There's No Sound In Flutes!

As many of you devoted followers of this blog know, my son, Lukas, plays the drums. He's recently taken a few days off from his nearly constant musical diet of the Descendents to immerse himself in Buddy Rich's playing. It was mostly for a school report, but he got pretty into it, and we watched a DVD about the guy that had about a zillion drum solos in it. And in the era of YouTube and such, the legendary bus tapes are easier than ever to come by, in case Lukas needed any lessons in swearing and craziness. But even I, avowed jazz doubter and drum solo hater, had to admit that besides the obvious technical wizardry, there's a pretty amazing musicality at work in those solos.

So (also as part of this school thing), Lukas recorded a short sample of himself doing some Buddy Rich-style playing. Enjoy. It's no "Pusscat" or "Wienerschnitzel," but what is?