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Latency in music causes schizophrenia. Latency in recording music means that there is a slight lag time between the different instruments on the recording. It is a result of overdubbing different instruments using a digital computer recording system. The delay … Continue reading →

“To defeat your opponent, all you have to do is break their rhythm”……Bruce Lee.

Drumming Dispels Fear Generally speaking, people do not want to go to war if they have to participate in it. They would rather drink wine with their girlfriends or something just as peaceful. To get young boys (and now young … Continue reading →

So I get a call from Marvel in New York. They’re releasing a collection of Star Wars newspaper comic strips I wrote in 1979, under the name Russ Helm. May the farce be with you!

God bless Butch Trucks. Watching Butch and Jaimoe drum together in the Allman Brothers was a symbol of all the good things about playing music in the South.

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Syncopation as an antidote to depression Modern society has been programmed to march on the downbeat. Stay in step, do what you’re told. This is reinforced with march music. Marching is flatfooted. It’s on the downbeat. There is no syncopation. … Continue reading →

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