junk, and when you order through […]

Here’s a funk groove from the Herbie Hancock album Man-Child which has both Mike Clark and Harvey Mason on drums. It sounds like Harvey to me, but I could be wrong. It was released in […]

This is a piece a lot of you current or former percussion majors should be familiar with– Etude 4 from Methode de Caisse-Claire by Jacques Delecluse. I’ve made a three limb drumset study out of […]

Off to play at the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival under the St. Johns bridge in Portland this afternoon, with Andrew Durkin’s Proto-Human group. If you’re in Portland, come on down– we hit at 3:45.

Wow, I think that’s the longest we’ve gone without posting since I “revived this sucker somewhat” back in January, 2011. It’s been a very busy week with tour junk, car shopping, and brushing up on […]

Of marginal utility for anything other than moving a single human with no cargo a quarter of a mile in a straight line as fast as possible, while raising serious questions about efficiency due to […]

First beer. Note: I wrote this a couple of months ago and set it aside, thinking I didn’t really need to go here. But then I saw that Ted Warren has written about a similar […]

Jeez, has it only/already been a year? I started 2011 with this “terse announcement”, my second blog post in four years: “I’m about to revive this sucker somewhat. Look for more music-related items and odd […]

You’ve probably heard this exquisite version of “O Holy Night” before, but maybe not with this guy lip syncing- we’re convinced that he’s an actual performer because he actually does a pretty impeccable job with […]

Prior to flooding the arena for the gladiatorial re-enactment of the battle of Actium, here’s a fresh novelty to ogle at, courtesy of my old friend Kirk in LA: I retired amazingness as a thing […]