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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 […]

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 […]