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ed_zeppelin

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...an unusual turn
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2016, 09:09:50 AM »
quote:I will surely remember that guy who had to dress in drag to play his drumkit atop a piano while sight reading, for everyone to see!!!
 
Wow! I'll bet that was a once-in-a-lifetime spectacle! I can't imagine it. Not the drums on piano or the guy in a dress (I was born in the SF Bay Area and grew up in southern California, so that wouldn't even surprise me), but a drummer sight reading? Now that would be something to see!

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« Reply #16 on: March 08, 2016, 09:35:49 AM »
The keyboard player in my band  Easy Wind  is also  a percissionist and plays the The Vibes  , he actually has a degree in music and sight reads very well as well as  drum notation and knows all the drum rudiments !  
He is a High School music teacher.  
I read but love to improvise using concepts of classical counterpoint along the way .  
 
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...an unusual turn
« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2016, 09:47:47 AM »
These are rare animals which cannot be easily spotted in the wild  But there are some. I am friends with a wonderful drummer (Although have had not the chance to play together again for a few years, unfortunately!). He's one of these guys from around here who, in the late 70s-early 80s had the chance to travel to the US to study music there and was an alumnus of the Drummers Collective, knew and learned a lot from Mr. Kenwood Dennard himself, is an orchestral percussionist and yes, is not only a fantastic drummer, but also a very skillful sight reader.  
 
However, at about 260 pounds, very hairy and with a massive beard, to watch him playing a drumset above a piano while on drag, would be something else entirely...