This video from 1961 makes me laugh with admiration. What band is this cool in 2006?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7LPJzq_P90

There seem to be baseball fans here. If you are taxpayers, how do you feel about paying part of the cost of sports stadiums? Seems like rich guys are eager to buy teams, but when it comes stadium building time, they won't do it without public money. Probably for the same reason dogs lick themselves ...

The drummer is the most important band member BY FAR.

A crummy drummer will make a band of genius musicians sound bad.

A strong drummer will make a band of hacks sound at least tolerable.

Become a good drummer and you will get to pick and choose the players/bands you work with.

I, too, love playing extra-clean. A favorite setup: Electric guitar > L.R. Baggs Para-Coustic DI > large PA. The Baggs unit has many routing and EQ options - highly recommended. Distorted guitar is an utter cliche in 2005, whatever the musical genre - it bores audiences, and it hides bad technique. ...

I'd like to use a no-moving-parts recorder to capture music and sounds outside my "studio" area. No overdubbing, effects, etc. necessary - just the ability to offload files to a PC. I realize the Edirol R-1 is the thing for this, but I can't afford it. Anybody ever use an under-$100 Olympus (or othe...

Mr. Rickard - I've just checked out your music at onezero - I am impressed with your enterprise and focus - you are a serious artist, and you set a good example to those of us whose muse is not a commercial one.

Anyone here have little or no use for vocals and lyrics?

Anyone here primarily a player, not a singer?

Anyone actually selling or performing non-vocal music?

Just curious - thanks for replies.

I thought that in appearance, he was a near-twin to Ringo Starr.

Anybody here perform, write, record under multiple identities for multiple styles? I'm ready to throw a little music out into the marketplace, but somehow it doesn't make sense to alternate the metallic distorto-sarcasm on the same CD with the funk-bop guitar trio stylings and the sensitive new-age ...

Local jazz players can be the most condescending mo-fos on earth. I used to jam with a jazz tenor player who got on my case regularly for owning more than two guitars - f__ him anyway. I used to play weddings with one of the top jazz drummers in my medium-sized town. Although the guy was the first-c...