We talk all about cases on this week's show!  Carter brings the news (including a disgusting Joey Jordison story), Keith Moon is the drummer of the week, and the Cheese-pata-flafla is the hybrid rudiment of the week.  Show Notes

In a nod to taking himself seriously, Slipknot's Joey Jordison has left Ahead drumsticks for Pro-Mark. Whether you're a Vic Firth, Pro-Mark, Zildjian, Vater, etc... I think we can all agree that Pro-Mark's a step... well... ahead... of Ahead sticks. Source: Harmony-Central.com Pro-Mark is proud to announce that Joey Jordison, drummer for the Grammy Award winning heavy metal powerhouse, Slipknot, has joined Pro-Mark's impressive roster of Autograph Series artists. The TX515W Joey Jordison model is .551" (14mm) in ...

Looks like gospel drumming is everywhere we turn these days. After a wonderful night at the Teddy Campbell clinic at Memphis Drum Shop Tuesday (review coming on this week's show), looks like today that Vater has released several models of gospel sticks. Not sure how these sticks are customized for gospel drumming. The finish looks like the same from the Zildjian Travis Barker signatures, which I recall despising. We'll have to try some out and ...

Source: Harmony Central The new Legends of Jazz Series features stick models from master Jazz drummers Jimmy Cobb, Chico Hamilton and Charli Persip. With over 1,000 albums recorded between them, Cobb, Hamilton and Persip are musical legends. Each model was designed to meet their individual sound and feel preferences. Read more ...

In what seems like a "why did they wait so long" kind of story, Vic Firth has recently unveiled a new Lenny White Signature stick to correspond with White's reunion with Return 2 Forever and their tour. The stick is 16" long and .580" in diameter - between and 5A and 5B.  Think Erkine ride stick with a beefier tip. There are lots of cool videos and more over at VF.com's Lenny White page.

Source: Drummerszone.com Legendary jazz drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton, born September 21st, 1921 in Los Angeles, had a fast track musical education in a band with his schoolmates Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso. Chico's engagements with Lionel Hampton, Slim & Slam, T-Bone Walker, Lester Young, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Barnett, Billy Eckstine, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan and six years with ...

I wrote this drumming related paper at 10:53 PM on April 3rd for an English class I have at 8:00 AM April 4th. Procrastination, thy name is JABB. If you’re like me, you will be strolling along one day, minding your own business when all of a sudden you will be hit with an earth-shattering realization. “I don’t know the best way to hold a pair of drumsticks!” You will scream to the sky, most ...

Promo video of the Vic Firth Manufacturing process. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pL5EhqblxI]

Hotsticks, the world's leader in whacked, graphic sticks has just announced three new Artistick finishes. While I applaud these guys for leading the industry in the graphic stick market (they were the first and only player in the colored sticks market back in the day), I just can't get on board with full color printed sticks. Especially sticks which sport bikini-clad women, 1990's tribal tats, or "da benjamins!" Cool as a novelty, but you're ...

These are Tala Wands. The top one is the smaller and more sticklike bamboo version and the bottom one is the bigger birch model and feels more like a rod in the traditional sense of the word. These things came into being when Steve Smith started getting into indian rhythms. He started playing with giants in indian music like his current favorite drummer Zakir Hussain.He noticed that the drum-set, when played with sticks, was overpowering ...