Carcutt's Cave » Drumming

Drums on a Keyboard

John — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:09:10 +0000

This guy is intense.

Playing a fairly complicated song on the keyboards. Roy Wooten’s of Bella Fleck and the Flecktones plays the Drumitar an instrument of his own creation. Until now that was the only real example I had of someone using a keyboards as drums. I wish I knew the guys name .. he rocks.

Great Drum Solo at 16 Years Old

John — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:44:29 +0000

I have decided to start a series of posts dedicated to great drumming I find on the net. My first post in this series is of a kid who sounds like I wanted to sound when I was 16 and thought I was the shit behind a drum kit.

His name is Dylan Elise and he is playing at the Tauranga National Jazz Festival in New Zealand. I can only wish I had those chops at 16. He’s 19 now and I am sure we have not heard the last of this kid.

Enjoy and watch for the stick work around minute 9:00.

Four Lane Highway

John — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:53:18 +0000

There have been some interesting posts and discussions over at Steve Gobles site Swords Against Boredom about the band we were in when we were much younger; Four Lane Highway. Steve has been posting videos of the songs we used to play and some fun discussions have started.

Steve was our bass player, Deven has joined in the discussion, he was the led vocalist and I was our drummer. Doug and Larry have not joined in (both guitar players) but I am betting they will soon. This 4LaneHwy is not us … we never played anywhere near Wisconsin.

We took our name from the Pure Prairie League album “Two Lane Highway“. Doug (the artist of the group) even created a logo for us based on the album title logo. Notice on the Wikipedia page, the origin of PPL is “Wavery Ohio” .. this is where we all grew up and went to High School, hence the tribute.