ISSA - International Slalom Skateboarding Association

I noticed at the G3 that there were a whole bunch of drummers, myself included. Lets see...I know a talked drums with KMG, G-X and GBJ at some point during the weekend. Are they any more of us out there......maybe we need to start drums circles at the races.

Maybe the rest of us could all smash our thumbs with hammers and see if we can scream in tune?

What's the difference between a dead squirrel in the road and a dead drummer laying right beside it?

The squirrel was probably on his way to a gig!

ok....this is for people that can play or have played....not people who have terrible drummer jokes to share. This includes you stevep. WES, come to the farm...we can practice paradiddles.

heh - there were skid marks in front of the squirrel...

just say no to drum circles...what is this? a phish show? GeezerX, help me here - throw some punk rock sensibilities into this mix.

- what do you call a drummer without a girlfriend?

- homeless.

steve

mmmm, paradiddles... lrllrlrrlrllrlrr....

yes, drummer here also, i miss my '71 slingerland set more than anything..

Yes steve this IS a phish show.....jk. I did talk drums with geezer at the G3...he told me about his giant double bass drums....scary. And Steve.....just becase you look like Dave Grohl doesnt mean you can play drums.....or does it?. So thats 2 drummers so far.......

I played kit for 7 years and was in a New Orleans Jazz band in middle shool. We played gigs at seafood restaurants and senior citizens homes. I play percussion now in a concert band.

i rock out on the drums to some drum corps stuff but thats about it. otherwise i'm a guitar/bass/piano/tuba player. but i always have the cadets street beat playing in my head when I slalom. does that count?

Brian

sure that counts....I really thinkhave internal time helps with slalom. Im always singing beats in time with my pump. when I 6 foot straight cones I just pick a rudiment or groove and think of it while I am running the cones, helps a lot. Offsets are fills or somthing else and then back into the groove. There is music in everything.

Q. How do you get a drummer to stop playing?
A. Put some sheet music in front of him.

I spent the last 3 years in school for music....I CAN read....come on Wes. I know your funnier than that.

Is it just me, or did anyone else notice that in the tremendous explosion of music and computer technology in the 1980s, the first thing everyone insisted on was a machine to replace the drummer?

I used to be a drummer. In a “Young Commi” school band. I’m also in the sport bikes and alpine snowboards. So, if you’re a Commi, a drummer, a sport biker, a slalomer and an alpine snowboarder, lets get a separate forum. If one of the conditions does not apply to you, nevermind then.

Ok, just to be fair:

How do you get two saxophonists to plays in tune?
SHOOT ONE!

OK wes.....its getting better. At least you chose a different instrument. Ok, what the range of an oboe?.......50 yrds. Man that was a bad joke.

What do you call a drummer with a beeper?
An optimist.

A drummer asked his son, "Junior, daddy got paid a big bonus for playing that wedding last weekend. I can get anything you want. What would you like for Christmas?"

"A daddy who plays trombone!"

y'all forced my hand - got three:

why is a drum solo like a sneeze?
you know it's coming and there's nothing you can do about it.

personal favorite:
A man goes to an exotic tropical island for a vacation. As the boat nears the island, he notices the constant sound of drumming coming from the island. As he gets off the boat, he asks the first native he sees how long the drumming will go on. The native casts about nervously and says "very bad when the drumming stops."

At the end of the day, the drumming is still going and is starting to get on his nerves. So, he asks another native when the drumming will stop. The native looks as if he's just been reminded of something very unpleasant. "Very bad when the drumming stops," he says, and hurries off.

After a couple of days with little sleep, our traveller is finally fed up, grabs the nearest native, slams him up against a tree, and shouts "What happens when the drumming stops?!!"

"Bass solo."

one last one...

If a dollar bill was laying in the center of a room, and the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, a drummer with good time, and a drummer with bad time were standing in the corners, who would get the money?

The drummer with bad time since the other three don't exist.

Hey, I'm a percussionist, so y'all just kiss my foot (he says in deference to the faint of heart.) I've been playing spoons since I was eight years old!

