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Drummers as an inferior class

  • December 3, 2024
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Savoring the persecution “Drummers are known to be a race on their own.”– Joe Morello “General Browning, I am a Pole, considered by some to be smart.”– First line spoken by Gene Hackman playing the […]

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Very occasional quote of the day: What “a gig” was

  • December 12, 2019
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“You didn’t get a gig for a weekend, like two days at The Gate. It wasn’t like that. We’d stay at a place a week to three weeks, sometimes seven nights a week and five […]

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What it is: being a professional

  • May 26, 2015
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Obligatory Venn diagram  One area where I see a lot of misconceptions is around the idea of being a professional musician. Usually, people seem to think it means that you make all your money from […]

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