Drummers

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When we started posting "bonus" epiosodes of the Ongoing History, lots of people began requesting topics...wondering if we had ever covered them. With 800+ shows in the vault, there is a good chance that we have. One request came to us from a drummer who asked "I'm sure you've done shows about singers and guitarists...but what about drummers? I play the drums and often am the butt of jokes because...well I play the drums". Well...good thing you asked becasue in May of 2004 we paid homage to the Drummer. And here it is...in Podcast form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. Hey, want to hear a joke? Sure. What do you call a drummer with half a brain? I don't know what. Gifted. Get it? Half a brain? So that makes him smarter even though he's got just half a brain. Yeah, I get it. Wait, wait, here's another. How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb?
0:24.4	Tell me. So that makes him smarter even though he's got just half a brain. Yeah, I get it.
0:21.0	Wait, wait, here's another.
0:22.1	How many drummers does it take to change a light bulb? Tell me. 20. One to hold the bulb and 19 to drink until the room spins. Get it? I got another. What's the difference between a drummer and a vacuum cleaner? You have to plug one in before it sucks. Hey, where are you going? I'm going to band practice.
0:36.8	Really?
0:37.3	What are you going to do with those big toothpicks you've got?
0:39.1	Yeah, uh-oh.
0:40.0	Come here, funny boy!
0:41.2	Ha! for it sucks. Hey, where are you going? Going to band practice. Really? What are you going to do with those big toothbeaks you've got?
0:39.5	Uh-oh. Come here, funny boy.
0:41.1	Hey, ow! Not sideways!
0:44.1	This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.
0:51.2	Welcome to the show. I'm Alan Cross, and I have a confession. I play the drums. Seriously, I still have a kid in the basement that I bought with the money I made teaching lessons at a shop on Main Street in Winnipeg called Drums Unlimited. And okay, I worked in a drum shop. I will admit that some of our kind aren't so bright.
1:12.3	I mean, how often do you ever hear a musician's joke involving, I don't know, bass players?
1:16.4	But overall, you know, I think drummers, we get a bad rap, and I'm out to prove this.
1:22.8	The title of this show is drummers who made a difference.
1:27.4	Throughout the history of rock
1:28.6	and roll all the glory has gone to the singers and the guitar players but
1:31.7	believe it or not drummers have made some very significant contributions to
1:36.4	music and without these people what we listen to today might not have been
1:40.1	possible now let me set this straight this doesn't mean that these are the best
1:44.2	drummers or the most talented drummers we've seen. Many of them might not know a
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