"She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes, (clickety click)"
"She'll be comin' 'round the mountain when she comes, (clickety click)"
"She'll be drivin' six white horses,"
"She'll be drivin' six white horses,"
"She'll be drivin' six white horses when she comes, (clickety click)"

A bass player and a drummer are walking home one night from a gig. The quickest way back to their girlfriends' apartments is on the railroad tracks.

The bass player says, "This is the longest staircase I ever saw."
The drummer says, "yeah, it wouldn't be so bad, though, if the hand rail was a little higher!"

i went to see Blue Man Group last night on their "rock" tour - counting the blue men - 7 drummers on stage! i'm amazed they find the stage every night.

Q: why are intermissions only 20 minutes?
A: so they don't have to re-train the drummers

(btw, for all the crap i sling towards drummers - i am a huge fan of drums/tight rythmn sections and last night was downright bad-ass with 4 full kits and 3 other percussion structures)

how do you know the stage is level. cause the drewl is coming from both sides of the drummers mouth.

Brian

What's the difference between the a bull and the lawrence Welk Orchestra?








On a bull, the horns are in the front, and the assh@le is in the back...

Started playing the drums about 10 years after I started skating, and it was punk rock and being in bands that finally pried my attention from skating. Not that being a drummer in a punk band necessarily gets one laid in a regular fashion, but your likelyhood is greater than that if one spends all their time alone in a parking lot wiggling through cones looking like Henry Hester...

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Q: What's the difference between a drum and an onion?

A: Nobody cries when you cut up a drum!

(Got kind of quiet around here. Didn't want Civ to think I didn't care.)

Thanks Wes...I though this thread died long ago. Good to see you still care.

What's the last thing a drummer says in a band before he gets fired?

"Hey, guys, I wrote a couple of songs. Think we can work them up?"

I'll bet you thought I forgot about this topic, huh?

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Q - What do you call a band without a drummer?
A - Successful.
 
Q - What do you call a woman who knows where her percussionist husband is every night?
A - A Widow
 
During a break in the Battle Of The Bands contest at the local county fair, a drummer walks up to a pop machine, puts in his money, pushes a button, gets a pop. He puts more money in, pushes a button gets a pop. He puts more money in, pushes a button, gets a pop. The guy standing behind him waiting says "Hey Ringo, are you done yet??" The drummer turns around and said "SHHHH!! I'm winning."

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Now, I fully understand that a topic was generated specifically for the posting and transmission of various and asundry observations regarding the flamming and whamming arts.

If I used that forum, though, I wouldn't be aggrevating the hell out of Civ! What fun would that be?

I've been playing for about 5 years now. I finally got a set to be reckoned with. I got 7 cymbals, Iron Cobra double bass pedal and a jam block!

Now this is weird.
Josh has picked up drums in the school band and is doing very well They made him play one year of sax before he could touch the drums.

We watch Drumline the movie way to much around here.

Josh also plays a very mean red Fender Strat. He's taken lessons for three and a helf years now and did 3 years of piano before that. Something to be said for slalom and good timing.

I can't take drumline. Even though I play I still found it really boring.

Yeah, I'm with you. A thirteen year old thinks it's very cool.

Back in the day, a field snare drum sounded like it had some balls. Now, they tune em up so tight they sound tinny and thin, but the rebound is much greater so the drummers don't have to work so hard.

It's all because of DCI. "Back in the day" (meaning before 1975 and Madison,) bands used to MARCH and PLAY all over the field in all directions. The brass and percussion had to have a full range in order to be heard when pointing the other way.

With the advent of corps-style marching and DCI-inspired drill, now it's all about VOLUME in ONE DIRECTION. Although lately the drill is not as bad as it was 15 years ago, it's still a lot of walking and then standing and playing towards the judges. Corps (and consequently bands in general,) just don't march and play anymore. They do a lot of drill, a lot of playing but rarely at the same time. Consequently the instruments themselves have becomes more attuned (no pun intended,) at projecting sound in ONE DIRECTION. What good is it sitting in the end zone when a band plays if all the drums have sound shells projecting the sound only to the side lines? If you're on the 50-yard line (where the judges sit,) you're in for a great show.

Everybody else can go get a soda and some nachoes and wait for the second half.

Besides, let's all admit the truth: marching went straight to hell when the Bayonne Banana Bridgemen decided to call it quits. It ain't been the same since!