Here are some good things to look at while I have a couple of busy days. I haven’t had a lot of time for much serious book learnin’ or ritin’ recently, but I’ll have some […]
Category: music
Everybody Paice out
A couple of old favorites from the heyday of the cowbell and the four-stroke ruff down the drums ending on the bass drum (there’s got to be a better name for that lick): Get Lay […]
Dispatches
Not that easy a life. Here’s a note I received from a British drummer currently working on a ship in the Mediterranean: “I’m presently doing a stint as a cruise drummer in the Med and […]
I am so smart
This from The Telegraph, a couple of years ago: ‘Drummers are natural intellectuals’ Drummers are better known for their beats than their brain power, but research has suggested that they might actually be natural intellectuals. […]
How we used to learn the open roll
I just got a very nice note from Jim Buckley about the following comment of mine from the Drummerworld.com. Jim is a major figure in corps- he marched snare with Ghost in one of the […]
Oh, hey
Oh surprise, it looks like my 2009 record, 69 Année Érotique, is still getting some occasional radio play. The first tune here is us playing Serge Gainsbourg’s Bonnie and Clyde on good old WFMU (91.1 […]
Keeping the band happy.
More notes from revamping my book (my events band’s performing repertoire, that is). Here I thought I would share some of the tunes I use to keep the band from going nuts over the more […]
Drummer/jazz musician interview archive
Here’s something well worth spending a few hours with- the podcast archive of the Jake Feinberg Show. Includes interviews with drummers Mickey Roker, and Ndugu Leon Chancler, as well as LA studio percussionist Emil Richards, […]
Updating my book
In preparation for a benefit gig this evening, I’m adding some new tunes my group’s book, and more importantly clearing some of the ample dead wood. In case you’re curious about the “thought” process that […]
Todd Bishop’s Pop Art 4 on KMHD (PDX) in 2009
Oh, I guess I should post my own stuff occasionally. Pop Art 4, my group from 2008-2010, is playing a Bastille Day event in Portland tomorrow, and the band sounded so good in rehearsal today […]