I remember reading three William Shakespeare plays during my junior high and high school years, Romeo And Juliet, The Tempest, and The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar. As the years have gone on, I’ve managed to retain an idea of the overall plots of these, but the finer details have certainly gotten more and more fuzzy. …
After about a year or two of drum lessons, my teacher wanted me to pick a song and write out the drum part. He gave me free reign to pick any song I wanted, and I was excited for the assignment. Up until then, I had mostly worked on the rudiments and various exercises from …
No conversation about the great drummers in history would be complete without mentioning the names Buddy Rich and Neil Peart. While Rush was a band I could always catch on the radio growing up, Buddy Rich, along with many other jazz greats for that matter, was much harder to come across on the dial. I …
When it comes to movies, the Coen Brothers are high on my list of great writers and directors. Raising Arizona was probably the first movie I saw of theirs as a kid, though I had no idea that they were involved with it at the time. The movie that really put them on the map …
Primus came out with a greatest hits album a number of years ago called They Can’t All Be Zingers. I love this title, not only for the irony of using it for a greatest hits release, but for the simple truth it states. Even for as much as I love a band like The Beatles, …
A few months before Spotify was getting ready to debut in the U.S., everyone at work got an opportunity to create a login and test it out. Some of the things that really impressed me in the beginning were how extensive their catalog was, the ease with which you could share songs with other users, …
I never listened to any Static-X until the latter years of college. My girlfriend at the time was into them, and they were set to play a show at a place called Clutch Cargo’s in Pontiac, MI, which she wanted to see. This was in 2003, a few months before the band released their third …
For many years, Kmart was one of the staple department stores in our town. My mom, aunt, and grandma would shop there all the time, and I would enjoy going because they had a Little Caesars Pizza and one of those sit down blood pressure machines, which I always loved to use. A good friend …
89X was one of the radio stations most of my friends and I listened to growing up. At that time, they were an alternative rock station broadcasting throughout Detroit from Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Every so often, they would put on what they called an “89X show,” which was a concert where tickets only costed $8.90 …
Rammstein was the first band I heard as a kid where all of the lyrics were in a foreign language. I had heard maybe a line or two in some songs previously, José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” and The Beatles’ “Michelle” are a couple that come to mind, but that was about it (kind funny that …