Sunday, October 20, 2013

Gavin Harrison Drum Clinic

Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree held a Drum Clinic at Jim’s Music.  Anyone who has held a pair of sticks and tried to get serious about it has probably seen his YouTube videos.  Hey, I’m gonna fire up some GH videos now as I write this.

I arrived in time to snag a front-row direct-in-front seat.  Great seat for the full effect of the drumming but not so good for a picture.



Gavin requested that only pics during the first two songs and no video at all.

The first song was Porcupine Tree’s Sound of Muzak.  Wow.  Later he played my favorite, 19 Days.  Love the work on the bells at 2:15.

Bad pic of the Bells


His talks were heavy in technical rhythm discussions, far beyond my understanding.  At one point Gavin said, “It’s really simple”.  Yeah, right.