My experience is a bit odd. The first band I ever played in had a killer drummer who was an insanely better musician than me. He led the quads section in marching band as a freshman in HS. Hero posters in his room were Louie Bellson, Buddy Rich, and Billy Cobham. He went to Central Michigan University and led the whole drum section. He also met Brian Vanderark there and joined The Verve Pipe as the keyboard player. Got to play rock star for a couple years on tour with their one hit, and ended up a school teacher at a charter school in Chicago where he ran the only percussion only band program in the country.

I was really really lucky to get to play with Doug. I was a low talent keyboardist that knew chord theory and could read chord charts and play along with him and Garo, our bass player, but I was totally out of my league. Garo became a urologist and was killed at his practice by a crazed former patient with a shotgun about 10 years ago. The Charter school were Doug taught got defunded.

He doesn’t even play much anymore

Last edited by rockstar_not; 12/31/21 06:36 PM.
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