Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burr. It's time for the Thursday afternoon just before Friday, Monday morning podcast. And I'm just checking in on you. Oh, all right. So it's videotaped here. Whatever they say nowadays, the digital, what, it's being filmed. It's not film. Whatever the fuck it is. Just to let you know whenever you see this,

it means I have a special guest and this is no different. This man is one of my favorite

people out here in L.A., one of my great friends and my drum instructor, the one and only

Mr. Dave Eilich. Thanks for having me, buddy. What's going all? Thanks for showing up. Yeah. You know, sometimes you have a guest and maybe they don't show up. I'm here. You have, you already have done a couple of these instructional videos. Yep. The first one was getting out of your own way. The second one was to get out of your own way, part two. Staying out of your own way. Staying out of your own way. Which was last. Which was last. John Travolta. No. Sorry. I love that you're old enough to get that joke. And now your new one, which I downloaded this morning. And you gave me, he gave me a free download and I couldn't figure it out. so I said, fuck it. I'm going to pay for it. So I can, because I'm going to get it anyway. Yeah, I appreciate that. And this one's your mind's ear. You got it. Yeah. And this one is all about like the technique of playing drums totally broken down with his expertise and all that.

And what I've always told people is they'll ask me like, you know, what happens is,

you know, along the times when I've been sitting in with these, these bands, as my playing has

improved to the point that people are asking me what I'm doing, and I always tell them, you know,

about you. And then they always get like nervous, like especially like self-taught guys. There is, I don't know if there is that now because so many people just take instruction from the internet. But there was a thing when I was coming up where I'm like self-taught, man, I play from here. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah I don't want to learn technique and come from here yeah and I always tell them what's

great about what you do is you don't change what the person plays you just make what the

person plays easier yes and more efficient so just to give you guys an idea with my

dad drumming that I'm doing in my garage. You're gigging a ton, though. You just did the Pretenders thing, and you're constantly sitting in with people, which is red. You are. You are. I've been sitting in. That Pretender's thing was like a legit gig, game. I played tambourine with the bangles, you know?

I've done some...

No, I never did.

I would, though. Putting that out there. See, it's going to happen now. Oh, is it Gina Shock? She's the fucking shit, man. Elypsis sealed is one of the great fucking drum grooves of the 80s. Yep. Anyway, so you've been teaching me like I was, like, there's a few songs out there that

I am obsessed with the, uh, the 16th notes and it's a single.

Yeah, one-handed thing.

And so you were giving me like information on, on that.

And just that alone, how much I've been able to increase the b pms without getting any

tightness in here whatsoever is amazing and i always felt like wow all of these friends that i have

you know i wish that they could come out and take a lesson with you which i know you do but like

you can now like all this like i was literally so much of this shit that I was watching that I got to watch this morning. I was like flashing back to being with you going, this is like literally what you, you know, holding the stick and it lines up like that and there's like a straight line like this and the gap here and you're using this muscle. Well, the reason why I made it is because I would go through it with people and they'd be like, okay, this is great, I got it. And then they'd walk out and be like, what just happened? And then they'd get home and want to practice it. And then they'd go on YouTube or Instagram and who knows what they're watching on there. Yes. And then they'd come back in. we'd have to do it all over again. Well, I don't know if you know about the internet. There's no rules of libel or slander. And anybody can essentially do a TED talk. That's the problem, right? So that was why I made it. So people can go home and pull up a video of me doing it. And it's the same thing. And they can work on it and not get convoluted by garbage on the

internet yeah and what i i always i think i told this story but i'll tell it again was the first time i

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