just thinking about my youth and all the bands i saw in them...

here's a list of mine (i'm sure i missed a few) most were from early 80s to mid 90s...no particular order
cheap trick, alice cooper, megadeth, slayer, metallica, iron maiden, judas priest, pink floyd, ac/dc, anthrax, kiss, rolling stones, aerosmith, pantera, nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, guns n roses, metal church, white zombie, skid row, faster pussycat, ozzy, black sabbath, rhcp, bryan adams, sass jordan, steve miller, scorpions, van halen, alice in chains, the cult,

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NativePortlander1970 ·

My top bands were ABBA, BeeGees, Beatles, Beach Boys, Human League, Thompson Twins, Cyndi, Pat Benetar, Blondie, Gogos, Bangles, Debbie Gibson, Ramones, Meatloaf, Twisted Sister, Opus, Cars, Styx, Supertramp, John Denver, New Christy Minstrals, Byrds, Cream, Moody Blues, and of course Paul Revere, as their drummer's niece was my babysitter and I banged on his drums, the same ones in this video.
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beermeplease · M

@NativePortlander1970 thats a cool story....i see a little bit of 'ports history in them drum heads 🤗

NativePortlander1970 ·

@beermeplease To this day I'm pissed to no end at my 5th grade band teacher, he asked how many of us wanted to play drums, three of us shot our hands up, but he said he only had two spots, so we had a drum off. He chose Ravel's Bolero, which has a simple repeating snare that I caught onto near immediately and kept up, which impressed my teacher, he asked how I knew how to catch a beat so fast, so I told him Smitty Smith showed me, when he didn't believe me my mother confirmed it. When it came to the other two they were both all over the place and unbalanced out of rhythm. But guess who got the two spots? Yep, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, why? Because they had piano lessons the year before and I had not, just so they could be drummers in the 5th grade band. This was in my first year in an iowa school, in 4th grade I was in an Oregon school, where piano lessons weren't required to take drums in 5th grade band.