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Drummer nicknames.....
- Thread starter Mike N
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Sugar was the only one with a nickname. Sug, for short.
other than that band (Which was a good 29 years ago now), it's been Dave, Chris, John. Really stretching the naming scheme with those last ones.
other than that band (Which was a good 29 years ago now), it's been Dave, Chris, John. Really stretching the naming scheme with those last ones.
Grammy award winning drummer in my last(sadly) band, The Guv'nah. Looking forward to playing with him again soon. We were solid as peanut butter and jelly.
We call my best friend (and excellent drummer who I have played with on and off for years) "Cylinder Man"
A friend called their drummer 'Lightning" because he never struck the same place twice.
We named a guitar player that years ago. We were in our mid 30's and he was a young kid that answered our ad for a 90's/2000's rock band that played Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls etc....
Well, speed racer shows up for the audition with more pedals than I've ever seen and proceeds to do nothing but shred up and down the neck for the entire time...... Picture Yngwie trying to play Plush by STP and you'll get the picture...
We had a drummer who toured with Eric Moore. So heavy handed I called him Thor
One is Bobby Custom (he builds his own kits)
The other is Pony Boy, because he needed some externally imposed humility.
The other is Pony Boy, because he needed some externally imposed humility.
I played with a drummer who's nick name was 'Mad Dog' - he was originally from Alaska and had moved to NZ in the 2000's to marry a women he met online... he ended up meeting someone else and married her instead (long story apparently)
Anyway he was a huge man and easily weighed 150kgs / 330lbs, but he had the enthusiasm and stamina of a 12 year old kid
We initially got him in the band to do a new years gig as our drummer had to leave the band suddenly.
We had a couple of rehearsals with him and he had a tama 5pc kit...... he asked guitarist how big the stage was at the place we were playing in for NYE and guitarist said it was a big stage.
I thought nothing of it, so on the day we drove to the venue (about 3 hours away) and get into the bar to find 'mad dog' had not only bought his 5pc Tama kit, but he had bought every other piece of drum equipment he owned! - 2 extra concert toms, some roto-toms, 5 mounted cowbells (yes that's 5 cowbells) some bits of an old tama electric kit, wooden blocks, mounted tambourine plus about 6 cymbals and stands.... we asked him if his wife came with him and he said "there was no room in the car"!
thankfully that's the only gig where he bought 'the works' drum set up - most other times he just bought his standard 5pc kit
Anyway he was a huge man and easily weighed 150kgs / 330lbs, but he had the enthusiasm and stamina of a 12 year old kid
We initially got him in the band to do a new years gig as our drummer had to leave the band suddenly.
We had a couple of rehearsals with him and he had a tama 5pc kit...... he asked guitarist how big the stage was at the place we were playing in for NYE and guitarist said it was a big stage.
I thought nothing of it, so on the day we drove to the venue (about 3 hours away) and get into the bar to find 'mad dog' had not only bought his 5pc Tama kit, but he had bought every other piece of drum equipment he owned! - 2 extra concert toms, some roto-toms, 5 mounted cowbells (yes that's 5 cowbells) some bits of an old tama electric kit, wooden blocks, mounted tambourine plus about 6 cymbals and stands.... we asked him if his wife came with him and he said "there was no room in the car"!
thankfully that's the only gig where he bought 'the works' drum set up - most other times he just bought his standard 5pc kit
and you couldn't shut him up.
The drummer usually gets fired before anyone bothers to learn his name. I do think I heard “Joel” once, but someone may have just been saying he was a “joke”. I don’t know, hard to say at this point.
