A starving musician with a dream, a girl, and a crazy hobby

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33474382433683298392012-02-15T22:21:59.180-08:00A starving musician with a dream, a girl, and a crazy hobbyThe story of me, a drummer, who has a metal band that is working hard, trying to "make it big" in this world full of other, cookie cutter bands. I balance that with my gf, who is very important to me. We have been together for a year and she is the greatest person in the world. I have a crazy hobby of balloon collecting, so I live quite the interesting life.BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-66700631392947002682008-10-27T18:38:00.000-07:002008-10-27T19:09:20.209-07:00Guide for new Bands: Merchandise

Something I've been seeing a lot lately with new bands is this 'Do or die' mentality, where they think that just making the music will get them rich. 15 years ago, and I'd totally agree, but in this day and age, where music can be pulled from the internet in an instant, and CDs sell for less than a CD player, money, especially for new bands, has to come from somewhere else. Merchandise is just

BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-83183431997643005202008-10-25T14:30:00.000-07:002008-10-25T15:03:45.725-07:00Pulse Pro 5 piece review part 2

Continuing with the review, lets now take a gander at the hardware and cymbals that accompanied this set.The set comes with Pulse 14 hi hats, 16 crash and 18 crash/ride.First, the 14 hi hats.Closed, these things are almost silent. They are kinda gross sounding, and really lack that good 'chick' sound we all want. Open these puppies up, and its like you have a new set of cymbals! When open, they

BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-20342434384415313662008-10-25T13:57:00.000-07:002008-10-25T14:29:55.329-07:00Pulse Pro 5 piece review Part 1

I promised a review, but I decided to do a drum review because that is more my style.Pulse Pro 5-piece drum set with Cymbalspruchased from http://www.musiciansfriend.comPrice - ~$400 (I got it on sale for 300)I will be reviewing my personal drumset, my Pulse Pro 5 Piece. I will address all aspects, good and bad, and include pics of all parts.Lets start out with the biggest and boldest part of the

BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-85213097575943132432008-10-25T06:26:00.000-07:002008-10-25T06:39:12.904-07:00Long night

Oh wow. So its 9:30 in the morning as I type this. Last night was such a party, Im so tired now and my head is throbbing. One of my close friends was having a costume party at her house, so me and the gf went. We are idiots though, so we dressed up as vampires, which oh so original.Well, we get there, me in my black suit with cap, piercings and dark make up, and Amanda in her also dark make up

BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-73516117582176102882008-10-23T16:46:00.000-07:002008-10-23T19:41:59.448-07:00Halloween shopping with my beautiful

Today, after school, me and my lovely went shopping for halloween costumes. We made a horrible mistake of going to, of all places, Wal-Mart. :/ There was one aisle of costumes, half were little kids, the other half were trampy adult ones. Finally, an hour after looking through the same 5 racks of slutty female costumes, we found one that was decent that we could match in. She got a Elizabethan

BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-61451672011122620012008-10-21T12:40:00.000-07:002008-10-21T12:56:59.961-07:00Wow, pinched nerve and trying to practice

So today, at school, I pinched a nerve in my shoulder and it hurts. I dont mean 'Owie, I got a papercut' hurts, I mean My WHOLE ARM AND SHOULDER ARE ON FIRE!!! I can feel the pain go from my shoulder down my arm and also up my neck. Its so painful. D:I was trying to move a filing cabinent today for someone, and I pulled up waaay fast and wrong, and just felt like I got hit by lightning and was so

BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-35951615495933389172008-10-20T16:10:00.000-07:002008-10-20T16:17:29.799-07:0010/19/08 Practice and balloons

So Monday, I got new balloons!!! I'm good friends with a guy who runs a balloon import business, and so I do some advertising for him and so he hooks me up with balloons. I had a gift certificate too... ;)I ordered some balloons, and he included so many!! I only ordered 72 Black 17" balloons and an Italian 5' Doll. He included an EXTRA Doll, along with about 15 bucks of extras.... Hes awesome!

BalloonDrummerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15351860108176419108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3347438243368329839.post-38276769997597938242008-10-20T15:46:00.000-07:002008-10-20T16:23:10.443-07:00Intro Post of sorts

So my name is Josh. I live in Florida, and I'm a drummer. Believe it or not, I'm actually a writer who is writing my first novel right now, just don't be surprised if I type like a total goof-ball on here, as I'm not really trying to be super proper. I will try to break this post up into many different "categories" of sorts to better describe myself, so lets get into it.My first and greatest love

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