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Atmerrill
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 When in doubt, just roll
At the job last night our bassist takes a solo while the guitarist and I are keeping time. Guy comes out of it and decides he'd like to put 1 in a different spot than where the rest of us had it at (yeah, sweet)....Guitarist (really insecure player) freaks and there we had the making of a wonderful Amtrak disaster. I swear, I just start a double stroke roll on the snare - took my feet off the pedals, just played the snare. Everyone found one again and we were off.
Think I heard that nugget of wisdom from Roy Burns or some older player years ago. It's still good advise. How do you guys recover? - Shy of calling the idiot an a**hole on stage? 
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SGarrett
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I'll generally just change the beat up until we all hit one again.
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cableman26
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I lay my sticks down, look around the room, and then run like hell!!!!
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Atmerrill
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cableman26 wrote:I lay my sticks down, look around the room, and then run like hell!!!!
 
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Alden Merrill
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ctyjones
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Most of the time, everybody's together except the one guy who blows it. In those cases, I make sure everybody sticks to the arrangement that was rehearsed, and the odd-man has to catch up to the rest of us.
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Brother_Bong
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SGarrett
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Brother_Bong
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SGarrett
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Brother_Bong
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Atmerrill
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SGarrett wrote:Bong wrote:SGarrett wrote:Bong wrote:SGarrett wrote:I'll generally just change the beat up until we all hit one again.
Exactly what I do. Huh Garrett, not bad for a kid!  
Like I've said before, chronological age means nothing to me. It's years on the instrument. 
Believe me, I was poking fun at age, NOT ability. From what I've read you know alot more than I do, and thats not sarcastic.
Thank you very much.
I know you were calling me the kid, I just know that some of youngsters around here have that chip on their shoulder. 
Alright, my curiousity is sufficiently piqued: How old do you be? Reading your posts, I wouldn't have guessed you under 21 - any answer you give will be a compliment to your ability vs. calender age argument.
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Brother_Bong
groove master
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Atmerrill wrote:SGarrett wrote:Bong wrote:SGarrett wrote:Bong wrote:SGarrett wrote:I'll generally just change the beat up until we all hit one again.
Exactly what I do. Huh Garrett, not bad for a kid!
Like I've said before, chronological age means nothing to me. It's years on the instrument.
Believe me, I was poking fun at age, NOT ability. From what I've read you know alot more than I do, and thats not sarcastic.
Thank you very much.
I know you were calling me the kid, I just know that some of youngsters around here have that chip on their shoulder.
Alright, my curiousity is sufficiently piqued: How old do you be? Reading your posts, I wouldn't have guessed you under 21 - any answer you give will be a compliment to your ability vs. calender age argument.
Who me? I'm 36, If you were asking SGarrett, hes 30.
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SGarrett
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Atmerrill wrote:SGarrett wrote:Bong wrote:SGarrett wrote:Bong wrote:SGarrett wrote:I'll generally just change the beat up until we all hit one again.
Exactly what I do. Huh Garrett, not bad for a kid!
Like I've said before, chronological age means nothing to me. It's years on the instrument.
Believe me, I was poking fun at age, NOT ability. From what I've read you know alot more than I do, and thats not sarcastic.
Thank you very much.
I know you were calling me the kid, I just know that some of youngsters around here have that chip on their shoulder.
Alright, my curiousity is sufficiently piqued: How old do you be? Reading your posts, I wouldn't have guessed you under 21 - any answer you give will be a compliment to your ability vs. calender age argument.
I'm 30 and I've been playing since 11. And I still have a long way to go with my playing.
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Atmerrill
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Yeah, I was asking Sgarret - not sure why if he's 30 he is getting the kid label.
Bong: Was up in your neck of woods last summer - great drum shop in a strip mall in South Portland - can't remember the name of it - my cousins are in Topsham and So. Freeport - also saw a great group (think out of Boston) who were doing a outdoor concert in one of the squares in downtown Portland - pretty area. Anyway, cheers.
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Ford Drums
Zildjian Cymbals, Aquarian Heads
Vater, Cappella and Vic Firth Sticks
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Brother_Bong
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Atmerrill wrote:Yeah, I was asking Sgarret - not sure why if he's 30 he is getting the kid label.
Bong: Was up in your neck of woods last summer - great drum shop in a strip mall in South Portland - can't remember the name of it - my cousins are in Topsham and So. Freeport - also saw a great group (think out of Boston) who were doing a outdoor concert in one of the squares in downtown Portland - pretty area. Anyway, cheers.
Glad you liked it up here, it is nice. The joke with SGarrett started with a couple of comments in the "first concert" thread. I was razzing him cause he seemed older than me in some of the comments that he made, but come to find out he's not. Just kidding around.
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