Do you have any other passions besides drums/drumming/drum gear?

[SomeBadDrummer]

I’m a sentimentalist so I like vintage stuff like me. Original pressings of 60’s-70’s vinyl. I’ve collected +/- 150 over the last two years mostly from used record shops. I listen to them on my old hifi, turntable I’ve had since 1983 and studio monitors also from the 80’s. The new solid state computer driven stereos cannot match the warmth of the old tube systems.

I received a coin collector starter kit as a gift when I was about 10, built it up over the years with lots of ordinary coins and a number of rarer ones… a couple going back to Roman era around 90 something AD. I wouldn’t say that I’m passionate about it but I still have the collection.

 

[JoeVermont]

Ham radio (N1DMP)
Giant dogs
Vintage audio gear and LPs
Movies with my lovely wife - mostly at home...

 

[JoeVermont]

I’m a sentimentalist so I like vintage stuff like me. Original pressings of 60’s-70’s vinyl. I’ve collected +/- 150 over the last two years mostly from used record shops. I listen to them on my old hifi, turntable I’ve had since 1983 and studio monitors also from the 80’s. The new solid state computer driven stereos cannot match the warmth of the old tube systems.

I received a coin collector starter kit as a gift when I was about 10, built it up over the years with lots of ordinary coins and a number of rarer ones… a couple going back to Roman era around 90 something AD. I wouldn’t say that I’m passionate about it but I still have the collection.

WHOA! ❤️Those JBL's....

 

[Rochelle Rochelle]

homebrewing
vinyl collecting
adult Lego sets

 

[Hewitt2]

Golf
Vinyl records

 

[C. Dave Run]

Mountain Biking and painting models and miniatures.View attachment 120963View attachment 120964

That miniature is really cool. Have you been to Terra Studios?

Terra Studios

Terra Studios is “using art to create a better world” – a 501c3 nonprofit. Visit the art park & gallery or watch art demos. Free admission; donations encouraged.

usingart.org

 

[Tiges]

Here's a few of my drawings that's our cat named Batman that I drew after he passed away last year my wife holding the frame I made for the drawing the others I drew from a Van Gogh book.

 

[Seafroggys]

Tons. I'm a writer, I've posted about my published novel in the off-topic forum. Also composer/songwriter big time, at different times I considered myself more a composer than a drummer. Also learning the Chapman Stick right now. Love drawing.

Outside of the creative endeavors, I'm a big gamer, especially Paradox grand-strategy games. Big into microbrews and the local beerpub scene. Enjoy driving stick. Huge into fitness. I go to the gym four days a week, focusing on a different barbell lift each day, as well as running tons of accessories like hanging leg lifts, sled pushes, tricep extensions, etc. I used to run 3 days a week but I've taken the past month off due to my knee needing a break.

 

[someguy01]

Instigating.
Research of any kind, it aids in the instigation.
Actual history, also aids in the instigation.

 

[doggyd69b]

Gaming! To me a good video game is comparable to a good book or movie. Take Red Dead Redemption 2 for example. Not going to post spoilers, but the story really drew me in and games these days look more realistic with every passing moment. A good friend of mine lives too far away to meet regularly, so Wednesday eyeing is our 'gaming night' where we play a few games online and just (voice) chat about how life is going etc., so it is also a social 'event' for me. I can really lose myself in the stories and events just like in a good book.

I agree, some games are truly engaging (The Last of Us, Uncharted). Someone discovered that Grand Theft Auto style games (Open world) have so much more than just the main story that you can play the game for years and still not complete every single available quest. Someone in the Xbox camp created the Achievement system to give regular games more replay value, of course Playstation copied that idea but named it trophies. They both cater to men's OCD tendencies (Men are task oriented said Jay Leno when asked by Scarlett Johansson why did the men's urinal had ice in it). just like all those open world games (currently playing Skyrim V not new but new to me. (I don't like paying full retail for games and since I don't have as much time to play now I just get whatever is on sale usually at $20 and with all the DLC. I know the wife or girlfriend hates it when we play games, but would they rather we went out drinking with our buddies?
My other hobbies: Guitar recording , video editing, computer security, woodworking, motorcycles, learning new instruments (currently teaching myself violin and piano). Watching YT , learning something new every day.

 

[cdar]

Cooking……
Programming, coding…….(yes, for fun…)
Hiking, fishing, outdoors…..
Weed…. haha, yea, why not!

Although, as a soon to be empty nesters and retirees soon thereafter, we (wife n I) realize that we need more hobbies and things to do……

 

[PorkPieGuy]

What are some of your other passions besides drumming?

