Hehehe ... still, speaking for myself, I do my best! One thing I like about the past is that people seemed less angry. Now even the so-called laid-back laconic Aussie is dead and our blogosphere is full of rage-filled misanthropes frothing at the mouth over bullsh ... droppings.
Chatting about of drumming moods and use of space strikes me as far preferable to debating the equivalent of whether expressionism is art. I mean, if it's not photo-realism then a 5 year-old can do it, right?
Is the earth flat? Hell, it looks flat so it must be. The "controversy" about the integration of noise in music was decided eons ago, as per Todd's comment about it being taught in universities for 40 yrs.
Quite a blow to find that my Three Stages of Drummers was ignored in favour of "is drumming music?" (FFS), Maybe those stages only applied to me? Maybe everyone else was too sensible to teach themselves and followed a logical, guided linear progression with the aid of a qualified drum tutor, and I'm the only self-taught loser here??
I had no idea there was such a thing as drum lessons when I started playing. There was no Internet and I knew two drummers at the time, both of whom were self-taught. I mean, why would anyone have drum lessons? After all, drums aren't a proper musical instrument haha (the circle turns).
Of course, back then I thought the occasional Cage and Stockhausen I'd hear on Mum's radio were just noise, now I have recordings of some of their "noise", along with David Behrman and, of course, The Cow ...