The second time through, it occurs to me as I watch him play this tube like a bass (except with a drumstick). This is -the- instrument for D&B tunes.

Braise The Lard!

Why is the drummer using dildoes instead of drumsticks?

I just caught Peart and Rush in the R30 concert from Frankfurt, Germany in 2004 and he has a 360° kit with more drums, cymbals bells and xylophones than you could shake your drumsticks at. I'll give props to the 13 year old and even to Tony Royster if we're comparing, but I don't think either could keep up with Niel. That said, he's 50+, has had umpteen years of experience at this point and, eh, I'll guess did not have this level of talent at their age. But you always look up to others don't you? I can't imagine that Niel had that level of drummer to idolize 30 some odd years ago...

I played this guy at rock band. Beat him with 1 drumstick.

Little known fact that half-way through the song, Nick loses a drumstick, but still doesn't miss a beat.

Goddammn. did I spell goddamn wrong, too??!!! The effect is, Aussies Love Ostrisscehs....! me too, put one on the smoker, and a drumstick for 7, whilst we wait!

Check out Tony Levin playing his bass with shortened drumsticks attached to his fingers. Got that from the Gabriel era - "Big Time," "Secret World," and "Steam," to be specific. He calls them "Funk Fingers." Oh, and for you bass people, it's an Ernie Ball Stingray in its various forms that Levin plays.

"Approximately 73% of all drummers will undergo facial reconstruction surgery due to fractured drumstick piercing accidents."

So... how does chopping the end off the drumstick make it cook quicker? All it does is remove the thinnest part of the drumstick (which cooks faster anyway) and causes the rest of the meat to bunch up, presumably increasing the cooking time. What am I missing?

Dark & twisted political comedy (as usual!) from Monkey Dust...

Omar, Abdul and Shafiq, the useless terrorists

Omar is a fanatical Islamist and a member of a terrorist organization he calls 'The International Revolutionary Jihad for the Liberation of the Islamic Republic of Great Britain'. His cell is based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands in the UK and is bent on "unleashing a reign of terror the like of which the world has only dreamed about in its foulest nightmares." Omar has recruited two teenage boys, Abdul and Shafiq, to carry out suicide bombings in the name of Allah, but through various comical misadventures, their plans always fail.

The effectiveness of their terror campaign is somewhat undermined by the fact that they seem to take their jihad for granted and treat it with the same offhandedness as the mundane details of their daily lives such as sport and television.

Omar is the privileged son of a wealthy family and a public schoolboy (he attended Charterhouse, but failed to get into Oxford or Cambridge and had to settle for Bristol). His vehement rhetoric calls for the swift and merciless destruction of the infidel, however he is careful to leave all the dangerous aspects of their activities to the two boys and keep himself out of harm's way as much as possible.

Abdul and Shafiq are thoroughly typical English youths in nearly every way. They are avid supporters of West Bromwich Albion F.C., spend a great deal of time watching mindless pop-entertainment television programmes such as Stars in Their Eyes and Pop Idol, and eat processed junk foods, i.e Bernard Matthews' turkey drumsticks with barbeque beans, or Findus' crispy pancakes. Their plotting often takes place in Shafiq's home where Shafiq's mother, Mrs. Khan, brings them drinks and snacks and seems untroubled by what they're up to: "You can leave your Jihad 'til after dinner!"

In the conclusion of Series 3, Omar sends Abdul and Shafiq to Iraq, while staying in the UK himself because "he couldn't change his dental appointment" but goes down the pub instead. The boys complain that terrorist training is "worse than PE". They meet a friend and fellow West Bromwich fan among the British soldiers who detain them before being captured and imprisoned in Abu Ghraib by American troops ("This is the best holiday I've ever had!").

It's possible the inspiration for this depiction of radical Islamicist ideology in the midst of otherwise normal modern British life comes from the detention of the so-called Tipton Three at Camp X-Ray. In Monkey Dust's sketches, Omar the ringleader is said to come from Tipton, where the jihad is taken "dead serious". - Wiki

Cab Calloway appears with Betty Boop in the Talkartoon Minnie the Moocher, Betty's 17th cartoon appearance. This is justifiably one of the most famous cartoons ever made.

The cartoon begins with actual film footage of Cab Calloway dancing a slow and sensuous dance in front of his orchestra, the former Missourians, while they perform the Prohibition Blues. This is the oldest known film footage of Cab. His attire is uncharacteristically casual, and we never get a good look at his face. We suspect that Cab wasn't aware that the Fleischers were going to use the actual footage. Cab was well-known for his love of good clothes and his high standards for professional dress.

The haunting and beautiful instrumental, Prohibition Blues, is an old Missourians piece that was recorded by them in early 1930, right before Cab took over as leader of their band. This cartoon has the only recording of the piece with Cab Calloway. By early 1932, when this cartoon was produced, the group had been renamed "Cab Calloway and His Orchestra," but in this film, they are still wearing their old Missourians uniforms. We can see the drummer, Leroy Maxey, playing with his drumsticks in the background.

Yeah agree with Nebosuke, drummers these days tend to have huge kits with 50 different elements and dont really seems to know how to use 'em...

And benjee, there is no right or wrong way to hold the drumsticks, the "traditional grip" ( that you call the correct one ) and the "matching grip" where you hold both sticks the same way both have their pro's and con's
Stick holding techniques occasionally cause considerable
debate amongst students and educators alike.

A history of traditional grip (from the web not from me ) :
he traditional grip originated with marching drummers
who were playing a snare drum slung over the shoulder on a strap.
The angulation of the drum required the drummer to reach around
the drum with the left hand and grip the stick differently. The
'Traditional Grip' was born at that time. The 'Match Grip'
wasn't feasible in this very awkward and different marching
situation. The Traditional Grip originated sometime during the
1500/1600s.
Drum sets were not created or invented until about 1840.
The first drum set drummers were of course, marching drummers
initially. So, as they sat down to play their new drum kits,
they assumed the traditional grip as if they were playing
a marching snare. As they taught others to play . . . the
old traditional grip continued to be the grip of choice and
eventually became 'set in stone' as the ONLY way to hold the
sticks.
Sometime between 1955 and 1965 . . . the lights went
on! In the mid-1960s Ringo Starr (with the Beatles) made
several million dollars while holding a match grip.


I believe drummers should learn to use both grips, but there's so much to learn to play drums and learning to play both grips is very secondary when it comes to playing well.

Either this kid is a child prodigy of the highest order or it's not really very hard to drum.

*shields face from barrage of drumsticks*

lol snare drum drumstick duels!

great post!