Drummers in the slalom world.

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:31 am

It's all because of DCI. "Back in the day" (meaning before 1975 and Madison,) bands used to MARCH and PLAY all over the field in all directions. The brass and percussion had to have a full range in order to be heard when pointing the other way.

With the advent of corps-style marching and DCI-inspired drill, now it's all about VOLUME in ONE DIRECTION. Although lately the drill is not as bad as it was 15 years ago, it's still a lot of walking and then standing and playing towards the judges. Corps (and consequently bands in general,) just don't march and play anymore. They do a lot of drill, a lot of playing but rarely at the same time. Consequently the instruments themselves have becomes more attuned (no pun intended,) at projecting sound in ONE DIRECTION. What good is it sitting in the end zone when a band plays if all the drums have sound shells projecting the sound only to the side lines? If you're on the 50-yard line (where the judges sit,) you're in for a great show.

Everybody else can go get a soda and some nachoes and wait for the second half.

Besides, let's all admit the truth: marching went straight to hell when the Bayonne Banana Bridgemen decided to call it quits. It ain't been the same since!

Kevin M. Gamble · Post by **Kevin M. Gamble** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 1:07 am

Back in the day, a field snare drum sounded like it had some balls. Now, they tune em up so tight they sound tinny and thin, but the rebound is much greater so the drummers don't have to work so hard.

Ricky Byrd · Post by **Ricky Byrd** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:44 pm

Yeah, I'm with you. A thirteen year old thinks it's very cool.

Danny Crawford · Post by **Danny Crawford** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 11:11 pm

I can't take drumline. Even though I play I still found it really boring.

Ricky Byrd · Post by **Ricky Byrd** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:54 pm

Now this is weird.
Josh has picked up drums in the school band and is doing very well They made him play one year of sax before he could touch the drums.

We watch Drumline the movie way to much around here.

Josh also plays a very mean red Fender Strat. He's taken lessons for three and a helf years now and did 3 years of piano before that. Something to be said for slalom and good timing.

Danny Crawford · Post by **Danny Crawford** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:21 am

I've been playing for about 5 years now. I finally got a set to be reckoned with. I got 7 cymbals, Iron Cobra double bass pedal and a jam block!

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Mon Jan 19, 2004 12:18 am

I'll bet you thought I forgot about this topic, huh?

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Q - What do you call a band without a drummer?
A - Successful.

Q - What do you call a woman who knows where her percussionist husband is every night?
A - A Widow

During a break in the Battle Of The Bands contest at the local county fair, a drummer walks up to a pop machine, puts in his money, pushes a button, gets a pop. He puts more money in, pushes a button gets a pop. He puts more money in, pushes a button, gets a pop. The guy standing behind him waiting says "Hey Ringo, are you done yet??" The drummer turns around and said "SHHHH!! I'm winning."

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Now, I fully understand that a topic was generated specifically for the posting and transmission of various and asundry observations regarding the flamming and whamming arts.

If I used that forum, though, I wouldn't be aggrevating the hell out of Civ! What fun would that be?

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:51 pm

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band before he gets fired?

"Hey, guys, I wrote a couple of songs. Think we can work them up?"

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 6:48 pm

Thanks Wes...I though this thread died long ago. Good to see you still care.

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 10:26 pm

Q: What's the difference between a drum and an onion?

A: Nobody cries when you cut up a drum!

(Got kind of quiet around here. Didn't want Civ to think I didn't care.)

Eric Wallgren · Post by **Eric Wallgren** » Tue May 27, 2003 11:00 pm

What's the difference between the a bull and the lawrence Welk Orchestra?

On a bull, the horns are in the front, and the assh@le is in the back...

Started playing the drums about 10 years after I started skating, and it was punk rock and being in bands that finally pried my attention from skating. Not that being a drummer in a punk band necessarily gets one laid in a regular fashion, but your likelyhood is greater than that if one spends all their time alone in a parking lot wiggling through cones looking like Henry Hester...

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Brian Morris · Post by **Brian Morris** » Tue May 20, 2003 10:56 pm

how do you know the stage is level. cause the drewl is coming from both sides of the drummers mouth.

Brian

Steve Prue · Post by **Steve Prue** » Tue May 20, 2003 3:46 pm

i went to see Blue Man Group last night on their "rock" tour - counting the blue men - 7 drummers on stage! i'm amazed they find the stage every night.

Q: why are intermissions only 20 minutes?
A: so they don't have to re-train the drummers

(btw, for all the crap i sling towards drummers - i am a huge fan of drums/tight rythmn sections and last night was downright bad-ass with 4 full kits and 3 other percussion structures)

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Tue May 20, 2003 2:28 pm

A bass player and a drummer are walking home one night from a gig. The quickest way back to their girlfriends' apartments is on the railroad tracks.

The bass player says, "This is the longest staircase I ever saw."
The drummer says, "yeah, it wouldn't be so bad, though, if the hand rail was a little higher!"

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Thu May 15, 2003 3:00 pm

Hey, I'm a percussionist, so y'all just kiss my foot (he says in deference to the faint of heart.) I've been playing spoons since I was eight years old!

