POP-A-LOOZA: Beat It!

Every Friday, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares a post from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. This week's shared post is the tale of my ongoing obsession with drumming on stuff--and drumming badly--and my current attempt to curtail this incessant urge before someone murders me to death.



I've told a few stories here and there about my ongoing wish to participate in making the music I love, and my utter inability to do so. Chief among these is "I've Got The Music In Me (And That's Where It's Going To Stay)," my chronicle of trying and failing to play a friggin' instrument. I've also written a short piece about my guitars, and a recent short story about the pop music industry, "Home Of The Hits." Speaking of drummers, there was that time back in 2003 when I asked Ringo Starr a question at a press conference, and this blog is loaded with reminiscences of the music that's captured my attention over the course of my first six decades on your charming little planet. For some overviews of those musical memories, check out My 1960s, My 1970s, and "Imagining/Remembering The Music That Played," my attempt to recreate lists of what would have been my All-Time Hot 100 songs if someone asked me (again and again) from 1976 through 1982, when I was 16 to 22 years old.

But now, we surrender to the rhythm! Or we resist surrendering to the rhythm. Or we screw up the rhythm so thoroughly our friends tell us to just beat it. It's "To Beat Or Not To Beat," this week's Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.



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