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I am a Seattle area drummer. I started playing drums when i was 15 years old. i took up the drums influenced by drummers like Ringo, John Bonham, Charlie Watts, Mitch Mitchell and Ginger Baker, Don Brewer. I am basically a rock drummer through and through 2 and 4 groove drummer. . My first drum set was the stuffed arms of an old chair in my room where I would beat on the arms of the chair with drum sticks I had made for myself from wood dowels in wood shop at school. Anyway daily i would beat on the arms of the chair wearing holes in the material playing along to my favorite vinyl records on an old record player. When i decided i had enough of the chair one day i would hear this garage band in the neighbor-hood. A bunch of us locals were standing outside listening. Then suddenly the garage door opened and there stood this tall guy who's name they called Beak. I introduced myself and said that i like to play drums. Beak had this mixed vintage style kit of various mismatch colors of blue and red sparkle "Jelly Bean" it would be called today. Beak invited me to try the kit and sit down with his buddies and play a song. One of the guys who I can't remember his name asked me what song i would like to play? I told him I would like to try "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling Stones. The kit had an cowbell so i began to play the intro to Honky Tonk Woman remembering the song from memory from playing the song from back on the old arm chair of my room. Well it was amazing to me to say the least I was able to play that song all the way through and a first time on an actual real drum-set. Well after that i knew i had to have a drum-set because now i new what i wanted and what i wanted to do was play drums. Well i went to work delivering News Papers in my local neighbor-hood and saved up every cent i could to get my first drum-set. I was down town Seattle one day with $100 in my pocket and saw this Red Sparkle cheap Crown Kit made from Philippine mahogany for $99.00. That was my first kit and it had those cheap brass cymbals that would bend and warp every time i hit them but it was a kit and i played that thing. From then on its just been drums drums drums obsession that I never get tired of. Here i am 54yo and i still love the drums as much as when i first started. I just keep playing with whoever wants to play and have fun with it. I used to play in a cover band at 19yo that had management and would be flown to Alaska and play at clubs in places like Sitka Alaska. Eventually i quit that band and decided i would not play in cover bands anymore and began to play in original rock bands from then on in the Seattle area. I still prefer the challenges of original music and bands that do their own creative material. If you want to talk about music and drums feel free to contact me. There is nothing i like better than to talk drums and share my experience about drum gear and drumming.

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