Ignorance To Basic-Biology Is Not An Option

I recalled today a genuine gift given to me by strong women over the years...an implicitly male understanding of what WOMEN experience...by LISTENING WITHOUT SHARP-JUDGMENTS.

Again, I'm a man. But I had some help understanding what women experience from Diane Ackerman's book A Natural History of The Senses.

Ad-automatons need NOT post comments!

;) mattergy

The Ubiquitous "My-Boyfriend's-Back-Beat"

You know it, and you don't even know it. ;)

There was a phase in my music-career when it seemed as if the whole drumming-world was playing an endless reprise of the Chiffons song: "My Boyfriend's Back".

Hence, whenever one of MY former drummers lapsed into this beat (DOOM--rat-tat, DOOM--rat-tat) and so on, I would loathingly refer to it as "The My-Boyfriend's-Back-Beat", meaning that the obvious no-no of repeatedly hitting the snare-drum twice on the back-beat had been violated, and was getting dangerously tiresome (capable of sending the WHOLE audience out for a smoke [even the NON-smokers], also a big NO-NO)

I was only the bass-player...nobody of any great importance...but I felt SURE this simplistic ditty-beat was the death of many a fellow-band in those days...

The cause of NOT getting on the audience's nerves seemed greater than the drummer's inability to break this bad habit.

So I got to be something of a nemesis to THOSE bands.

I'm proud to have never played with a drummer who COULDN'T break this habit ;)

--mattergy