"She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes, (clickety click)"
"She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes, (clickety click)"
"She'll be drivin' six white horses,"
"She'll be drivin' six white horses,"
"She'll be drivin' six white horses when she comes, (clickety click)"

Steve Prue · Post by **Steve Prue** » Thu May 15, 2003 6:23 am

y'all forced my hand - got three:

why is a drum solo like a sneeze?
you know it's coming and there's nothing you can do about it.

personal favorite:
A man goes to an exotic tropical island for a vacation. As the boat nears the island, he notices the constant sound of drumming coming from the island. As he gets off the boat, he asks the first native he sees how long the drumming will go on. The native casts about nervously and says "very bad when the drumming stops."

At the end of the day, the drumming is still going and is starting to get on his nerves. So, he asks another native when the drumming will stop. The native looks as if he's just been reminded of something very unpleasant. "Very bad when the drumming stops," he says, and hurries off.

After a couple of days with little sleep, our traveller is finally fed up, grabs the nearest native, slams him up against a tree, and shouts "What happens when the drumming stops?!!"

"Bass solo."

one last one...

If a dollar bill was laying in the center of a room, and the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, a drummer with good time, and a drummer with bad time were standing in the corners, who would get the money?

The drummer with bad time since the other three don't exist.

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Thu May 15, 2003 12:52 am

A drummer asked his son, "Junior, daddy got paid a big bonus for playing that wedding last weekend. I can get anything you want. What would you like for Christmas?"

"A daddy who plays trombone!"

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Thu May 15, 2003 12:50 am

What do you call a drummer with a beeper?
An optimist.

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Thu May 15, 2003 12:42 am

OK wes.....its getting better. At least you chose a different instrument. Ok, what the range of an oboe?.......50 yrds. Man that was a bad joke.

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Wed May 14, 2003 9:10 pm

Ok, just to be fair:

How do you get two saxophonists to plays in tune?
SHOOT ONE!

Vlad Popov · Post by **Vlad Popov** » Wed May 14, 2003 8:57 pm

I used to be a drummer. In a “Young Commi” school band. I’m also in the sport bikes and alpine snowboards. So, if you’re a Commi, a drummer, a sport biker, a slalomer and an alpine snowboarder, lets get a separate forum. If one of the conditions does not apply to you, nevermind then.

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Wed May 14, 2003 7:18 pm

Is it just me, or did anyone else notice that in the tremendous explosion of music and computer technology in the 1980s, the first thing everyone insisted on was a machine to replace the drummer?

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Wed May 14, 2003 7:13 pm

I spent the last 3 years in school for music....I CAN read....come on Wes. I know your funnier than that.

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Wed May 14, 2003 7:05 pm

Q. How do you get a drummer to stop playing?
A. Put some sheet music in front of him.

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Wed May 14, 2003 6:09 pm

sure that counts....I really thinkhave internal time helps with slalom. Im always singing beats in time with my pump. when I 6 foot straight cones I just pick a rudiment or groove and think of it while I am running the cones, helps a lot. Offsets are fills or somthing else and then back into the groove. There is music in everything.

Brian Morris · Post by **Brian Morris** » Wed May 14, 2003 6:59 am

i rock out on the drums to some drum corps stuff but thats about it. otherwise i'm a guitar/bass/piano/tuba player. but i always have the cadets street beat playing in my head when I slalom. does that count?

Brian

Henry Julier · Post by **Henry Julier** » Wed May 14, 2003 1:06 am

I played kit for 7 years and was in a New Orleans Jazz band in middle shool. We played gigs at seafood restaurants and senior citizens homes. I play percussion now in a concert band.

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Wed May 14, 2003 12:36 am

Yes steve this IS a phish show.....jk. I did talk drums with geezer at the G3...he told me about his giant double bass drums....scary. And Steve.....just becase you look like Dave Grohl doesnt mean you can play drums.....or does it?. So thats 2 drummers so far.......

Will J · Post by **Will J** » Tue May 13, 2003 9:45 pm

mmmm, paradiddles... lrllrlrrlrllrlrr....

yes, drummer here also, i miss my '71 slingerland set more than anything..

Steve Prue · Post by **Steve Prue** » Tue May 13, 2003 8:30 pm

heh - there were skid marks in front of the squirrel...

just say no to drum circles...what is this? a phish show? GeezerX, help me here - throw some punk rock sensibilities into this mix.

- what do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?

- homeless.

steve

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Tue May 13, 2003 5:41 pm

ok....this is for people that can play or have played....not people who have terrible drummer jokes to share. This includes you stevep. WES, come to the farm...we can practice paradiddles.

Wesley Tucker · Post by **Wesley Tucker** » Tue May 13, 2003 5:29 pm

Maybe the rest of us could all smash our thumbs with hammers and see if we can scream in tune?

What's the difference between a dead squirrel in the road and a dead drummer laying right beside it?

The squirrel was probably on his way to a gig!

Mike Cividino · Post by **Mike Cividino** » Tue May 13, 2003 5:24 pm

I noticed at the G3 that there were a whole bunch of drummers, myself included. Lets see...I know a talked drums with KMG, G-X and GBJ at some point during the weekend. Are they any more of us out there......maybe we need to start drums circles at the races.

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