In my twenties I enjoyed many holidays in Cornwall and enjoyed staying in static caravans and cottages and loved the old Perranporth Inn at night time with Bernie playing the drums , one night I got to play the drums and it was great fun
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I took up the drums. Didn't get anywhere particularly but it was fun trying! I sold my kit decades ago and I'd need practice to try again but I still know the "rudiments". That were when pop and rock music had proper and sometimes quite complicated rhythms, long before first the Disco then Drum-&-Bass stuff took any complexity out.
@ArishMell I learned to read and play rudiments as a child , Played in semi pro in bands from 16 , for 10 years or so . Still have a couple of kids , but just play for the pure joy it . I bought a caravan to house one , on a mates farm .
@devonman Unfortunately my house would not suit a drum-kit - an Edwardian end of terrace whose party wall is thin enough for me to hear my neighbour practicing her ukulele!
@ArishMell Reminds me of one of Wodehouse's stories about Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. Bertie took up the ukulele and the neighbours complained so he decamped to a cottage on the Devon estate of a titled friend. Jeeves disapproved of the noise so much that he gave notice.
