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"Words fail at a moment like this. It’s hard to imagine a world without Brian Wilson. More words, memories and tributes will be forthcoming but beyond changing the face of music— he was at the epicenter of the life Taylor and I built together. So many friends we made were also planets in Brian’s...

"On the first day of summer, June 21, 1974, Zappa and his band, the Mothers of Invention, invited a small audience to the their humble rehearsal hall on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Calif., for what would be an intoxicating, sweat-drenched two-hour-plus performance. A small film crew equipped with...

While once again watching old overhead videos of Neil Peart playing one of his kits, I found myself wondering how fun it would be to have a MIDI input keyboard large enough to play with sticks as part of the drum kit. Not standard drum pads but something in the actual form factor of a piano...

Here's what my new WFL III snare looked like when I got it this weekend, and now what it looks like after I got into a fender bender on the way home. Edit: April Fools!

YouTuber Siros Vaziri spent 30+ hours recording and editing 59 combinations of stacked chinas, splashes, and crashes so that anyone considering adding a stack to their kit could get an idea of how a specific sound could be accomplished. It's an old video but the info is great. The last time I...

I'm still updating, rearranging, and awaiting some minor pieces of hardware, and the new music room has no lighting yet so the pictures aren't great, but here's where I am with my kit. It's mostly how I think it will stay for now, although having a double bass setup for the first time ever comes...

I'm organizing my other instruments in my new music room while waiting for some drum equipment to come in the mail. There are my guitar set-ups: Ibanez Gio GRX20 → TUNER: BOSS TU-3 Chromatic Tuner Pedal → ENVELOPE: EHX Stereo Talking Machine → PITCH/OCTAVE: Electro-Harmonix Pitchfork →...

I've spent the past several months renovating the upstairs apartment, mostly because it needed it but partially because it was wasted space that could be better utilized. The entire upstairs front room is now my music room, and the last thing to go up was the drum rug with all landmarks...

46 years ago today, Rolling Stone magazine published this review by David Marsh of Queen’s seventh album, Jazz, which reached number six on the US Billboard 200 chart and number two on the UK Albums Chart and ultimately was RIAA Platinum certified. ORIGINAL ROLLING STONE REVIEW There's no...

Hello my fellow drumming enthusiasts. This is a gentle reminder that we have a set of rules posted and pinned to the top of the first page of the forum, and regardless of your personal feelings, or your dissatisfaction with the current cultural climate, or your heart-felt need to express your...

It was announced today that legendary guitarist John Sykes, best known as a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Tygers of Pan Tang, died of cancer, age 65.

[copy > paste from Bernhard's post in the DrummerWorld Site News subforum] He played with Don Ellis, Elvis Costello, Klaus Doldingers Passport, Brian Auger, Rick Springfield, Sheryl Crow, Dionne Warwick to name a few... DAVID CRIGGER - BIO from the bio: At the age of 18, drummer David...

Okay, his birthday was yesterday, but today is DylanFest 2024! Every year for the last 34 years, Andy and Renee and their band Hard Rain have celebrated Bob Dylan's birthday with an all-day music festival. It started all those years ago as a get-together of friends in a back yard, and it has...

We're just waiting for the show to start.

"Amateur" by Lasse Gjertsen.

"Last fall, Slipknot abruptly announced that they had parted ways with longtime drummer Jay Weinberg, who said he felt "heartbroken and blindsided" by losing the dream job he had had since 2014. Fortunately, Weinberg has found a new musical home in Suicidal Tendencies. Today (March 5th), the...

Renowned drumming instructor Dave Elitch posted some interesting thoughts on his Instagram account today: "I’ve always thought that there has been far too much emphasis on rudiments as a topic of study and how they are fundamentally out dated and largely irrelevant in regards to playing the...

Happy New Year to old friends and new! As many new drummers have just celebrated the holidays with the gift of their first drum set and are here as the first step in their education, and sometimes those of us who have been here the longest can become a bit too comfortable, I'd like to remind...

Colin Burgess, the original drummer of AC/DC, has died from unknown causes. He was 77. “Very sad to hear of the passing of Colin Burgess,” the Australian rock band announced via Instagram Saturday. “He was our first drummer and a very respected musician. Happy memories, rock in peace Colin.”...

Teresa Taylor, an early drummer for the indie rock band Butthole Surfers who had a small but memorable role in the 1990 film Slacker, died Sunday of lung disease, her former bandmates announced. She was 60. Taylor, who sometimes used the stage name Teresa Nervosa, “passed away peacefully this...