2026 Chatty!!!!!

[Rodge]

Awesome guys, thanks to both of you !!!

[bjdrums]

Really appreciate what you do Steve and team to continue to provide such a great resource. Steve your YT dashboard page is also a wonderful resource and full of great stuff. While I know it's your passion, it still takes a lot of work to provide these things and you don't get thanked enough.

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks BJ.
The forum would still be down for a while if I didn't use AI to tell me how to fix it. It was pretty cool honestly.

[Kurtis]

Richie Gajete Garcia had an open counseling for an hour once a week at Musicians Institute. a day in 1993 or 1994 i went to his open counseling and no one else was in the room so i had a one on one. I learned really fast how to play a conga drum! I had some concept but no idea how to strike and play a conga drum with my hands. He took my hand by the wrist and said go limp or relax. A few minutes later I had the pop sound going. Great teacher! I miss those days. Love Latin music. Would love to be in a Latin band were one could go from drum set to timbales, congas and down the line of hitting things during a gig.