Erberderber
Senior Member
I wouldn't have learnt that serving the music is so much more important than showing off. I wouldn't have understood the importance of heads and tuning either. Those among many other things.
hahaha i need this in a t-shirt!!!!!DrummerWorld allows me to talk drums whenever I want. Because of this, I've gotten to meet all of you fantastic folks. The depth of personality and experience on board is astounding. One can find info about ANYTHING here if you just look around. And like many others, my long lost sibling exists here too.
DW has made me a better drummer. I like finding fun things to learn in the Technique section. The fact that teachers actively participate on the site makes learning even better.
I have found so much good music because of DW. This is a gift in itself.
And because of DW, other drummers can laugh at this:
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did he play a blast beat on that kit??A few forum member meet shots
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still holding the sack of dead clams...
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guy in the back trying to slide the snare in his bag
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We love you, too! All the best to you, always!Just stumbled over this thread and read my name all over the place - i'm humbled. Thank you so much.
In reality my contributions are not so big. Of course i started the forum many many years ago - but with the help
of Gruntersdad, Bermuda, Andy and new Supergrobi my workload is minimal.
I'm in my seventies and health is not the best - will never be. But i'm absolutely fine - better than ever - but i had to stop
traveling around the world already 10 years ago and now also stopped drumming. Please no condolences: i had my time - really lol!!
So i concentrate foremost on the website Drummerworld, but also there it's not the same as twenty years ago.
The times then every picture i had to scan (steal) from old Magazines and every pic of Steve Gadd or Buddy Rich was a
sensation. Uploading Videos was also spectacular because: Youtube didn't exist - Google did not exist - Wikipedia did not exist.
Also the forums seem to go down everywhere - but this doesn't count for Drummerworld - no miracle with such nice and friendly contributors.
But anyway: Drummerworld is still No. 1 and ads i reduced to the minimum.
So i hope we can continue some good years and i thank Uncle Larry who started the thread for always beeing so helpful and Agrippina - managing my Wikipedia site - and of course all of you friends, drummers and posters.
I love you all
Bernhard
Yes, Wales. The castles all have spiral staircases it seemed and I got dizzy by the time I got to the top. The stone walls were so incredibly thick, like 8 feet. What a Herculean effort that must have been to construct. Skinny little windows for the archers. Absolutely life changing. We are so soft compared to the people back then. I instantly fell in love with the whole package.
I loved your Country. The history, wow, holy crap. After I came back to the States...I was really disgusted with my own Country. For like 2 weeks, for real. Your Country was that much better for me. Everything is so cheap here, the houses, everything. Fake brick, fake stone, fake pillars...A lot of houses are identical to their neighbors, a lot of them look the same. Not in England. I saw not 1 house that looked the same as another while I was there. That alone right there is a big deal to me.
Every structure was made of masonry as far as I could tell. Maybe not the thatched roof house. Probably mandated after the Great Fire of London in 1666 I'm guessing. The supermarkets are SO superior to what we have here. Much more refrigerated (read real) food. I really dug it over there. The castles absolutely knocked me out. I Imagine they are no big deal to you guys ha ha. I saw where Hereford beef comes from. The gypsies took me by surprise. No one told me about them. Just incredible. No way could the things I saw over there happen here. You can't just pull over on a public road and stay for a few days haha. That will get me arrested here. Wales was a real treat too. One thing I learned there...don't try and pronounce the Welsh words using the Yankee way to sound out syllables lol.
It's a fun place to hang but it's serious as well. There are people here ready in a moment's notice to help you with your craft be it equiptment choices or technique issues and everything in between. It's literally a step towards a free education. I have alot of fun swimming in the pool here but many times situations are over my head and that's when I sit back to listen and learn.
For he's a jolly good fellow!Just stumbled over this thread and read my name all over the place - i'm humbled. Thank you so much.
In reality my contributions are not so big. Of course i started the forum many many years ago - but with the help
of Gruntersdad, Bermuda, Andy and new Supergrobi my workload is minimal.
I'm in my seventies and health is not the best - will never be. But i'm absolutely fine - better than ever - but i had to stop
traveling around the world already 10 years ago and now also stopped drumming. Please no condolences: i had my time - really lol!!
So i concentrate foremost on the website Drummerworld, but also there it's not the same as twenty years ago.
The times then every picture i had to scan (steal) from old Magazines and every pic of Steve Gadd or Buddy Rich was a
sensation. Uploading Videos was also spectacular because: Youtube didn't exist - Google did not exist - Wikipedia did not exist.
Also the forums seem to go down everywhere - but this doesn't count for Drummerworld - no miracle with such nice and friendly contributors.
But anyway: Drummerworld is still No. 1 and ads i reduced to the minimum.
So i hope we can continue some good years and i thank Uncle Larry who started the thread for always beeing so helpful and Agrippina - managing my Wikipedia site - and of course all of you friends, drummers and posters.
I love you all
Bernhard
Yep. A collapse in that principle in education has produced the wave of madness we are experiencing in the world today.I think if more people would admit to this in daily life, things wouldn't be so bad
I've always been fascinated by outsiders views. The 'reaction' music videos feed off that fascination, so it's not just me.I felt the same way coming back from Ireland too...so much that is not fake
but it is interesting b/c someone who lives there probably can call out all kinds of things "wrong", but they can't be as wrong, or false as things are here. @nicholasBR and I talk about that in lessons sometimes
Yep. A collapse in that principle in education has produced the wave of madness we are experiencing in the world today.
Hope it IS just a wave, too...
I've always been fascinated by outsiders views. The 'reaction' music videos feed off that fascination, so it's not just me.
When I was at the Guru stand in Manchester with you Andy, I saw Jojo a few meters away. I went to him and introduced myself (we had met already but he didn't recognize me) and I gave him a copy of my book. Never heard of him since ;-)I don't remember dropping the F bomb (but not exactly unknown for me), just politely (but possibly firmly) refusing to do something because of the enquirer's status.