Top 10 Cheesy questions asked at a drum clinic

[latim]

::this posted is inspired by the local hangout of some fellow LA/OC HODDERS::

I'll start with number 10.

drum roll please (rrllrrllrrllrrllrrllrrll..)

10. What shoes do you wear?

[Jean-Paul]

Recently a question for Terry Bozzio and I saw it on the guestbook of Vinnie too; "What do you think of Mike Portnoy?" LMAOL

[S.P]

Recently asked at a Weckl Clinic i went to

Person (who was taking notes): What kind of ear protection do you use.

Dave: I use many different ones, metrophones, in ear monitors, vic firth iso's etc

Person: Ok, but if you had to choose a favourite one, which would it be -_-

[Klemme]

I went to a Gary Husband Clinic some months ago, and a guy sat in front of me and really had a great time! and when we came to questions, he asked Gary of what he thought about Lars Ulrich [img]smile.gif[/img]

Gary Husband handled the Question very well! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

I've been to alot of clinics lately and what usually strikes me is that people asks questions out of context, not that it is a bad thing. I would just be imagining how confusing answering to all this would be - while trying to have a steady flowing progress of a clinic.

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[Henry II]

At a Virgil Donati clinic: "would you play with my sticks."

[Suspiria]

Here's what went down at a Thomas Lang clinic I visited:

Person from audience: What can't you do?
***Absolute silence. I wanted to shoot myself already...***
Thomas: Cook. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[cjbdrm]

It's always funny to me when someone asks a clinician their opinion of another drummer...it's annoying, but it's worth it to see the look of bewilderment on their faces...

[Mazzhole]

I was at a simon Phillips clinic/performance. He came with a hell of a band too! He brought Gary Willis and Dave Fucinsnki. We'll they were all fielding questions. this guy stands up and asks willis about how he plays " Clown darts" on the bass. You should have seen his face!!!!!!!! Clown Darts? He kept his composure quite well. After about 5 minutes of willis asking this guy what the hell he was talking about, they settled it. The guy was asking about double stops on the bass. Clown Darts..

Ok .. my second best was at a Dennis Chambers clinic at Daddy's in Boston. A student asked .. "Dennis , can you take your hat off?" he actually did. Now this was when he always had that had on. Funny thing, After that clinic Dennis started going hatless in ads and on gigs.
funny stuff.. This is a great thread!

[S.P]

actually i got one from my omar hakim clinic, wasn't so much a cheesy question but more unusual

Guy: (in a borat (from Ali G) accent): Omar, Can i jam with you?
Omar: ;| what instrument do you play
Guy: (always in borat accent) The trumpet
Omar: Alright come on up

The guy came up with this tiny trumpet
And then Omar starts this sort of half jazz half funky groove! And they ended up burning!!! The guy on trumpet must have had a lot of balls to do that but man he was good! One of the highlights

[cjbdrm]

Yeah, that guy is selling the performance on Ebay now.

It's the guy with the Vinnie DVD's who keeps sending me junk mail. He plays trumpet.

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