~ Review by Becky “The Trivia Queen” Thorvund The Greatest Living Englishman blew into San Francisco last night for the first of two gigs at the Fillmore, their second Bay Area visit this year. The joint was sold out and the audience was more than ready for two hours of Idolizing. And Sir William did [...]
Tagged fillmore, the trivia queenAs I was contemplating a post on the topic of recording preparation, I received a great comment from RecordingHacks. They turned me on to a new product for bass drum mic placement – the Kelly Shu. Here’s the great review by RecordingHacks. As fate would have it, I recently purchased a Shure Beta 52A for [...]
Tagged kick drum mic, kick mic, Recording, recording technique, session workI recently ran across an Internet advert for Mono cases, and found that Mono has created a couple of very hip bags for drummers, the M80Cymbal and M80Stick bags. Upon initial inspection of the M80 bags, I read this on the attached product labels. Waterproof Sharkskin shell? What the…upon reading further I found the following [...]
Tagged cymbal bag, cymbal case, m80cymbal, m80stick, monocase.com, stick bagOur good friend Jared Falk suggested we check out this DVD. The Drum Tuning System is a two-DVD set, that currently ships with bonus goodies. I received the bonus Drum Gear Buyers Guide. The first thing that struck me is that disc one is hecka long. Having viewed disc one in its entirety and previewed [...]
Tagged drum kit maintenance, drum tuning, Drum Tuning System DVD, drum-tuning.com, drumset tuning, jared falk, Mike Michalkow, robonzo.comAnd the drummer is… As best I can tell, the man on drums for the new Oasis album Dig Out Your Soul is Chris Sharrock. No, wait! It’s Zak Starkey. Thanks to one of our readers, I’ve been corrected. The winner was Zak Starkey. Today, information is flowing on the new album and I’ve been [...]
Tagged chris sharrock, dig out your sould drummer, new oasis album, oasis drummerI recently previewed the how-to DVD published by Guerilla DrumMaking. As an owner of vintage drum kit, I was immediately drawn to the idea of customizing a single drum or even designing my own custom kit. The tools required are nowhere near the expense that I would have guessed. A basic workshop can probably be [...]
Tagged custom drum making, customize drum hardware, customize drum shells, drum making, drum making instructions, drum making video, drum making workshop, guerrilla drummaking, guerrilladrummaking.com, instructional drum making DVD, setup drum shopSince my recent write up on drum lesson sites, two have jumped out as my favorites. My personal number one is Mike Johnston’s, MikesLessons.com. I was hooked after watching a couple of his free lessons on The Drum Lab (YouTube). MikesLessons.com is a very cool site that offers iPod lesson downloads for 0.99 or monthly [...]
Tagged complete rock drumming system, drum lesson download, drum lessons, drumlessons.com, ipod drum lessons, jared falk, jaredfalk.com, learn drums, mike johnston, online drum lessons, robonzo.com, simon says live, the drum lab, video drum instruction, video drum lessonsI spent the afternoon scouring the web for learning drum sites today. It wasn’t as easy to find ten good one’s as I thought it might be. My goal was to put together a top 10 list. In order to do so, I found it necessary to include content from video channels and MySpace. Here’s [...]
Tagged drum lesson videos, drum lessons, drum technique, free drum lessons, hand drumming lessons, online drum lessonsI had the surprise pleasure of being treated to a performance by Jason Bonham with Foreigner at the Mountain Winery concert venue in Saratoga this week. The invitation was for dinner and a show with Foreigner. I didn’t even realize until moments before the show that Jason was a current member of the band. The [...]
In a recent concert at Japan’s legendary Budokan venue, super-hot pop star, diva Beyonce performed with a huge band (two keyboard players, a 4-piece horn section, backup singers, dancers, guitar, bass, a percussionist and two drummers. Oh yeah, it was an all female band. Her band was great, and Beyonce was fun to watch. This [...]
I recently caught John Mayer’s performance on DirecTV’s Control Room. Having never seen Mayer in concert live or otherwise, I immediately took notice of what a great guitarist the guy is. The very next thing I noticed was drummer JJ Johnson, who plays well throughout the show. His grooves are fantastic, his timing flawless and [...]
