as now

Tommy the Drummer, November 2010. (Tanya photo)

Fun to be drumming again!

There is a Free Presbyterian church just down the hill from our apartment and they like drumming and tambourines and sing-along music like that as a part of their worship service--sort of Pentecostal but not exactly Holy Roller-- and I get to play and sing what I call Jesus Rock down there once or twice a week.

The audience is appreciative and not a bunch of drunks as is usual with professional live music performance--and the gigs are reasonable times of day--mornings or evenings and not late night things. 

I really get into it.

It's fun.

Tommy the Drummer

(But I kind of miss the dance floor though...)

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My Shadow

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My Shadow Singing,

Roberto invited me to sit in at a rehearsal for his five-piece band which plays once a month for the Sunday service at the Life and Light church below and behind  our apartment.

The tunes are mostly rocky and rolly with a Gospel theme.

I don't know the music, but the beat is very familiar--so I can do it.

I also got to sing the tenor harmony or sometimes the baritone or even the bass which was fun--since it has been a while since I exercised my vocal chords in song.

Good fun.

Tommy the Drummer

Tommy-eye View

So it is.

It has come to this!

My payless drumming gig is now the every-Friday morning pre-chapel service at the Light and Life Elementary School Chapel Service in Escondido, CA!

Many miles and many years from the Waikiki Club Scene, BUT... what the heck! Most of my contemporary drummers and rock musicians drank themselves to death--or worse--years ago--so all things considered--NOT TOO BAD!.

 Tommy the Drummer-eye View. September, 2010.

More to come.

Tommy the Drummer

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tommythedrummer BEGINS

Me, Tomakua, in California, August 2010. (Tanya photo)

Hi.

This is Tommy the Drummer and this is the first page of my new blog.

It has been a few years since I worked Hotel Street and the Service Clubs in Hawaii and the Waikiki Scene--but I haven't forgotten those good old days!

Who COULD forget the night I almost got gunned down at the E-Club in Mosquito Junction, Pearl Harbor--or the night of the GREAT DONNYBROOK at Nora's on Hotel Street!

Or the night I almost had to eat a knuckle sandwich at the Kaneohe Marine Base E-Club?

Who COULD forget Duggie the Guitar or Mighty Vi or the Impact Trio or The Tidesmen?

Or the day Johnny's Porthole Johnny literally threw me out of his office--one-armed though he was--when I asked for a raise for my band.

So Long Gone but so Not Forgotten!

And these blog postings seems the perfect place to immortalize these, to me, stupendous events--as they say.

Well, I don't know WHO you are or WHY you take your precious life-time minutes--which will NEVER return to you, as you know--to look at this, my blog story--but you are welcome and more than welcome!

Best of the BEST to you!

tommythedrummer

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