I stopped by a really excellent drum shop in Cincinnati called Badges. Highly recommend you check them out. He had so many rides from everyone. I also tried out some Meinl sticks. I was very impressed with the quality and feel. The 5A is a bit lighter than the Vaters I usually use, but it's not a ba...

Todd has a lot of great content. I think he's not doing anything with them any longer but there's tons of stuff.

He is smooth. Has his own thing going on, plays just like he did in 1981 with Zappa.

I joined Drumeo for a month to check out the Todd Sucherman stuff.

The Vinnie spotlights he did turned me on to so much more VC playing than what I was familiar with. Stuff I never heard that is even more intense and mindblowing. It's been a while since I had that feeling of WTF baffling wonderment.

Cool, that's great to hear, hope it's soon. I'm doing this Zappa tribute and Keep it Greasy is going to be in the setlist coming up.

Not that I can play anything Vinnie plays, getting the meter and tempo mostly right is all I'm after.

Following up on this, will it be released?

I might be joining a Zappa tribute, jamming with them tomorrow. Joe's playing is a good guidepost. I'm nowhere near his skills, going to see how it goes.

I'm not a fan of technical prog that has changes every two bars, but this is some pretty sick playing.

Pretty sure bringing Portnoy back was a business decision, they need to sell tix.

I haven't laughed at the insanity and audacity of a drummer in a long while.

That got me cackling. HOLY HELL..

How does he do that.

I've been doing yoga 5x a week for the last year. It's amazing how much it's helped my mobility. It's not crazy ashtanga speed flow yoga. Normal classes.