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About Me

I believe in "a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done". -- Barack Obama (from his book "The Audacity of Hope")
I am not saying I would vote for Mr. Obama, yet, it is a bit too far ahead for making such a choice, but I sure do think he has some excellent things to say...I wish us all good luck and hope we can find the best person in 2008.
Well...my name is Chris and I play drums. Until recently, my main gig was with the band Jupiter Sunrise . We are not really doing much of anything at the moment, so if you need some drums, let me know and we'll see what we can do! I was put on this planet to play drums...so I do it and I love it. Nothing else makes me feel as good as rockin' the drums and meeting new people. Send me a message if you have any specific questions or if you just want to be a "friend". Rock on!

My Interests

Music (obviously), I am a vegan. , sports (more playing than watching...and for taht matter...I started playing soccer again!!!), movies

I'd like to meet:

I am not really here to "meet" anyone...more to stay in touch with people I have met...and to share ideas. If you want to add me here and we don't really already know each other, I have but one simple requirement...SEND ME A MESSAGE...that let's me know you actually care and are not just trying to up your friend count. Thanks! Be safe and good to each other. Rock on!

Music:

Jupiter Sunrise .
Perfect Thyroid .
The only other band I was in that played shows was called T.A.I. think about it. My 4 favorite bands of all time are The Police, System of a Down, Fishbone, and Genesis.

I play Precision Drums and Silver Fox drum sticks. Both companies are super great to me and are run by really awesome people! And they make great products (which is most important right?)! Check them out if you are interested in drum products. Thanks.

Important music news this week...
In case you have not noticed, Jupiter Sunrise is not up to much these days. We are taking some time to work on ourselves. The future, always wide open, no doors shut, but who knows what the future will hold. I personally am enjoying spending some time in one place (NY) and have been playing more drums (minutes per day) now than when we were on tour! The barn that JS was writing and rehearsing in here in NY has turned into a place to host some seriously fun jams. Some friends of mine, old and new, from JS and PT and other random places, have been getting together in New Paltz on Tuesday nights raiding the Snug Harbor Open Mic Night. A year ago I recorded drums for a still upcoming record for the Brian Kaplan Band and now it looks like I might be playing with Brian live sometimes too. And I also recently recorded some drums for a local singer songwriter named Steve Schultz. Ol' Bones P'skipskee is showing up at the open mics too...super fun! So that is my musical story for now. Rock on!

Movies:

Seems as if I have been seeing some depressingy inspiring movies lately...just openning ones eyes again to the horrible things that happen all over the world and how lucky we are to have what we have. Hotel Rawanda and The Last King of Scotland are the movies that I am reffering to here.

Television:

The Colbert Report STILL RULES all of television!

Books:

I have been reading a couple books lately...and if you know me, you know reading takes me forever! the Omnivore's Dilemma and just recently picked up Barack Obama's book the Audacity of Hope.

My Blog

right and wrong and grey and gray

This here tidbit is part of a little forum topic I started on the Environmentalist Group I am in on here. I asked who was veg and people responded here and there. Then somone started a bit...
Posted by Snykus Silly on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:27:00 PST

a blog...about bulletins..ha ha

Those fwd. ultimatum bulletins suck. (You know, the ones that only say soemthing like 'repost this or else something will happen!') I don't want to get any more of those. I care about you and actua...
Posted by Snykus Silly on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 02:01:00 PST

Drummers - the good stuff

This here is another post I made on a drummer forum that I wanted to share here. Everyone was discussing "What makes a drummer good these days." They had mentioned everything you could pos...
Posted by Snykus Silly on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:15:00 PST

Electronic Drum Usage

I bought the lowest level Roland kit with the TD-3 brain. I bought it to use for rehearsals with my band...both running the kit with all other band inputs through a mixer and we all used headphones......
Posted by Snykus Silly on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:48:00 PST

If you want to know about me as a drummer...

Yo Yo Drum Rockers!!! My name is Chris and it is a pleasure to meet ya'll. I grew up in NY (which is where I got picked in 4th grade to play the tom tom for the choir performance of the Little D...
Posted by Snykus Silly on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:09:00 PST

Rating things (inspired by rating drummers)

I posted this on a forum in a drummer group I am in. It was on the subject of most overrated and underrated drummers...silly... ------------------------------------------------------------ ------...
Posted by Snykus Silly on Sat, 29 Oct 2005 02:15:00 PST

Electronic Drums RULE!!!

So...a couple days ago...I experienced a day like Christmas with a man dressed in brown who was like Santa! I just bought some new Roland V-drums from my good friend Rob (from the band Harris)! The ...
Posted by Snykus Silly on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST