July 14, 2008Your boy on drumsA couple of months ago, I wrote a story that nobody read. It was about open mic nights in Roanoke. While I was going to the different bars and reporting it, I actually sat in a few times. At one of the shows, a friend of mine got video. So now you all get to see how lousy I am. Check me out, jamming at Martin's, with open-mic host Aaron Oberg on bass, and Heevahava's Sean Matuk on guitar. It was fun, even if the drums were set up opposite from my left-handed style. Without further ado, as if you needed proof that I don't know what I'm doing ... |
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Comments
[July 14, 2008 8:53 PM]
Papa Joe : →http://www.myspace.com/roanokeallstarstad, well... i checked out the article (as did a bunch of folks), and i was at martins that night...you tore it up, even thou i had the kit set up righty.
[July 15, 2008 8:38 AM]
Chico : →http://thepoprivets@hotmail.comyou're right Tad! You Suck!!!
:)
No really, Sounds rocking good to me!
I too read this, that, and just about every other article you write
[July 15, 2008 10:55 AM]
Lindsey : →http://blogs.roanoke.com/fridgemagnet/Woooooo Hooooo!! You rock, Tad! Way to bang em up. I knew you could play the drums, but now I believe it's true. Hahaha.
[July 15, 2008 11:54 AM]
PeteSeems pretty good to me, but then I don't usually think about a drum kit being set up righty or lefty. Is the difference just the snare placement? I can see how cymbal placement is always a very personal preference in any case. Does handedness correlate with footedness, i.e. are there right vs. left footed bass pedal players? Asked because I remember the double bass vogue in the wake of Ginger Baker; (I think Kent Musselman of teen band the Cynsashuns was the first local drummer to get such a kit), then came the heavy metal drummers' arms race, culminating in the cliche gong, a drummers' ultimate Spinal Tap accessory. More cowbell!!!
Baseball has switchhitters, why not switchdrummers? This is drumming ala Hendrix (just pick up & go)...very impressive to me. You're good. Six of the last eight presidents have been left handed, and both major candidates this year are. Beat that, northpaws.
And I suspect more people read that article on open mics than you claim, Tad (although your story omitted open Mike night at RMH ).
[July 18, 2008 5:46 PM]
TadThanks for the comments, and for reading that piece. I had a blast hitting all the open mics, and I wish I could go to them as steadily as I did when I was reporting the story.
Pete, my favorite "switch-drummer" is Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick. Every time I see him play, he has his hands doing different things. But he keeps the kit set up the same, so he's not switch-footing it!
As for the hand-foot correlation, I am left-handed but right-footed (or -legged), which opens up decent possibilities for me to play a right-handed setup (snare and hi-hat to the left side of the bass drum), if only I had time to practice enough to re-school my feet.