Street Drums

[ColinGWood]

So, I'm heading to University next year.

When thinking about part time jobs I could pick up I thought of all the obvious.. push carts, flip burgs, score keep at the hockey rink... when it hit me.

I'll street drum.

Anybody here ever done it? suggestions for pieces please!

This whole summer will be a time for collecting pieces and practicing here in my hometown, before i hit the big time

what are some cool pieces? I'm looking for off the wall ideas here folks!

[Phalex]

Pickle buckets. My drummer spent an hour or two on a street corner in Manhattan playing pickle buckets with a homeless dude (I guess he could have been a university student). my drummy was there on business wearing a nice suit and the other dude was kinda disheveled.

He said they had a great time and the guy had a bucket full of money when he left.

He said the guy got all sorts of tones out of those buckets. It sounds like if you can find the sweet spots on a pickle bucket, it can be pretty amazing.

[megadan]

Those big 20L plastic water jugs, like the kind you get at the grocery store.

[bongomania]

Plastic buckets of all sizes, pots and pans, propane tanks, oil drums, file cabinets, big pieces of bamboo, plastic sewer pipe, sheet-metal vent tubing, PVC pipe, steel salad-mixing bowls, hardsided suitcases, toolboxes, garage-door-opener springs, boat propellers, folding chairs, coffee cans...

One neat trick is to put a handful of bb's into a wood or plastic box. Now you've got a snare drum!

[M0ses]

Hey, not about buckets, but you can "donate" plasma every 3 days and make $50 in, like, half an hour. You have to be eighteen, which is the only reason I'm not doing it yet.