please switch to the japanese oak sticks... they taste better
4 years ago, at this time, which right now is 1:23AM, I was sound asleep in a hotel in Asheville NC.
I woke up about 2:30 and proceeded to scare the hell out of myself. I knew for over 2 months that I was going to have a triple bypass and I could have cared less, I even watched a triple bypass on you tube until I woke up roughly 4 hours before it was going to happen and it hit me what they were going to do, i.e, stop my heart, collapse my lungs, take a vein from the inner wall of my chest and 1 from my upper leg, bypass the blockages, jump start my heart, and send me on my way.
That was the plan.
Then, laying in bed,my mind took off on everything that could go wrong. My heart wouldn't re-start, I wouldn't be able to breathe, the doctor (Doogie Howser) would lose the instructions and have to try to Google them, a power outage and the backup generators wouldn't start. You think of everything that could go wrong.
I thought,"the hell with this, I'm going to call a cab and go home, I don't care what it costs". I saw the 4 Horsemen, the Grim Reaper, and my ex-wife Sybil go walking past. I had visions of Bish taking my drums and Zack taking my drumsticks and chewing them down to toothpicks. Tom writing my obituary and getting me mixed up with someone else.
I get to the "Pearly Gates" and St. Peter says " What the heck (St Peter doesn't say Hell, he just sends you there) are you doing here? Go to the elevator and push down, take a sandwich because it's a long ride to where you are going".
Now it's 4 years later and I'm still here. I was over there for a while but I liked it here better.
YOU MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU DON'T KNOW.
VAE VICTIS
ONCE YOU HIT A CERTAIN AGE, YOU BECOME PERMANENTLY UNIMPRESSED BY A LOT OF CRAP.
I HIT THAT AGE 20 YEARS AGO.
IF DOGS CAN'T GO TO HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO WHERE THEY GO
WILL ROGERS
please switch to the japanese oak sticks... they taste better
YOU MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU DON'T KNOW.
VAE VICTIS
ONCE YOU HIT A CERTAIN AGE, YOU BECOME PERMANENTLY UNIMPRESSED BY A LOT OF CRAP.
I HIT THAT AGE 20 YEARS AGO.
IF DOGS CAN'T GO TO HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO WHERE THEY GO
WILL ROGERS
"Here" is a better place with you in it, Rick. So is Drum Chat.
YOU MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU DON'T KNOW.
VAE VICTIS
ONCE YOU HIT A CERTAIN AGE, YOU BECOME PERMANENTLY UNIMPRESSED BY A LOT OF CRAP.
I HIT THAT AGE 20 YEARS AGO.
IF DOGS CAN'T GO TO HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO WHERE THEY GO
WILL ROGERS
Speaking for myself, but I'm pretty sure we were all concerned and hoping for the best outcome before your surgery happened.
Glad you're still around and as entertaining as ever.
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Last edited by rickthedrummer; 06-14-2018 at 02:18 AM.
YOU MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU DON'T KNOW.
VAE VICTIS
ONCE YOU HIT A CERTAIN AGE, YOU BECOME PERMANENTLY UNIMPRESSED BY A LOT OF CRAP.
I HIT THAT AGE 20 YEARS AGO.
IF DOGS CAN'T GO TO HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO WHERE THEY GO
WILL ROGERS
I know post is old but Glad your still here.I myself know what its like . I got bit by tick and ended up with mild stroke and heart attack. Just from that dam little tick. I'm doing ok now So as I said glad your here and not there.
So whats so wrong with laughing. Some need to learn to laugh
YOU MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU DON'T KNOW.
VAE VICTIS
ONCE YOU HIT A CERTAIN AGE, YOU BECOME PERMANENTLY UNIMPRESSED BY A LOT OF CRAP.
I HIT THAT AGE 20 YEARS AGO.
IF DOGS CAN'T GO TO HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO WHERE THEY GO
WILL ROGERS
-Brian
"Too many crappy used drum stuff to list"
Play the SONG......not the DRUMS!!!
"I think that feeling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts." ~ John Bonham
Glad you are still here Rick.
Conrad
YOU MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE DEVIL YOU DON'T KNOW.
VAE VICTIS
ONCE YOU HIT A CERTAIN AGE, YOU BECOME PERMANENTLY UNIMPRESSED BY A LOT OF CRAP.
I HIT THAT AGE 20 YEARS AGO.
IF DOGS CAN'T GO TO HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO WHERE THEY GO
WILL ROGERS
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