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Hey everybody!
I’ve posted a few times but haven’t introduced myself. I’m Ryan from sunny Bakersfield, CA, home of the “Bakersfield Sound”. Buck, Merle, Red Simpson and many others pioneered that sound here. Although I grew up with it all around me, and it’s in the blood, I’m not really a country music fan.
Ironically enough, as a trailer trash white kid growing up in a poor, racist community north of Bakersfield, my first musical influence was old soul records (Stax, Muscle Shoals, Motown, etc...). My best buddy was a McGyver-type kid who rigged up some weird antenna that got us a soul, blues, R&B FM station from St. Louis, of all places. We would listen for hours each day after school.
Later on would come 70’s AM pop, which remains a guilty pleasure to this day, followed by all the big rock influences of the 70’s and 80’s. My drum epiphany came with “Message In A Bottle” when I was 8. I had been banging on the pots and pans and air drumming since I was 2 or 3, but The Police were my first real HOLY SH!T drum moment. Got an old beater MIJ set the next year and have been playing ever since. I’m in 3 bands in the Bakersfield area and was gigging quite regularly before the virus hit. Looking forward to it picking back up.
This downtime has found me practicing a ton and recording demo tracks for friends and bandmates to keep fresh and in the groove. I am a fan of Yamaha drums, vintage Ludwig snare drums, and Paiste cymbals, especially their Masters Thins and Extra Thins. I’ve been on several forums over the last 20 years. I was Ryno on Cymbalholic and Drummer Cafe and rculberson on DFO, which I recently left due to some sour grapes fouling things up. Looking forward to contributing here.
Thanks for having me!
Ryan
I’ve posted a few times but haven’t introduced myself. I’m Ryan from sunny Bakersfield, CA, home of the “Bakersfield Sound”. Buck, Merle, Red Simpson and many others pioneered that sound here. Although I grew up with it all around me, and it’s in the blood, I’m not really a country music fan.
Ironically enough, as a trailer trash white kid growing up in a poor, racist community north of Bakersfield, my first musical influence was old soul records (Stax, Muscle Shoals, Motown, etc...). My best buddy was a McGyver-type kid who rigged up some weird antenna that got us a soul, blues, R&B FM station from St. Louis, of all places. We would listen for hours each day after school.
Later on would come 70’s AM pop, which remains a guilty pleasure to this day, followed by all the big rock influences of the 70’s and 80’s. My drum epiphany came with “Message In A Bottle” when I was 8. I had been banging on the pots and pans and air drumming since I was 2 or 3, but The Police were my first real HOLY SH!T drum moment. Got an old beater MIJ set the next year and have been playing ever since. I’m in 3 bands in the Bakersfield area and was gigging quite regularly before the virus hit. Looking forward to it picking back up.
This downtime has found me practicing a ton and recording demo tracks for friends and bandmates to keep fresh and in the groove. I am a fan of Yamaha drums, vintage Ludwig snare drums, and Paiste cymbals, especially their Masters Thins and Extra Thins. I’ve been on several forums over the last 20 years. I was Ryno on Cymbalholic and Drummer Cafe and rculberson on DFO, which I recently left due to some sour grapes fouling things up. Looking forward to contributing here.
Thanks for having me!
Ryan