The end.

Actually it was the beginning.

I bought my first LP as opposed to CD and it was called Abbey Road.

I had to learn the drum solo so I could impress my friends who used to hang at my place after tennis lessons. "Oh Yeah," I think that’s how the song ended.

Next stop drum lessons in a kitchen in the outskirts of Liverpool. Not the UK but Sydney's west.

Mr Holland (John) was a great teacher who smoked a B&H extra mild while hand-writing every lesson on a laminex table.

No crotchets here, it was a quarter note!

Hey this makes sense.

A drum tutorial DVD in those days was watching “In Melbourne Tonight” on a 16” black and white TV - "OK kid, that’s a drum kit.”

At that stage my drum kit was a black rubber pad on a stand.

38 years later, here I am writing I think what's called a blog??

Again, wondering why I am sitting here writing this stuff when I could be in my “drum office” (the kit) sitting and playing this great instrument, and wondering whats going to appear next, in the form of a fill or a groove.

All thanks to all the great teachers and musicians I have come across in my time … more to come ….. more music to soak up.

7 August 2007

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