Top Twenty Signs You've Been A Drummer for Too Long
This was supposed to be a Top Ten list, but the ideas just kept on coming so I settled at twenty. There might be more in the future.
- You can do a complete drum solo by clicking your teeth
- You have enough broken sticks collection to heat up an average home in the winter
- When someone mentions "160 bpm" a little metronome starts ticking inside your head... at 160 bpm
- You know the exact chemical composition of the alloys used to make different types of cymbals
- The words "The Black Page" bring a shiver to your body
- Animal is your favorite Muppet
- You buy a live CD just for the drum solo
- You can recite all the components in Mike Portnoy's drumset by heart, the clamps and wingnuts included
- You think paying $1500 for a Lars Ulrich bell brass snare is no big deal. "Hey who can be more metal than Lars?"
- You know what Der Trommler and O Baterista mean
- The owner of your local drum shop was able to send his kid to college thanks to your frequent contributions
- You're getting tired explaining to people about the calluses on your hands
- You don't find drummer jokes funny anymore
- You have more drum jpegs than pr0n on your computer (whoa you must be really hardcore)
- Airdrumming is your preferred method of warming up before going jogging
- Your main reason to buy an MPV instead of a Mustang (despite how uncool the MPV looks) is that you can at least fit your entire drumset in the MPV
- You've set up your drumset in the bathroom and used the toilet as the "throne"
- You laugh hysterically when a newbie drummer say, "My new two ply bassdrum head is so durable, there's no way I could break that thing."
- You have a Drummers Do It With Rhythm t shirt and proudly wear it everyday
- You refer to your drumset as your "baby," "girlfriend," or worse, "soulmate."
1 Comments:
hah! funny!
By Anonymous, at 8:25 AM, July 30, 2006
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