Waking up at 4:45 in the morning
Skipping breakfast
Walking outside into 90 degree humidity before sunrise
Playing drums for two hours at prestissimo tempos
Taking a break
Playing two more hours
Voluntarily keeping that schedule for 5 years

So I bought a new snare a few days ago. A Pork Pie 7×13 orange, acrylic snare drum. This was quite a leap from what I’ve been playing for the last 10 years. 10 years ago I bought a Remo 13×3.5 Mastersound piccolo snare with the profits from the “All American Heros” t-shirt sales, and […]

When my band in Colorado used to play local shows I would always joke around while we were loading in that I should have played the flute. Then I wouldn’t have to carry a heavy bass drum, toms, hardware, cymbals and then unpack it all (of course once it was all onto the stage I […]

Merchant Band is in the studio this weekend working on our next project. I love being in the studio with these guys. It’s always a blast coming in with our initial plan for the song and then recording it a few times, listening to it, recording it again, working out a
new part, talking […]

Yesterday I had the morning off from playing drums with Merchant Band for the FCF church service because another drummer (we’ll call him Frank) is subbing for me this weekend while my team plays in Dallas since Anna and I will be celebrating our One Year Anniversary.
After sleeping in and getting ready for my day […]