When in the course of human events you have to ask not what your country can do for you, but to the republic for sandwich it stands, one nation under bombs bursting in air, the flag was still there, damn the torpedoes, I have not yet begun to fight, not ours…

...a little update to the holiday classic…

Merry Christmas

...don’t make the mistake of blaming your equipment for your own shortcomings. A good player will be noticeable even with the world’s crappiest sticks and a bad drum. I like the golfer Lee Trevino’s phrase, I quote: “The skill isn’t in the arrow, it’s in the Indian!”

...the percussion section does not set up the rhythm or “lay down a groove” for the other musicians to follow. The drum corps, as this section is called, is in place to contribute the only dynamics!

It was a day like any other in the edrumline.com lab. Boom-Boom, Jimmy, Mark, myself, the picture of Charlton Heston and our very own intern sat around imagining how nice it would be if someone would walk to the refrigerator, and return with delicious treats.

Boom-Boom, in one of his more ambitious moments screamed aloud, “I have an idea for our next feature!”

Everyone glanced up to see the fat guy grab his

Kevlar® is a man-made fiber developed in 1965 by two research scientists, Stephanie Kwolek and Herbert Blades. The two scientists worked for the DuPont company. Their product offered a number of benefits that led to its commercial introduction in the early 1970’s. Because of the protection it provides, Kevlar® fibers quickly became the technology of choice for bullet-resistant vests! This does not mean that hiding behind your drum in a shoot out is a good idea.

...blimps assumed a deeply religious significance for us, even if I can’t remember why. The rest of the corps was dismayed, to say the least, when, at the first site of one of those majestic super-balloons, the entire drumline would fall to its knees in supplication…