I put these on Facebook, but you know how that is, they quickly go down the news feed/memory hole. I’m reposting them here for posterity, at least posterity as we’ve come to know it on the interwebs.
My friend Randy Max found these in a box in his mom’s basement and scanned them for me.
Staining my timpani sticks ca. 1985
Ted and Randy – Evansville Philharmonic ca. 1985
Ted – Evansville Philharmonic ca. 1985
Ted and Randy Max ca. 1985
Juilliard Percussion Department ca. 1984 with Buster Bailey and Roland Kohloff.
Last week I hosted a birthday shindig at Duff’s Restaurant. My brother Dan and I (aka The WirePilots) played and trotted out some new gear, notably my new Korg WaveDrum, which is a ‘virtual acoustic instrument.’ In other words, it’s electronic but there’s no MIDI or computer interface. It’s played in real time like any other acoustic instrument and it responds to gestures like slapping or hitting the rim.
Here’s a video of a new tune that Dan wrote and I like how it turned out.
A couple of posts ago I talked about how I was reunited with my former marimba. Now I’ve made contact (although virtual) with my boyhood drum set. It’s a vintage Rogers kit with a sort of pearl-oyster finish that I bought when I was 15 or so.
Here’s the story. A couple of days ago we got an email from a friend who moved with his family to the west coast a few years back. I had sold him the Rogers kit, but to tell you the truth I kind of forgot about it.
In the email he told us his son (our kids were preschool buddies) had started playing the drums, so when I got some video links of the kit in action I was stoked. It’s amazing that these instruments are still in circulation inspiring a whole new generation of kids to play!
