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B R@d!

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About Me

I play drums for Jason Boland & The Stragglers, and you don't! I enjoy making music, and making a fool of myself, these seem to be the things I do best. I love my wife and my 2 beautiful sons, Shine Custom Drums, Soultone Cymbals and Lost Cauze clothing. Thanks for listening.

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My Interests

Hangin' with my wife and sons. Playing the drums. Travelin on the road with the band. Listening to my ipod. tattoos. slick cars. tour buses. cool t-shirts. education.

I'd like to meet:

Travis Barker, Dave Weckl, Bill Clinton, Seth McFarlane. i did meet Chad Sexton in the Target parking lot in Tulsa, but I was too nervous to make sense. I guess I'd like another crack at that.

Music:

Zeppelin, Transplants, Incubus, Harry Connick Jr., Avenged Sevenfold, Dave Weckl, Gram Parsons, Beck, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Black Crowes, Boxcar Racer, Hank III, Jazz is Dead, moe, Mr. Blotto, Social Distortion, Waylon Jennings, Snoop Dogg, the first simple plan record, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Mike McClure, Face to Face, The Used, Slipknot, Frank Zappa, Jackson Browne, Ozzy, Dream Theater, Project Z, Travis Linville, Jet, Mazzy Star, Pink Floyd, Robbie Fulks, Neil Diamond, Wille Nelson, Tenacious D, Foo Fighters, Guns N roses, Stargunn, Less Than Jake, South Austin Jug Band, bolth on the rampage, Bela Fleck, A Life Once Lost, mastodon, Between The Buried & Me, Every Time I Die, Chimaira, Clutch, Tool, WEEN, Motley Crue

Movies:

Empire of The Sun, Edward Scissorhands, Raising Arizona, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, The Big Lebowski, Royal Tennenbaums

Television:

Family Guy, ATHF, Simpsons, basketball, football, Chappelle show, Squidbillies, Harvey Birdman, Creature Comforts, Metalocalypse, Psych

Books:

Budding Prospects, The Tortilla Curtain, The Inner Circle, To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher in The Rye, John Bonham: The Powerhouse Behind Led Zeppelin, Miles, The Tortilla Flats, just now getting into Chuck Palahniuk, The Heroin Diaries, The Long Road Out OF Hell

Heroes:

My mom, Jesus, Dave Weckl, Travis Barker, John muthafuckin' Bonham

My Blog

Lost Cauze Clothing

I wanted to announce to my friends that I am endorsing Lost Cauze Clothing, simply because the designs this guy does are the shit.  End of story, so check em out, they are on my top 8.
Posted by B R@d! on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:41:00 PST

i fucking love music

My family members were kind enough to listen to my Christmas requests, so most everyone gave me itunes gift cards.  I've been expanding my horizons a bit, trying to throw some culture into my mus...
Posted by B R@d! on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:34:00 PST

Senriu, not haiku

The other morning I was driving to meet the bus, drinking coffe, and then redbull (it was a late night), and I had an idea for a haiku.  It's always bothered me that some folks fail to pronunce t...
Posted by B R@d! on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:22:00 PST

books, books, and more books

So I hope everyone had a great holiday, I'm preparing to got to the mall with wife and son in tow, fight the crowds.  Why?  Why not?  Anyhoo, I wanted to share with other drummers a boo...
Posted by B R@d! on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:31:00 PST

I'm a Shine fan

So I got my Shine kit yesterday, I actually had to drive out to the Tulsa airport to get 'em.  Delivery wasn't scheduled until today, so I went ahead and picked them up at DHL.  I've got the...
Posted by B R@d! on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:40:00 PST

drummer talk

Ok, back from a shower, feeling revived and smellin' nice...Back to drums. I was just getting to my backup snare, it was a Spaun clear acrylic, 5 1/2x14, with sand-blasted flames.  It looked awes...
Posted by B R@d! on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:12:00 PST

drummer talk

Ok, I've had a few requests to delve deeper into my drumsick brain, not really sure where to start.  Most recently, I have been playing an Orange County drum kit, but as most everyone has heard b...
Posted by B R@d! on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:50:00 PST

word

Ok, so I'm a little new at the myspace thing.  Tryin to get everything up and running here.  The band is in heltoes, texas tonite playing a benefit for an underpriveliged family, which has t...
Posted by B R@d! on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 05:44:00 PST