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Ok, so I’m officially gonna start taking lessons to play the drums!
I have to call a few of the teachers who’ve been offered up to me, but the bottom line is that I’m finally going for it!!!
I’m excited.
What’s funny is my long time friend (my e-friend, since we’ve never met in person, we’ve only emailed for probably the last 3 years or so) Johnny P send me this link to a kick ass drum set on ebay. How did he know? :) I don’t think I’ll be buying my own set for awhile.. but if I did – look at this one – it’s RED!!!
Johnny P has been an inspiration, because he has been teaching himself the drums for a couple years (?) now – and it goes w/o saying he loves watching the drummers in bands just as much as I do. Last Thanksgiving he even sent me this awesome video with a tour of his studio (and a camio of his kitty, Charlotte is in there, too!). He was kinda making a spoof from a goofy video I’d done of myself where I was filming myself doing a sound check on my Nikon camera.
Anyway – Johnny’s awesome – and it’d be sweet to have a house where I could have my own mini lil’ studio and jam on the drums on Thanksgiving morning :)
I showed Rick the link to the drum set Johnny emailed me and he was like, “aawww shiit, It’s STARTING!”
Rick plays guitar, so we talk “guitar talk” quite a bit – and he’s taught me a lot about what the guitarists we see are playing and such. And he’s in the market for a new electric guitar, too. So I think he’s psyched I’ll actually be starting to talk gear talk with him more. That and he’ll have lots of new ideas for gifts :) hahaa
Let the fun begin!
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That is totally awesome! One moment I’m reading about her whiplash rock&roll show and the next I read she’ll be throwing down some mad chops on the skins, YO!
Once you start buying videos for live band footage, you’ll know there is no turning back.
Good luck Willo on taking up something new and expressive.
Johnny
Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage.
Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact.
Living in the limelight
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem.
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation,
Get on with the fascination,
The real relation,
The underlying theme.
Living in a fisheye lens,
Caught in the camera eye.
I have no heart to lie
I can’t pretend a stranger
Is a long-awaited friend.
All the world’s indeed a stage
And we are merely players:
Performers and portrayers,
Each another’s audience
Outside the gilded cage.
p.s. I dont necessarily wanna be a rockstar. I just want to improve my air drumming!
“So I think he’s psyched I’ll actually be starting to talk gear talk with him more.” ????
Nope.
I am psyched because now I have a drummer for the all-girl, Japanese rock band I am forming.
woohoo!
cool!! i dont play anything, but if i came to do, i would be between picking drums or bass guitar :)
take a look at this flash, you can somewhat play the gigantic drums set with your mouse, awesome
and be nice to your drums, dont do this
Rio de Janeiro show, last january, i was there!!! It was very funny after the song ended, he and bruce (the vocalist) begun telling jokes until the guys fixed it to the show continue :)
oh my god – I love that virtual drumset – but now I need two mice so I can hit more at one time!! :) fun fun – thanks sav
you need to see metallica drummer. it will make you not even want to try to improve your air drumming.