Romey’s Ramblings

Last night Greenfoot played a show over at Herman’s Hideaway (for which I’ll offer some additional thoughts in a later post).  As part of the “New Talent Showcase”, one of the important stipulations were the two dreaded words drummers hate to hear “House Drumset”.

I cringed when I heard the news, and after playing the [...]

As many of you know, drumming is an important part of my life, and something I thoroughly enjoy.  In addition to Greenfoot and playing at my church, I’ve also joined the Wiseacres Jazz Band.  Jazz drumming has been a challenge, but it’s also been a blast.  Between these three groups there are numerous gigging opportunities, [...]

I’ve been a bit scarce this week because I’ve been drumming pretty much every night.  On Monday night I had rehearsal for an one-time “Barnyard Band”, where we’re doing old-school country songs.  On Tuesday I had Greenfoot practice, as we have our “we’re back” show on Thursday and ended up drumming for almost 4 hours [...]

Last week turned out to be a busy one for Greenfoot.  Fresh off of playing a show last weekend, we had another one scheduled for Thursday night at The D Note, one of our favorite venues.  As with all shows, we have different avenues of promotion: the fliers at and surrounding the venue, posting on [...]

Check out this story in the Florida Today
I came across this story and it just reminds me how infuriating this royalties issue is to me.  It’s great to see that an organization set up to protect the songwriters is really screwing up other song-writers and artists.  This goes back to what I blogged about last [...]