Hugging may not be your first instinct when meeting a drummer, since there is always the chance they could start tapping on your back in a way that makes the embrace incredibly awkward (or at least insincere), and yet…drummers need hugs too.
According to the Urban Dictionary and the Drummer Death Theory, you never know when a rock band drummer is gonna kick the bucket. Plus, let’s face it—without a good drummer most bands would just be all over the place, so they deserve some kudos.
Here are the top 5 drummers of all time according to Rolling Stone’s Top 100:
5. Hal Blaine – The Wrecking Crew, The Beach Boys, Sinatra (died of natural causes at age 90) The number 1 songs Hal played on.
4. Neil Peart – Rush (died of brain cancer). Tom Sawyer drums.
3. Ginger Baker – Cream (died of presumably natural causes at age 80, although while alive, he heard on the radio that he had died from a heroin overdose). Toad drums.
2. Keith Moon – The Who (overdosed on the drug that was supposed to wean him off booze at age 32). Moon at his last concert.
1. John Bonham – Led Zeppelin (died from a vodka overdose at age 32). Moby Dick drum solo.
Music Du Jour: 50 Songs every drummer should know.
Films Du Jour:
Whiplash
Drumline
The Rocker
Step Brothers
Miscellaneous:
Learn how to play the drums, and get your own hugs on October 10.
Learn how to Playstation drums.
Cupcakes for drummers.
Cocktail Du Jour – Ginger Baker Fizz
This recipe comes from Rhiannon Enlil at Sazerac Company.
- 2 oz gin (Plymouth)
- 0.5 oz crème de cacao
- 0.5 oz ginger liqueur
- 1.5 oz chilled heavy cream
- 0.75 oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 1 egg white
- 1.5 oz ginger beer
Add lemon juice and egg white to a cocktail shaker and shake well. Add ice, gin, crème de cacao, ginger liqueur, and heavy cream and shake again. Pour the ginger beer into a chilled Collins glass. Strain the shaker over the ginger beer slowly to build the drink. Garnish with an orange twist.
Mocktail Du Jour – Ginger Baker Mocktail
- 2 oz Monday Zero non-Alcohol Gin
- 0.5 oz Hershey’s chocolate syrup
- 1.5 oz chilled heavy cream
- 0.75 oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 1 egg white
- 2 oz ginger beer
Add lemon juice and egg white to a cocktail shaker and shake well. Add ice, Monday Zero Non-Alcohol Gin, chocolate syrup, and heavy cream and shake again. Pour the ginger beer into a chilled Collins glass. Strain the shaker over the ginger beer slowly to build the drink. Garnish with an orange twist.
Beer Du Jour
Odell Drumroll Hazy Pale Ale, Toms River Beat of a Different Drum IPA, Mast Landing Stamos on Drums
Wine Du Jour
Drum Roll White, Drum Roll Red
Use freshly squeezed citrus in your cocktails and mocktails when called for – It makes such a difference! Here’s a reliable and inexpensive juicer.
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Photo attributions: “Keith Moon, the Who, Winterland, 2” by wbaiv is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
