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Eivind August wrote:^

I kinda want to find a drummer and form a noise rock duo. Want to get my primal riffage on and destroy shit. That would be sweet.

That was my favorite form of Lord Galvar...it was so much fun. We had a singer/ranter/angry man run around though. Mostly just talked really quick (but he is my best friend and it was fun to watch him).

It would be awesome to hear your form of it.

Don't talk UC into a 4th setup...haha

I thought it would be fun to randomly scream about kittens and the benefits of a proper education over my riffs. Want this to be pretty stripped down, so UC would have to learn teh drumz.

Have to find a fitting drummer, but will try to make it reality. Haven't played punky stuff in a band for five or six years, so have some ideas laying around.

That is the one thing I have never found is a reliable dummer (finding a drummer at all is hard enough)...I really should have just done that. haha

That's what I was meaning about him getting another setup haha. One day he is going to have a whole band's equipment and make solo albums.

I gave up on finding a drummer and just became one.

Local bar/venue is possibly letting people curate their own 1-night mini film festival. I kind of want to do that and show American Pop and Heavy Metal. Something like Popular Music of the Twentieth Century Interpreted Through Animated Narrative.

I sat behind a drum set a few times...intimidating, confusing, and hard to even know where to start for me. Gave up on that thought really quick.

Yeah drumming on a kit is a goddamn mystery to me -- and I grew up with a sibling and a parent who both play drums, so I had ample opportunity to fuck around on a kit. I'm just not that coordinated.

Pro-tip (well "pro" might be pushing it): Start with as few things as possible. High hat, bass drum, snare.

Otherwise, I use a floor tom, crash, ride (really just a bigger crash) and recently added a single rack tom. It's not bare bones, but its less than 90% of drummers.

The problem is that I'm bad enough on drums that I'd rather just play bass instead. Self-fulfilling prophecy, for sure, but since I don't have a lot of time to play music with people (and that's my only real dependable access to a kit) wasting everyone's time is not on my to do list.

Haha, I did start simple. I was just trying to hit the snare in an regular fashion...once I kinda did that, I tried to coordinate my foot in there...failure. As soon as my brain heard foot...hands stopped. So I just accepted that and stuck to playing guitar really bad. Serious respect for drummers.

But I'm very uncoordinated and have no rhythm at all...like can't even keep rhythm with people clapping at a phish show (not that I would go to one...just pointing out how bad I am at that stuff...and commenting on phish fans). Yea...I've also never tapped my foot while playing a damn thing in my life...

lordgalvar wrote:Don't talk UC into a 4th setup...haha

No talking needed. He's probably perusing drum sites right now. Hand have been for a while.

Kick and snare and kick and snare and kick and snare and...

I got lost at "and" haha

Youtube just updated their server/software package and broke all the embeds on here for mobile (at least on my end).

Seems like they as doing some big changes...no more using tablet at ILF (unless they change it again)

Drums are interesting to me--I play a lot of hand drums, but never got motivated to get a kit. I've gigged the most on bass, followed by guitar, then mando, misc. other strings and recently keys. I don't think of myself as super coordinated, but I did play a gig once as a big band's drummer--not really jazz big band--more r&b/rock. I was the bass player and the drummer punked out on a gig on a riverboat and, well, the show must go on. I got picked because someone else in the band knew I once played bass drum in a marching band (and one of the trombones could play bass). I was in a blind panic about it at first, but miraculously that blind panic turned off my critical-thinking faculties, which opened up an ability to just freakin' do it--and it was actually really good--I had a pisser, the other guys in the band (all twelve of 'em) either loved it or did their best impersonation thereof, and everyone on the dance floor just kept smilin' and dancin'. For some reason, I never tried for a repeat. It's actually fairly typical for me--there will be something I am convinced I can't do until I'm forced to, and more often than not, that panic-brain-shutdown saves me. I actually wish I could turn that on, because there's times when my stage fright has been pretty much literally crippling--like my playing ability can drop by 70% and I'm literally shaking, but if it's an instrument I normally play or have played a lot I never get to the panic overload state and I just limp along by selectively dumbing down my playing. It (the stage fright) usually happens in inverse proportion to the number of people on hand, too. IDK if true, but the old story that Charlie Parker started on heroin because his stage fright was crippling always totally made sense to me....

TLDR/TMI mode: off.

Kid in the bakery today: "You're the best person on Earth until everybody dies!"

Glad there is national coverage for how terrible Joe Buck is at broadcasting. Thank you Kansas City.