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All I know about him is what I've seen on the internet, but I'm very surprised to hear he behaved that way in a clinic environment. You'd expect someone who does that many events to be more professional. Where was this event?
So how much does he make in a year?
Todd Sucherman is the gold standard when it comes to clinics in my opinion. Nicest guy too.
Oddly, I just thought to myself "damn I missed that JoJo Mayer clinic! I'll just log onto DW and see if anyone went".
I'm not feeling so much like I missed out now. I try not to judge, or at least try and reserve judgement until I meet someone myself, but that does sound pretty bad. I bet some people traveled quite far to see him; I nearly did.
IF it has all gone to his head, then that's a real shame.
Do I need to change my sig?
I'm never surprised anymore. Buddy was a real a-hole and he was the greatest ever.
Joe Morello told me this story:
Joe Morello and Buddy Rich were sitting at a table talking after one of Joe's gigs. A young drummer came up to them with band-aids on his hands. "Mr Rich, Mr. Morello I want you both to know how much of an inspiration you both are to me. I've been practicing so much that I have blisters. That's how much I want to be like you guys"
Buddy showed him his hands and said: "Kid look at my hands, look at Joe's hands. Do you see any blisters. Get out of here. Go play the f-in sax or something."
The kid was so crestfallen that Joe had to take him aside and pick his heart up off the floor where Buddy had stomped all over it.
Yeah, skill level has nothing to do with personality.
That's weird.
I've seen him a couple times and he was pretty nice.
He stopped in at the shop that hosed the Drum Day afterwards, and even showed a buddy who was working on one of his hand techniques EXACTLY how to do it. Then he showed him how he had currently modified the stroke, and that was coming out on the next dvd.
He spent a good 5 minutes, and was cool the whole time.
This was a few years ago (5 or more maybe), so maybe he's changed since then.
Keith Carlock is very cool. Met him right after he was with Sting, and was going out with Steely Dan after the album was recorded. He did a clinic at the shop, and a bunch of us went to dinner afterwards. He was real cool. People were asking about the Sting gig at the clinic, and if they jammed, but at the dinner, he said it wasn't like that kind of a situation to do that at all. He said it was cool, and top notch pro, but not a "Hey, let's jam "X" deal at all. I think he mentioned meeting Vinnie the day before and stuff, but I don't remember.
The thing that gets me is you're publicly writing a person off as a jerk and we have no idea what glasses you see the world through.