What Is The Best?
Jan10

What Is The Best?

Maintaining a website like this has its ups and downs. Just like life. Lately I’ve been feeling guilty for not writing some interviews I’ve done over the past few months. Basically I’ve been busy drumming and touring and generally just living life. Some things have happened recently that I’m going to share with you for the purpose of making myself known to you, the person reading this. It has to do with “being great” or being “the best.” Basically, I never really thought this site would become the journey it has become, and most of the time I just do my things and stuff happens in life and I meet some people and I get inspired and I do an interview and learn things and do some gigs and work on things in my drumming and improve here and there and just basically “live my life.” There are some things that happen that I sometimes have a hard time understanding the significance of and they can sometimes stick in my head and sort of “jam up the works.” This is a story about that. As you may know, I play in a band called Led Zeppelin 2. And that means I get to get into the “character” of John Henry Bonham, arguably the greatest rock drummer of all time. It’s a beautiful challenge to do this. Here’s how I see it. I get to take on the role of another person who I only know through the products he created in his life. His product is music. And he was part of a group of people who created something together that is beyond this world, which all great music IS. Music is not a part of this world, it is something above it all. Call it manic, call it spiritual, call it life force, but if it’s great it touches something timeless inside you. So I get to adopt an identity that happened to bend space and time and transcend life and create something bigger. And doing this action for me allows me a vehicle to work certain things out for myself. But my journey through life sometimes has things that I don’t always have perspective on at the time. And this year of 2013 had some that I’m just getting perspective on. I’ve owed you this story for a year. Each year for about the past five years now, my band Led Zeppelin 2 (a band name as cocky as The Best Drummer In The World) has steadily grown bigger and bigger. In our hometown of Chicago, we sold out three nights at House of Blues. Almost 1,400 people a night times three nights was something I’m super proud of. Definitely a great year. As I write this, I’m lying in bed...

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