Why Are Good Drummers So Rare?

mikedevilsfan wrote: Woah Woah woah, slow down there children. As a prog Drummer I can honestly say that it's harder to find a bassist and a singer tan a drummer, no question. Take it from a guy who has searched high and low for non flakes, it goes both way. I also do some of the aranging (for all you non musician jokesters out there). Michael

You're onto a losing streak here mate. No-one hails the worth of a good drummer and to get the rest of a band to consider the stick-man as a fellow musician would be a miracle. I know from personal experience and it's why I switched to guitar .

For what it's worth you are part of an elite group and prog would be lost without you  

trouble was that one of the one who could write also wanted to write the music and insisted on wasting hours in rehearsals tapping away at piano keys in the search for the notes that were in his addled head but not within his ambit as a pianist.  

Being a good guitar player/singer/ego-maniac I fired him....

Finding a great drummer is like finding a pair of lesbians who are willing to help you with your amateur pole dancing documentary.

A psychologist wants to undertake research into IQs and professions so posts a message in various places asking for volunteers to come and tell her what jobs they do.

The first to arrive at the office is striking looking woman in a sharp business suit.

"What's your IQ" asks the psych.

"145" says the woman.

"Oh, impressive and your job?"

"Brain surgeon."

"Very good, thanks" says the woman.

this is a repeared several times with varying results, "150 - Astrophysicist", "140 - trial lawyer" etc until a rather disreputable figure with lank greasy hair and pizza on his sweater walks through the door.

"So," says the psych. "What's your IQ"

"Duuuuhhhhhhhhh 75," says the ne'er-do-well.

"I see. So.... what sticks do you use?"

Life imitating art. Remember Jeff Porcaro of Toto who really DID die in a bizzare gardening accident. Allergic reaction to some weed killer I'm told. Poor bastard.

^ HA!  

  Next time I o'erindulge, and puke beer through my nose (very, very, VERY rare occurance, these last 15 or so years, thank cod!), I'll save it in a bucket for all you British "real ale" drinkers, and fans of bottle-conditioned brews....

"Re-fermented in bucket -- contents will be naturally cloudy."

  Mmmmmmm! Lumpy!

You know some one really died from choking on someone elses vomit:

On 7 March 2002, the Saskatoon StarPhoenix in Saskatchewan, Canada, citing witnesses inside the Pine Grove Correctional Centre, reported that some female ex-heroin addicts so desperately crave methadone that they routinely consume the fresh vomit of fellow inmates currently on methadone treatment because enough is still present in the regurgitation. The newspaper uncovered the practice while investigating the death of an inmate. Said a source, "The whole building knows (that the inmate choked on vomit). That's how she died." —from News of the Weird, compiled by Chuck Shepherd

...and Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs, whose cause of death was (officially) choking on vomit.

Off the record, of course, it's not clear whose vomit it was...