I'm putting together songs for the Dorian winter recital, digging out old rock tunes that my students can handle. My first chance to perform rock tunes came at a recital -- I played drums for Queen's "Show Must Go On", as well as this strange rock version of Beethoven's 9th that some dude from Deep Purple or something put together. . . I worry that I torture my students with out of date rock in much the same way I was, but then, I really had a great time playing those old lame tunes. . . My students have a much wider exposure to music, what with this whole "internet" thing, and they have stronger opinions that I ever had about what is cool or not. Most of the contemporary stuff I know is through them and the songs they want to learn. One interesting note is that 3 of them have wanted to learn Nirvana's "In Bloom" -- which is a pretty cool bit of drumming from back when I was their age. . .
Enjoy the day,
Jay.
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