Can someone explain this "personality-related connection" to me? I just don't get it. If someone insults something I like, why on earth would the upshot of that be for me to take that personally? For example, there's always the guy who disagrees with conventional wisdom … say they don't l...

If I had to guess, it would be one of two things: 1) Who knows what's going on in people's lives? Maybe that had a really shitty day and then they heard someone insult their hero so they got cross 2) Your idol is a deeply personal thing - we're talking hero here, not just 'someone good who we like'....

Just in case anyone was tempted to skip the Jeff Babko episode (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id-hit-that/id507733829?mt=2#) because he's not a drummer, don't, it's one of the best so far. Very lovely, very entertaining guy. Loves drummers as much as we do.

Ooh, two more, from the same guy.

I honestly never tire of watching the footage from these years. Vinnie was in top form back in those days and the band was so tight with one another. Vinnie's energy pushing and pulling is simply masterful. I'm not sure what process goes into changing up song arrangements or adding players to the b...

Cool. I take it there won't be any kind of statement about this in public - are you able to give us any insight into how he arrived at this? Just enjoyed this period of not having a company and decided he'd make it permanent?

I saw him on this tour 3 months into it, and the month after the Seoul vid (so 8ish months into it). He looked thoroughly pissed off each time. BUT, they remain the single most impressive and aggressive drum performances I've ever seen, nothing has matched them in the 18 years since. Hounds of Winte...

Vinnie's come full circle - a new Vic Firth signature stick based on the Vic Firth 5Bs his Zildjian signature sticks were based on...
http://instagram.com/p/jhpZF-G6gF/#

Some killer stuff here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma04Nady1nk You get the sense this is a guy pushing new ideas, not resting on laurels. For me he's pushing new ideas into a very much old ideas musical format... The playing and technique is insane but the musical platform via which it is expre...

Jackpot!

Thanks for posting.