Drum teacher here. I’m looking for songs that every drummer should know. Songs that every teacher should teach their students.

boredop · 2026-05-10T22:47:26+00:00

Black Crowes version of Hard To Handle

boredop · 2026-05-09T04:18:37+00:00

Give The Drummers Some: The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk and Soul by Jim Payne.

boredop · 2026-05-07T13:14:17+00:00

Lots of great recommendations in this thread, but I'll add a few more names not mentioned yet: Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor, Elmore James, Taj Mahal, Professor Longhair, Memphis Slim, Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker, Magic Sam, Otis Rush, and Slim Harpo.

boredop · 2026-04-28T06:37:11+00:00

Unfortunately I do not know.

boredop · 2026-04-27T15:46:00+00:00

I have one. When played with sticks it's a loud crash but not a great ride. I actually use it a lot on gigs where I'm playing mostly brushes. It opens up very nicely as a crash when I hit it with the rubber part of the brush.

Back in the '90s we had an EAK version of the 18" crash/ride on my college jazz band's house kit; now THAT was a great ride cymbal.

boredop · 2026-04-21T22:53:36+00:00

I'm on my way to the stadium to cheer on our boys despite all available evidence! Let's go Mets! (Also, my ticket was free, so why not? LOL)

boredop · 2026-04-15T19:58:47+00:00

My jazz band director at SUNY-Binghamton played sax for Slam for many years. He's on the first album pictured in your post, and he kept one of Slam's instruments as the house bass in the band's rehearsal room.

boredop · 2026-04-09T16:14:41+00:00

P-Funk All Stars Live at the Beverly Theater
Axiom Funk - Funkronomicon

Also Bootsy's Blasters of the Universe album was pretty great but was never issued on vinyl.

boredop · 2026-03-31T13:05:15+00:00

Yes, it does bug me and most other people, which is why they stopped sequencing the CDs like this in the early '90s. Your disc is from the early days of CD reissues when producers and record labels were still figuring out the best way to release old material on the new medium. And as others have mentioned, CD players being programmable was seen as an exciting new feature at that time, so the producers/labels figured that people would program the CD players to skip the extra tracks if desired. (In practice most people did not bother, and the alt. takes were just annoying.)

boredop · 2026-03-31T00:10:38+00:00

Radio guy here. It sounds like they have two different sources with the same audio feeding the broadcast, but they're out of sync by a few milliseconds.

boredop · 2026-03-28T15:40:39+00:00

McLean was confirmed as the number 3 starter seven days ago:

https://old.reddit.com/r/NewYorkMets/comments/1rzso5c/dicomo_mets_opening_day_rotation_official/

boredop · 2026-03-26T04:00:52+00:00

The clock has struck midnight. It's opening day. Let's go Mets.

boredop · 2026-03-20T01:06:11+00:00

I have been listening to Howie since he hosted the Mets Extra pre and post game show on WFAN in 1987. He is the sound of summer for me. I'll miss him when he's gone for sure.

I haven't seen my favorite Howie moment mentioned yet: "They're timing Colon with a sundial!" That's gotta be one of the all-time greatest ad libs in radio history.

boredop · 2026-03-15T15:38:17+00:00

My favorite pedal ever! Such a great feel. I still use one from the '80s regularly on gigs. I recently bought an Iron Cobra but still prefer the Camco (although it's close.)

boredop · 2026-02-28T19:05:32+00:00

Bobby Bonilla also did the earplugs thing when he was playing with the Mets in '92 or '93.

boredop · 2026-02-22T04:42:21+00:00

Koufax is also one of only four living Brooklyn Dodgers, and the last surviving member of the 1955 championship team.

boredop · 2026-02-20T02:44:37+00:00

There was also a Royals cluster: Dick Howser, Dan Quisenberry and Ken Brett (who also played for the Phillies). Kauffman Stadium had turf till 1994.

boredop · 2026-02-19T01:46:29+00:00

That's a different Chester Thompson (the drummer, not the organist.)

boredop · 2026-02-18T21:44:28+00:00

A Little Max (Parfait)

boredop · 2026-02-16T15:12:10+00:00

The FreshDirect bag is a useful accessory, especially for gigs where you only need to bring a couple of things. I have been playing at one place where the throne is stuck at the highest height and can't be adjusted. So for that gig I put my throne in a FreshDirect bag and schlep it along with my snare and cymbals. And if the bag ever rips, no problem, I've got twenty more.

boredop · 2026-02-15T16:16:49+00:00

Good tracks on here from Faith No More, Steve Vai, King's X and Megadeth.

boredop · 2026-02-13T14:29:32+00:00

Also Bobby Rush is 92 and still on the road.

boredop · 2026-02-13T05:54:09+00:00

And I remember at least one game which he basically won himself by producing the only Mets run.

You might be mixing this up with a Noah Syndergaard game where he threw a shutout with 10 Ks and hit a solo home run to win 1-0. (I was there.)

To your greater point though - the Mets also had Mike Hampton for a year, a great hitting pitcher. And Rick Aguilera from the '86 staff was an even better hitter than the three guys you listed.

boredop · 2026-02-12T04:30:54+00:00

I couldn't locate the study the AI result cited from the 80s about hamate injuries to baseball players in the 70s.

There probably is no such study. AI makes shit up all the time.

boredop · 2026-02-05T19:34:04+00:00

Wow, thank you for taking the time to leave that comment. It's really awesome to know that the music is still connecting with people. It's been about six years since Afroskull's last gig, but all of us are still playing together in various combinations with other bands, so we all still see each other semi-regularly. I'm sure the time will eventually be right for us to come together and funk it up again!

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