The name of the drummer

**Barrett Dorko** · 18-04-2012, 01:14 PM

I know a little bit about drumming, and in the car I’ll play the 9 minute version of this classic.

Often while speaking to patients over the age of 70, some of whom were really struggling with memory, the subject would become old songs. I had Benny Goodman on my computer nearby and I would ask who was playing the drums, and they almost always knew. But the trumpeter, even the clarinet player, were often beyond them.

In the long version of the song the drummer plays a number of solos and what you see him do at the end requires strength and endurance beyond imagining. I would know.

He didn’t lift any weights or run long distances. According to the movie, he behaved rather badly. But what he did lasts, and, in my opinion, has never been surpassed.

And those of us old enough always remember his name.

**Barrett Dorko** · 18-04-2012, 05:58 PM

It was this song that possessed me during my senior year of high school.

I'd play pool at a friend's house and we'd play it loud - especially the drum solo.

**zimney3pt** · 18-04-2012, 07:17 PM

When ever someone brings up drumming I always go to this TED presentation by Evelyn Glennie (she is deaf). Barrett you have brought her up before here.

**Barrett Dorko** · 18-04-2012, 08:50 PM

Thanks for remembering this. There’s a bit of this around the seventh minute where Glennie makes clear the difference between technical skill and the sort of thing a human might do.

I think that this is often lost on therapists who would rather it were not so.

**amacs** · 19-04-2012, 12:23 AM

her first teacher must have been quite something too, if only I had the vision to learn physio in such a way before picking up all the verbiage

ANdy

18-04-2012, 01:14 PM	#1
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,689 Thanks: 616 Thanked 1,488 Times in 873 Posts	The name of the drummer I know a little bit about drumming, and in the car I’ll play the 9 minute version of this classic. Often while speaking to patients over the age of 70, some of whom were really struggling with memory, the subject would become old songs. I had Benny Goodman on my computer nearby and I would ask who was playing the drums, and they almost always knew. But the trumpeter, even the clarinet player, were often beyond them. In the long version of the song the drummer plays a number of solos and what you see him do at the end requires strength and endurance beyond imagining. I would know. He didn’t lift any weights or run long distances. According to the movie, he behaved rather badly. But what he did lasts, and, in my opinion, has never been surpassed. And those of us old enough always remember his name. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

18-04-2012, 05:58 PM	#2
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,689 Thanks: 616 Thanked 1,488 Times in 873 Posts	It was this song that possessed me during my senior year of high school. I'd play pool at a friend's house and we'd play it loud - especially the drum solo. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

18-04-2012, 07:17 PM	#3
zimney3pt life long learner, clinician, and instructor Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Sioux City, IA Age: 43 Posts: 1,902 Thanks: 149 Thanked 677 Times in 265 Posts	When ever someone brings up drumming I always go to this TED presentation by Evelyn Glennie (she is deaf). Barrett you have brought her up before here. __________________ Kory Zimney, PT, DPT http://koryzimney.blogspot.com "Study principles not methods, a mind that can grasp principles will create its own methods." - Gill "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." - Galileo Galilei

18-04-2012, 08:50 PM	#4
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,689 Thanks: 616 Thanked 1,488 Times in 873 Posts	Thanks for remembering this. There’s a bit of this around the seventh minute where Glennie makes clear the difference between technical skill and the sort of thing a human might do. I think that this is often lost on therapists who would rather it were not so. __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

19-04-2012, 12:23 AM	#5
amacs A bear of little brain Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK Posts: 1,397 Thanks: 175 Thanked 255 Times in 128 Posts	her first teacher must have been quite something too, if only I had the vision to learn physio in such a way before picking up all the verbiage ANdy __________________ "Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it." A.A. Milne

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