Drumming

[shermarama]

I haven't been playing regularly in a band since something like 2008. Until this afternoon, I hadn't even sat down behind a drumkit since March 2010. There didn't seem to be much point when there was always something else I was supposed to be doing, when it cost money I didn't have, when it would be stupid to join a band when the plan was to leave

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[khalinche]

This whole post makes me smile. I'm glad you're playing the drums again.

[shermarama]

So am I! Hopefully with some other people sometime soon, too.

[motodraconis]

What a great find, and cheap! Good luck sorting out the band plan. In my experience, it was getting hold of a drummer that was always the hardest part, closely followed by a bass player, so the hardest people to find are already sussed!

I'm half insanely jealous, half relieved not to have the opportunity to live in Amsterdam. It's a beautiful city, and on my list of places I'd love to live and work in (I've hung out a little with workchums there and got to know the place.)
Except... the coffee-shop thing would cause me no end of problems/ I'm happy(ish) to be a non-smoker for health reasons, but with proper weed on tap, the temptation would be an agony for me.

Mind you, I could be a singer for you! I used to sing in a band and wasn't too bad at it.

Noooooo!

[shermarama]

Drummers and bassists can usually find each other and then we think we have trouble finding front ends; there seems to be some fundamental mismatch in where we go and what we're looking for.

I thought the coffee shops would be more of a temptation than they have been, for me. It's nice that it isn't a hassle, I suppose is the thing, that if you decide you want to get some weed you can go and have a civilised conversation with someone behind a counter who can make recommendations and everything. I haven't much bothered, in practice, but then I was never a regular smoker and that doesn't change just because of changing availability.

[braisedbywolves]

! I am obviously far from the music scene, but I'm amazed to find any kind of room at all that you could rent for anything at €5 an hour!

Also I don't know that I've ever seen you drum? I'll try and fix that, if you get into a band agin.

[shermarama]

The price structure is quite Dutch in that it's €5 per person per hour, so actually if I went there for three hours it would notionally cost me €15 whether I was with a band or not, but I don't know whether they'd tend to make up a price most times anyway.

I'm not sure you have either. The Bad Fucks wasn't really your scene, I don't think...

[braisedbywolves]

I have many scenes! But my memory was that I thought "Yes I should go see them at some point" then they wound up (or possibly down) not that long after I moved in.

[blue_mai]

sweet :)

[shermarama]

It was, rather.

[shermarama]

It felt like it highlighted all the things I've always been a bit rubbish at, though, things like not being able to keep my left foot going independently. I should work out some exercises and go and do them.

I love the way musicians in Europe care so much more about their environment and community.
Is that what you've found here generally? In that case, I'm even more looking forward to getting back to playing.