Drum It With Brummet

  Sound Resources BC Live offers lots of information but check out these directories ie this one below for festivals: Info @:  https://bclive.ca/directories/festivals Canada Council for the Arts aims to offer support for creative & diverse arts (including literary) through grants, services, contests/prizes, & more. Info @:  https://canadacouncil.ca ~~~     Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

    Sound Quotes Sharing inspirational, informative,  amusing quotes from people in the music industry.  Want to submit a quote with our audience?  Find our  Submission Guidelines & Contact Information   HERE " The drive to create,  perform and reproduce music  is common to all mankind.  A drive so basic  that when a man cannot find an instrument to suit him,  he creates his own. " ~ Joseph Howard ~ ~~~     Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

This next recommended video is a performance featuring Sting and Stevie Wonder performing an interesting medley of  Higher Ground  and  Roxanne .  Stevie and Sting are well known for surrounding themselves with exceptional musicians, and this performance only confirms this.  https://youtu.be/QsaWoSq-OBo?si=vZdfXdDkm7u9DTyX Sadly, we are not able to see much of the rhythm section, except for the flying, blurry sticks in the background. It's disappointing only in that the percussionists are exceptional and we would have loved seeing them in action. However, in this case listening is enough...  ~~~     Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

  Answering Your Q's Have a question that you'd like Dave to respond to?  Feel free to send it our way - The ABOUT page shares our guidelines and contact info.  Q: Donavan asked:  " Over the years that you've been in the music industry have you witnessed many changes?"  I came into playing drums in a rock and roll cover band in the mid 1980’s.  It was the time when you could see a band at almost every bar, pub or restaurant in town on any given night – or day!  Cigarette smoke filled as they were, they were places to enjoy live music of all genres and types.  I witnessed a definite dive in the industry in the early 90’s when tobacco was restricted in public places.  It seemed if customers couldn’t smoke while having a beer and enjoying some live music they stayed home more often.  The bar and club music scene withered, somewhat, due to the poor profit margin of the owners.  The paying rate for the musicians went down and so, unfort...

  Our Latest Book Release: h https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DYVVZHS6 Down The Road   (Memoir) A passion project honoring the Brummet & Rotar families by sharing a collection of memories written by family members, spanning 4 generations.    Opening with Dave's grandmother, Maria, who bravely travelled alone from a remote Romanian village to meet & marry a man she didn't know. It continues with the life-story of her eldest son Tony Brummet, a Canadian politician.  Continuing the saga, her second son Frank shares his memories starting with tales of growing up in the Okanagan Valley, where he later raised his children - including Dave. Dave closes the book with an emotional look at how this memoir impacted him, that he would have never known about their lives in this way with out their written tales that they left behind.   Get your copy today @:  https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DYVVZHS6  

    Sound Quotes Sharing inspirational, informative,  amusing quotes from people in the music industry.  Want to submit a quote with our audience?  Find our  Submission Guidelines & Contact Information   HERE "  Music rises from the human heart.  When the emotions are touched,  they are expressed in sounds,  and when the sounds take definite forms,  we have music. "  ~ Chinese Classic ~ ~~~     Find our Books:   on Amazon Subscribe:   Brummet Media​ YouTube Channel​  ​ ~~~

  https://youtu.be/Urh0AmE0yGw?si=CZW2h10oq5T4xCWi This performance by Glass Beams was recorded live at the Bitterzoet in Amsterdam in 2024.  We are enthralled by the vibrant, energetic performances by these three very talented musicians. Australian multi-instrumentalist Rajan Silva is the bass player and leader of the band, while the other two members go curiously unnamed. The drummer is very classy, simplifying as required utilizing a small but effective hybrid drum kit. The guitar player tastefully uses multiple effects pedals to round out the sound. The fact that they all wear gold bejewelled glass masks adds a theatrical mystique that draws  the audience in to better focus on the music.  There are no lyrics and they don't talk to the audience... but somehow in doing this they require that one listens all the more.  It is a blend of tribal, funk, rock, middle Eastern, trance that takes listeners on a different musical journey;  hypnotizing & infec...