They blow down the slopes of mountains, plateaus, and hills at this time of year and by happenstance, I was in the middle of this. This seasonal weather pattern containing the katabatic winds occurs mostly at night, when the highlands radiate heat and are cooled. I was lucky to be alerted that the Santa Ana winds were coming again, but nobody had to notify me about the danger of these hot, dry winds, contributing to wildfires. I remained aloof to all the political news, but when it came to weather, I always paid attention, so I could evaluate if I needed to evacuate.
I was out in the woods with the new drummer and we were eating spicy tapioca pearls which my grandmother made for our breakfast. The drummer just moved to California and his greed to perform in front of an audience made him great, but his incessant drumming was turning me into a basket case.
Written for Sheryl’s Daily Word Prompt – Notify, for Roger Shipp’s Daily Addictions prompt – Basket, for the Daily Spur prompt – Audience, for FOWC with Fandango – Aloof, for Melodye Shore September show-and-tell – Seasonal, for September Monthly Writing Prompts – Katabatic winds, for Ragtag Community – Happenstance, for Sara’s Closet Full Of Notebooks Prompt – Lucky, for Paula’s Three Things Challenge prompt words – Drummer Tapioca Greed, for GC and Sue W Weekly Prompt – Evaluate and for Word of the Day Challenge Prompt – Spicy.
Always wanted a go at playing the drums. Nearest I got was the biscuit tin and some knitting needles.
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When I worked as a substitute teacher, I had band class several times. This drummer showed me how to hold the sticks and I found it very uncomfortable, so I gave up all of my ambitions of ever playing the drums.
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I had a similar problem with my fingers on the guitar strings. Sadly you can’t lug a piano around like you can a guitar!
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Frank Zappa started out as a drummer, but he switched to guitar and became #22 on Rolling Stone‘s list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
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Wow!
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I feel your pain!!
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Thanks Violet. Is there a drummer in your family?
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Both my husbands. I love musicians but don’t know how I always fell for the drummers…. 😉
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Every good drummer that I’ve played with was always out in left field…the bad ones were normal guys. It takes a special…uh a different person to be a good drummer…at least in my experiences.
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I am sure that you know much more about this, than I do, as I only knew one drummer. I thought he was very good and he was also a super nice guy.
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I wish I would have known him back in the day. I wasn’t trying to be funny…maybe we just hooked up with the wrong ones.
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Amazing drummer. Never saw two people playing the drums like that before. We’ve got a good drummer in this area named Tim Froncek. https://www.gvsu.edu/mtd/module-directory-view.htm?siteModuleId=C0424FBE-FE58-2EA5-6C3669FB134B1F69&entryId=CA7A8758-BFBC-2EB5-63EDB20631FC5FEB that I’ve seen a few times. He’s awesome! One of the madmen type 😉
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