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Dude, just get a girlfriend or something
Posted by Rob Fitzpatrick on 24 April 2009 - 9:38am.
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All that effort wasted.
When he could be playing Rock Band.
More: 13-year-old girl does YYZ:
Damn...
...I was hoping she'd drop those sticks. Bloody show off!!
Dude - wanna know what happened?
- so what like you think I never had a girlfriend. Do you think it was always like this for me? The skins my only friend, the hi- hat and ride - my freakin' best companions?
Do you think this is how I always ate - face up to the cheese whip nozzle? Dressed from a Foot Locker fire sale?
She was called Svetlana - that's right, met her on a "Meet Russian Girls" website. "You give good Visa, they give good ***" But she wasn't like that. She was kind, gentle, pretty. Great cook too - did stuff with potatoes you wouldn't believe.
Anyway,one night right after "Melrose Place" we went to a Rush gig. Amazing. Timmy, my buddy from the "Release the Giant Within" classes was working security. I went to get Diet Cokes. When I got back all Timmy said was "she's gone man. With Neil Peart".
And so I saved, went to DrumWorld every day, DVDs of the greats - Cobham, Bonham. Watched. Learned. Practised. Practised. Every night. Every day. And I'm getting good. And next time they're in Cleveland. I'll be ready
Timmy, gonna help me set up a false curtain right behind Peart - and as the intro to "Red Barchettta" kicks in... BOOM!
Man, can't wait to see the look on Svetlana's face when that happens!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have Firecracker triplets to practise...
Hey...
that's Lifeson
That's like awesome man!
I wonder if his World of Warcraft clan will have me...
Pah!
Where's the experience Fraser? Where's the grit? Where's the oxygen tank?
There may be some overdubs in that but hey, she is 91.
You may laugh
but that's a really good performance. According to his blurb he's an astrophysicist by day, and plays drums as a hobby. I've known "professional" drummers who couldn't play anything like as good as that.
So what exactly are we supposed to be sneering at? That's he's a fat bloke with a big drum kit, playing prog rock and taking pains to get it spot on? Personally I'm inclined to side with the guy playing music really well, just for the love of it, against the snidey internet gits.
Astrophysics
Ah. So that explains the Very Large Array.
I suitable emoticon Astrophysics
Agreed
He's good. He's enthusiastic. What's not to like? I enjoyed it.
I'm with you mate.
All power to his tom-toms. He made me get out my copy of 'Moving Pictures' and annoy the neighbours. Which is a GOOD THING.
Respect is due
Fully agree with the above. Come on, if left alone with a drum kit for a few minutes who wouldn't love to have a bash, as it were?
You would have thought that drumming was a good aerobic workout, wouldn't you? The generously proportioned and obviously well practised sticksman would seem to refute that...
I'm at work so can't see it...
but.. it's not Stimpy is it? ;-)
No!
but it's made me cough in an embarassed fashion and shuffle some papers on my desk :-)
Not that I ever play stuff like that - oh nosirree.
AND I've got a Tama kit as well - scary!
I'm with the guy that posted the comment 'epic'...
on You Tube. He's good, isn't he? Wonder if he has a Rush pig...