http://www.hollywooddrum.com L.A.'s Drum Community Has A Home Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:23:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dresel v. Dresel A pattern has emerged. Our last two video interviews have either preceded or followed companion Hittin' reviews here in the News blog. We hold consistent with our latest interview featuring Bernie and Jonathan Dresel. Not long ago here, I indulged some impressions of a performance ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/hollywood-drum-before-dark-dresel-brothers Down In Dixieland My medium-rare flesh slow-roasted on a shadeless stretch of sand beneath an intense South Texas sun. I was already an unnatural shade of saturated pink well on the way to an alarming red that would find me enduring the remainder of my first college spring break in ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/hayward-bound Foggy Mourning "R.I.P. Chad Sexton's Drum City. Anyone know the story? Post info and eulogies here." So read the precipitous January ninth post on the Hollywood Drum Facebook page. Add it to "Dewey Defeats Truman." The post was in reaction to the abruptly deserted North Hollywood storefront on ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/bringing-sextons-back Movin' On Upstairs I like my vibey neighborhood dive bars. No fuss. No pretense. No twelve-piece bands. A couple blocks from my house, Upstairs at Vitello's is not among them. Downstairs, maybe. The upper room is fast becoming one of L.A.'s finest jazz clubs with ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/hittin-bernie-dresel-vitellos Play And Forget One of my favorite home-spun maxims comes from the nine year-old son of a good friend. He was telling us about his day at summer camp. As the kids changed into their swimsuits, a heavyset man was also changing in the same locker room. ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/drummers-reality-camp Feel Like We Do No, HollywoodDrum.com has not grown more gray and mellow, or less gaunt and pouty in that cool rockstar way; neither have we assumed a proper banker's haircut over a golden blown-out mane, or gut-covering button-down in place of one seriously badass open kimono shirt. We are ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/hollywood-drum-comes-alive-ii A Curious Tail When at one point during my interview with drummer Nate Wood, he told me he was playing guitar with Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders, I wasn't shocked. I had just witnessed him simultaneously play drums with his right hand and bass with his left the night ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/a-band-of-drummers "You're Invited: Hollywood Drum Shop GRAND OPENING April 10-11." I received the over-sized postcard promotional mailer from Guitar Center and---against protocol---was compelled to give it a second look. Grand Opening? Capital letters?! Hasn't this place been around since 1985? Indeed it has. It seemed ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/drums-along-sunset Jake Hanna died February 12, 2010. In tribute to the accomplished drummer, we turn to Stan Keyawa of the Professional Drum Shop for some words about his old friend: Jake Hanna remembered by Stan Keyawa… As a young man working at Pro Drum in the early 70’s, I remember ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/jake-hanna-1931-2010 Be Gentle I was surprised to learn that this was Nate Wood's first interview. It's not like he's an unknown. Buzz about his playing ripples in the wake of his electrifying live performances with Kneebody, and more recently, Tigran Hamasyan; and if you're not hip to him you're probably ... http://www.hollywooddrum.com/debuting-nate-wood