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What do you call a drummer that breaks up with his girlfriend? Homeless.

That's Why God Made The Radio - Beach Boys (quintuple word score) ?

My first instrument was drums. Here is my advice. First: Learn at least the first dozen basic rudiments for drums. I think there are 40 but the first dozen or so will bring you a lot. Then when you hear drummers do things, your hands will already know how. Listen intently to drummers. My favorite are: Hal Blaine (Wrecking Crew - the most recorded musician in history) Ginger Baker John Bohnam Bernard "Pretty" Purdy Start by stepping on the hi-hat (sock) on all the 2s and 4s of a 4/4 song. Then eighth notes on the ride cymbal, then bass on 1 and 3 and snare on 2 and 4. This will build your most basic rhythm and teach you coordination. Then start going from there. Choose the Hal Blaine recordings first, as he is solid but never gets in the way of the rest of the band. Drums take time. Don't try to rush, take it in steps. Insights and incites by Notes

You Go To My Head - Mark Murphy A very different take on this old jazz standard Most people do it more like Sinatra (also a nice version)

lyrics by Irving Berlin: She started a heat wave By letting her seat wave And in such a way that The customers say that She certainly can can-can Pretty racy for 1933 Heat Wave - Ethel Waters

God can't spell becan wright

Take On Me - aha

Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal

synkrotron, you have a lot of time on your hands. I'm glad you are putting it to good use. Keep working on the becan though. Consider it the next challenge Notes

Contrary to the masses, my favorite Beethoven symphonies are not 5 and 9 but 4 and 7. OK, I'm weird. Symphony #7: Beethoven - George Szell / Cleveland Orchestra

One of the stupidest songs in rock history "Jolly Green Giant" - The Kingsmen

But then Garcia is dead and a dead Dead at that. Pigpen is a dead Dead too. That makes two. So how can we have a live Dead performance when two of the Deads are dead Deads? Now you have me confused.

Bulletproof Picasso - Train

The lens maker fell into his machine and made a spectacle of himself.

Better than a dead performance

"Yeh Yeh" - Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames I always thought he should have been a bigger star, but that's just me. And doing a Lambert, Hendricks and Ross song Gimme That Wine And some stuff I've never heard before - I just started it, no comment as I haven't heard it all yet.

Down To My Last Cigarette - k.d. lang

Most people are shocked when they find out how incompetent I am as an electrician.

Thanks.

Happy Birthday Wibbles!

Perverts? How about: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Sonny Boy Williamson (author and first recording by)

Symphony for String Orchestra - Fikret Amirov