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Posted: December 07 2004 at 21:09

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Certif1ed wrote:

Drummers are just guys that hang &n bsp;
around deleted your PM by mistake was it something
important or just your usual drivel with musicians...

Don't know why it did that. ?????

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Posted: December 07 2004 at 21:08

Certif1ed wrote:

Drummers are just guys that hang &n bsp;
around deleted your PM by mistake was it something
important or just your usual drivel with musicians...

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Posted: December 07 2004 at 16:02

Drummers are just guys that hang around with musicians...

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Posted: December 07 2004 at 15:38

Oh I hate drummers

They tick me off. They have created a lot of problems with the bands I've been in, be it one thing or another. I had a drummer who could play "La Villa Strangiato","Cygnus X-1" and lots of other great rush songs but he always refused to play them with us

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Posted: December 07 2004 at 14:43

Drummers are kinda like women...can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em, and a lot of people get outraged if you try to replace one with an electronic device.

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Posted: December 07 2004 at 12:06

Couldn't agree with you more Sigod.
We had to share our drummer with another band.Sometimes we managed to wrestle him away for a couple of months at a time but all the while I was living on tenterhooks,
wondering whether he was going to jump ship.Carrying his stands was a perverse pleasure.Thankfully (or not)as the case may be,the band broke-up before he had the chance to leave.

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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.

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Posted: December 07 2004 at 10:27

As anybody who has been in a band will know, the people who play in it often get chosen by their availability. How many times have we heard the phrase in an interview 'Well, we didn't have a bass player, so I switched to bass from guitar and the rest is history'?

Moreover, in my experience the hardest position to fill in a band is always the drummer. Sure you can find a guy/girl who WANTS to play drums but they either have no drum kit/car or they are just (for the want of a better word) plain sh*t.

Guitarists are always easy to find and sometimes hard to get rid of . However if you find a good drummer, then you have struck gold. What is it about the drum kit that attracts the flakes and stops the rest of us from taking it up?

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