Hi all. Sorry for the lack of new posts these last couple of weeks but I promise I’ll have something up soon. Until then, enjoy this awesome live recording of  Ella Fitzgerald and the classy-as-always Duke performing this classic groove: What I love about this recording is the straight rawness in performance. People are yelling up and down throughout the recording, having just a ball. Ella’s scatting all through the arrangement (…don’t think too hard about that, you dirty pervert), and she’s seemingly cracking up from what I assume to be Duke’s crazy ass outbursts. And everyone is just freaking into … Continue reading Wait for it…

So, I’m really new to this whole blogging thing and wasn’t planning on sharing drum news or anything random, but I just HAD to do this. The always amazing Mike Portnoy, most notably the original drummer and co-founder of Dream Theater (among many other projects), makes an appearance on Loudwire…on the cutest drum set you’ll ever see: Gotta say, the fact that he’s able to play Slayer’s “Raining Blood” (right before knocking the whole set over from his pedal force) goes to show you that the kit doesn’t make the drummer…though, that kit could use some work. Continue reading Great googly moogly, Mike Portnoy on a Hello Kitty drum set?!