If I'm not drumming, working, and spending time with my family, I play a few games on my phone from time to time. However, I don't have any other hobbies, passions, or pastimes. I have neither the time, money, nor the interest in anything else.

Besides my family, music is all I have.

 

[Liam]

Outside of drums my hobbies are history, F1 racing, and sleeping.

 

[doggyd69b]

My house. I spend more waking hours working on my house than anything else. I do all of it.

I also like cars, games (video and not), tattoos, woodworking, guns, animals, mechanics, and cleaning. Yes cleaning. I clean everyday. Because I want to.

I spend a lot of time cleaning not really because I want to but because I am removing stupid green carpet ,(we just bought the house and the old lady that sold it to us had bad taste) plus we hate carpet so I am removing one room at a time and putting wood flooring for a total of 5 rooms , two closets, and two hallways basically about 3000sf..... I am almost done with the first half of that. the floors are done save for some trim at the edges, then I got to paint that monster living room which has 25 ft high walls, the dining room, the kitchen and of course all those rooms upstairs which all in all they amount to 5000 sf including the room above the garage which now has a pool table that they left behind and I need to get rid of. That pool table room is going to become my drum room, but of course I have to first finish all the other rooms... and the final part of all that would be the other 2 car garage which is going to become my tool shed/woodworking shop, and redo the car garage properly, I put those super bright LED lights which improved the view significantly on both garages added pegboard walls to the shop, and have plans for that drum room but one thing at a time, I still have to work full time so I do this during my "time off"...

 

[Stickandbrush]

Mountain biking (XC), sea kayaking, ice climbing, gardening.

 

[C. Dave Run]

I spend a lot of time cleaning not really because I want to but because I am removing stupid green carpet ,(we just bought the house and the old lady that sold it to us had bad taste) plus we hate carpet so I am removing one room at a time and putting wood flooring for a total of 5 rooms , two closets, and two hallways basically about 3000sf..... I am almost done with the first half of that. the floors are done save for some trim at the edges, then I got to paint that monster living room which has 25 ft high walls, the dining room, the kitchen and of course all those rooms upstairs which all in all they amount to 5000 sf including the room above the garage which now has a pool table that they left behind and I need to get rid of. That pool table room is going to become my drum room, but of course I have to first finish all the other rooms... and the final part of all that would be the other 2 car garage which is going to become my tool shed/woodworking shop, and redo the car garage properly, I put those super bright LED lights which improved the view significantly on both garages added pegboard walls to the shop, and have plans for that drum room but one thing at a time, I still have to work full time so I do this during my "time off"...View attachment 121087View attachment 121088View attachment 121089View attachment 121090View attachment 121091View attachment 121092View attachment 121093View attachment 121094View attachment 121095View attachment 121096

That's beautiful. Much bigger than mine. I'm about 1100sf.

Your starting point is also much nicer than mine was. I'm not done yet, but it's getting there.

 

[doggyd69b]

I got a brindle (tawny) and white, male, short haired, red nose pit bull with yellow eyes named Jack that has stolen my heart for the last 4 months.

Talk about your return on investment...

I got a weimaraner named Blue who weighs 78.5 Lbs and a Pitbull named Sasha who weighs 75.6 they always are very happy to see me come home.

 

[doggyd69b]

That's beautiful. Much bigger than mine. I'm about 1100sf.

Your starting point is also much nicer than mine was. I'm not done yet, but it's getting there.

Yes all my last 3 houses were fine to live in them as they were, I just paint and fix things to make them look better, (and since I had to sell may last 2 houses, that helped me make $$). Yes it is a lot of work, but the end result is a place that I can be proud of but most importantly the wife can be proud to show others.

 

[doggyd69b]

Ham radio (N1DMP)
Giant dogs
Vintage audio gear and LPs
Movies with my lovely wife - mostly at home...

Giant as in make a bear look puny? My kind of dog

 

[Over50drumguy]

Other than my first passion of spending time and doing things with my wife and 3 late teen to mid 20’s daughters …….

I love almost everything outdoors , except the bugs !
Hunting/guns/archery
Fishing … salt/fresh
Camping/hiking
Vegetable gardening and general landscape design/stone and such projects around the house.
Cooking ( since I was a young kid) and nutrition since being diagnosed type ll diabetic( controlled no meds) 7 years ago.
Exercise/swimming/gym as much as my beat up injury ridden old body will tolerate.

And of course this little pile of ramen noodles