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Rick A. Hansen

Serving your drumming needs for over 30 years

About Me

I play drums with the Compaq Big Band, a 20-piece swing band from the Boston area - www.compaqbigband.com - I also play drums with Al Arena and Watch City, a bluesy American-roots original and cover band.

My Interests

Playing drums, riding my motorcycle, hardwood charcoal grilling, gardening, watching vintage and experimental aircraft, birding, playing piano/guitar/bass, reading thick boring books, eating very small bowls of ice cream, and of course kicking it old-school

I'd like to meet:

Brett Favre

Music:

Dresden Dolls, Ditty Bops, They Might Be Giants, Modest Mouse, Police, Johnny Cash, Buddy Rich, Bela Bartok, John Coltrane, Gang of Four, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Josh Redman, Rodrigo y Gabriela, J.S. Bach, Neil Young, Gordon Goodwin, Beatles, Tom Waits, Rolling Stones, Hector Berlioz, Who, Led Zeppelin; the musicals West Side Story and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Movies:

Brazil, Apocolypse Now, Buckaroo Banzai, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, Das Boot, Blues Brothers, Team America World Police, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Television:

The History Channel, Red Sox, Nova, Flight of the Concords

Books:

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes; Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck; Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hoftstadter; Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond; The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

Heroes:

Richard Feynman (physicist), Butch Miles (Count Basie's drummer), Gordon Sumner