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#98 Steve Adler - G-n-R It's no secret to my friends....I love the drums and drummers!  To me, the drums make the song.  About 6 months ago I came across a YouTube channel called "watchmojo.com" and listened to their top 10 list of drummers, top 10 female drummers and top 10 male drummers.  When I came across the Rolling Stone's top 100 drummers I was intrigued, to say the least.   https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-drummers-of-all-time-20160331 Over the weekend I painstakingly went through the list one by one, listened to the drummers that I could find on YouTube, researched their biographies, looked them up on Wikipedia, checked out photos on Google Images, etc.  Basically, i disappeared for two days.  There are some drummers I had never heard of or had passed away before I was born.  But the men and women that I had the pleasure of listening to impressed me.   I also disagreed with their l...

My friend and co-worker, Kaylee, suggested that I try this outlet to talk about my feelings and opinions on my love of music, so here we go... The movie "Grease" was my introduction to music in movies and I thought it was awesome!  Then I started high school and everyone seemed to know the music that played on the radio...and I didn't.  So, I asked my mom for a radio to put in my bedroom.  Instead, I was given a record player, which I thought was really cool!  I didn't have any friends that had a record player in their bedrooms.   I listened to my mom's albums - Barbara Streisand, Neil Diamond, Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver, The Beatles, etc.  Certainly not the music that played on the radio when I was 13.  Around that time, my step-dad took a music appreciation class and started listening to and dissecting the music of Bach, Mozart, and Rachmaninoff - and while he was at work, I listened too.  The first albumn that I bought...