For Vetuste-Ennemi. Speaking Of Youtube...

[The Builder]

Tractor drummer (yes, really)
As a part-time musician, I know something of drummers.
Nothing beats this tractor though...
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[andy-hughes]

As a writer for two international drum magazines, I know a serious amount about drums, and the tractor has it got its timing just about perfect!

Wonderful!

[The Builder]

Thanks Andy.
The sax teacher I used to go to has a son who's a pro drummer. He gets one of those mags.......... I've seen your name ;o)

Nice polyrhythms going on between the exhaust and the tappets eh?

[Mamyalynne]

Love that, I don't know one drummer who has all their marbles but they're usually great fun.

[jno]

true, mamya, what do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians...

[Ryzen]

Brilliant...sweet David Brown

[andy-hughes]

The Builder - // Thanks Andy.
The sax teacher I used to go to has a son who's a pro drummer. He gets one of those mags.......... I've seen your name ;o) //


Cool, thanks!

[Lie-in King]

Excellent! :-))

[The Builder]

Thanks all.

I like to think it happened quite by accident. Maybe not, but a nice thought.

[The Builder]

Don't start with the "drummer" jokes, jno. We could be here all night.

Definition of "perfect pitch"....
Throwing the drum kit into the skip without hitting the banjo.............

Substitute accordion/bagpipes/trombone according to taste ;o)

[alavahalf]

Have'nt got a joke about a drummer, but I have one about bagpipes. If I remember rightly Andy was in Canada last time I told it .. he liked it then !

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Enjoy every moment of life.
As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a pauper's cemetery in the back of beyond.

As I was not familiar with the backwoods, I got lost and, being a typical man, I didn't stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch. I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late.



I went to the side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in place. I didn't know what else to do, so I started to play



The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like I've never played before for this homeless man.



And as I played "Amazing Grace", the workers began to weep. They wept, I wept, we all wept together. When I finished, I packed up my bagpipes and started for my car. Though my head was hung low, my heart was full.



As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I never saw anything like that before, and I've been putting in septic tanks for thirty years."

[andy-hughes]

alavahalf - And I loved it all over again - thank you!!

[The Builder]

Homer, that's brilliant. I shall remember it the next time I'm installing a septic tank ;o)