Got a cool heads up from Jim Pettit, owner of Memphis Drum Shop (aka The Best Drum Shop on the Face of the Planet) today. For all those in the Memphis area tomorrow the good folks from Roland USA will be in store for free one-on-one lessons and small group lessons on any Roland product. Basically, if you've got a piece of Roland equipment that maybe you don't know how to get the most out ...

The Memphis boys are at it again!  They're streaming another clinic live, and for free, over at MyCymbal.com and MemphisDrumShop.com.  The clinic is today, at 7pm (Central)! Check it out!  

Our good friends over at Memphis Drum Shop have just unveiled their Gong Chamber, and here's an epic video of them getting their 80" Paiste gong in place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS3_UDNEbG0

We talk all about the upcoming Cymbal Summit on today's show.  We bring news of PAS drumset competition,Stanton Moore clinic tour, and The Killers' Ron Vannucci is the drummer of the week!  Show Notes  Direct Download

Good things come in groups, I guess. Flipside Memphis, which is a series of videos about local Memphis music and such that MTV has recently put out, put together a short video about the Memphis Drum Shop. I know we've talked about our love for MDS ad nauseum on the show, but I think this video really sums it up. AND, the main narrator is my own instructor, Renardo Ward. Pretty cool. Check it out. ...

Great news for Jim Petit and the guys at the Memphis Drum Shop! Music Inc. Magazine has named MDS as it's 2008 Independent Retailer of the Year and ran a long feature article on owner/founder Jim Petit in a recent issue. VERY interesting read. You can download the article itself from the magazine's website here. Check the links below for more info on Memphis Drum Shop or Music Inc. Congrats to MDS! Best Drum Shop ...

Proving that the Memphis Drum Shop is a top notch and high caliber establishment, a couple of the drumming community's up and coming players dropped by recently and showcased some of their talent. Ronald Bruner Jr. (Stanley Clark) and Jason McGerr (Death Cab For Cutie) both sat down at the kit in MDS's cymbal vault (which houses the largest Zildjian collection in the world outside of the Zildjian factory itself) and gave viewers a tiny ...

Our good friends at the Memphis Drum Shop have a great video on their website of Pearl rep Gene Okamato demonstrating the ins and outs of the Pearl's new Demon Drive (reported on Drummertalk recently). I love the demonstration of the bearings. Makes me want to buy one now. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2vT18AIv4&eurl=http://memphisdrumshop.com/?cat=0&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Source: memphisdrumshop.com Gene Okamoto from Pearl Drums stopped by our shop to showcase the new Pearl Eliminator Demon Drive Pedal. Our staff was totally impressed by this new ...

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 ...

While we are Drumathon-ing, please enjoy one of the shows from our archive. This show was originally posted on September 15, 2005. ---------- The second real show features Dave, Ian Mac, and Bryan Rumfola. In this episode we discuss New Orleans, World's Fastest Drummer, clinics and the Memphis Drum Shop, and entry level kits. CORRECTION: In this week's podcast, I mentioned that Paiste was a Finnish company when in fact, it is a Swiss company. Man, I was ...