Larry
"Uncle Larry"
I was just sitting here considering the impact on myself as a drummer as a result of the internet. It is just collossal, gigantic, enormous, monumental, humungous , gargantuan....
Great googley-moogley if I had to go back to the way it was up until about 1990...knowing what I know now...it would be like being banished to Siberia.
Basically speaking...I had NO ONE to talk to about drumming for 38 years. 1970 to 2008. OK I had some teachers, and I did know a handful of drummers, but there was no community. Modern Drummer was my lone monthly pilgrimage. I used to roll every drumstick I got on the glass counter of my local music store, much to the ay-yi-yi-ness of the petrified music shop owner.
I had so much drum stuff in my head, all my life, even after 15000 posts it just keeps making itself fresh every day.
That's why I post so much here because I went through 38 years of almost total drummer isolation. The only other drummers I talked to were guys in my local scene. And it was nothing like what is discussed here.
If it wasn't for DW, I wouldn't have this vast library of gear knowledge, attitude knowledge...I shudder to think. My horizons have been so expanded....I've traveled to England and California through the kindness of members here, memories that I will treasure forever. I've always wanted to see California but never made it, and England was the first European nation I wanted to visit. Done and done.
The point is, where the F would I be without all this. I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but my drumming really started turning around in 2008, the year I joined here. I could tell by the reactions I was getting, I started to find my groove. I think this place is largely responsible for it. It's like a pressure relief valve for me. Imagine having to go back to the way it was? No YouTube?
(runs away screaming)
AHHHHHHHHHHH!
I'm sorry for the novel.
Great googley-moogley if I had to go back to the way it was up until about 1990...knowing what I know now...it would be like being banished to Siberia.
Basically speaking...I had NO ONE to talk to about drumming for 38 years. 1970 to 2008. OK I had some teachers, and I did know a handful of drummers, but there was no community. Modern Drummer was my lone monthly pilgrimage. I used to roll every drumstick I got on the glass counter of my local music store, much to the ay-yi-yi-ness of the petrified music shop owner.
I had so much drum stuff in my head, all my life, even after 15000 posts it just keeps making itself fresh every day.
That's why I post so much here because I went through 38 years of almost total drummer isolation. The only other drummers I talked to were guys in my local scene. And it was nothing like what is discussed here.
If it wasn't for DW, I wouldn't have this vast library of gear knowledge, attitude knowledge...I shudder to think. My horizons have been so expanded....I've traveled to England and California through the kindness of members here, memories that I will treasure forever. I've always wanted to see California but never made it, and England was the first European nation I wanted to visit. Done and done.
The point is, where the F would I be without all this. I don't know if it's just a coincidence, but my drumming really started turning around in 2008, the year I joined here. I could tell by the reactions I was getting, I started to find my groove. I think this place is largely responsible for it. It's like a pressure relief valve for me. Imagine having to go back to the way it was? No YouTube?
(runs away screaming)
AHHHHHHHHHHH!
I'm sorry for the novel.