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unusual facts about The Drum


The Drum, Edinburgh

The Drum was the seat of the Lords Somerville from the later Middle Ages, who built a 16th-century house on the estate.


Osmond Borradaile

He also behind the camera for the films of Sabu, including Elephant Boy and The Drum and The Four Feathers which won the Oscar for Best Colour Cinematography.

The Friendly Traveler

Being a self-taught DJ caught the attention of Kevvy Kev, the host of KZSU's hip-hop show, The Drum.


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30/30-150

Though current Stone Sour drummer Roy Mayorga is shown on the drumset in the "30/30-150" music video, he did not actually record the drum tracks for the song, this was done by current Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin.

Adio Kerida

While Santería sings praise to Elegua, the "one who opens doors," Danayda plays the drum and professes her commitment to Judaism.

Akan Drum

The drum is made from two species of wood that are native to sub-Saharan Africa, Baphia and Cordia africana.

Anne Palles

She had also been at the Witches' Sabbath on Hesnæs with the other accused women; Hans Stang from Hasselø played the drum while Abigael Nielsdatter, by Stan called ”Biegell” danced in the middle; Abigael was also able to travel on a staff to Trondhjem in Norway.

Armenian Youth Federation

Chapters were organizing programs such as the drum and bugle corps, theater troupes and charity service work like Boston's "Siamanto Santa".

Beat the Drum

Premiering at the 2003 Mill Valley Film Festival, Beat The Drum won 30 international film festival awards, including the prestigious Montreal Zenith D'Or and the Monaco International Film Festival Angel Award, the festival's top honor.

Benny Benjamin

Among the Motown songs Benjamin performed the drum tracks for are early hits such as "Money (That's What I Want)" by Barrett Strong and "Do You Love Me" by The Contours; as well as later hits such as "Get Ready" by The Temptations, "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" by Stevie Wonder, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Gladys Knight & the Pips and "Going To A Go-Go" by The Miracles.

Bob Chilcott

His cantata for choir and percussion The Making of the Drum has been performed by the BBC Singers, the New Zealand Youth Choir, the Chamber Choir of Europe, and the Taipei Chamber Singers.

Bougarabou

The drum is originally from the Jola (Jóola) people in the south of Senegal, the Casamance and the Gambia, the Jóola Buluf, the Jóola Fogny and the Jóola Kalunai.

Bruce Gary

Born in Burbank, California, the young Gary was a bundle of energy and for that reason his parents allowed him to set up the drum kit that his cousin had offered him after getting bored with it.

Christ Embassy

The Christ Embassy and Pastor Chris Oyakhilome were featured on The Times in South Africa, Twitaholic, Politics Web a South African website, and The Drum South African website.

Cliff Butler

The session musicians included blind pianist Benny Holton, who regularly accompanied Butler, as well as Chicago stalwarts Leon Washington on tenor sax and Red Saunders on the drum stool.

DJ Patife

He had contact with the drum and bass scene through friend DJ Marky while working in a record store.

Drum Major General

The Drum Major General was a royal appointment in the British Army used from the mid-17th century and into the 18th century.

Drumkit from Hell

This software was used to create the full drum tracks in Meshuggah's album Catch Thirtythree (whose drummer, Tomas Haake, was part of Drumkit from Hell's development team and also provided the drum sounds himself), as well as in Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient.

Everything You See

The Loch Ness concert, entitled Beat the Drum after the chorus to the song "Pride of the Summer", was released on DVD and CD as Year of the Flood in 2008.

Gekokujō Xstasy

The stage setting imitated an operating room, and an ECG Monitor or an anatomical model of the human body, etc. were arranged on the stage, and the synthesizer and the drum set were laid on operating tables.

Gil Sharone

Gil also recorded the drum tracks on the third Dillinger Escape Plan record Ire Works, and joined the band during all of their tour dates in 2008 (he played the European tour in early 2008 both with Dillinger and also as support with Stolen Babies).

Glyn Styler

Recordings include Live at the Mermaid Lounge (1997), recorded at the New Orleans music club of the same name (which has since shut down), and The Desperate Ones, a 1998 EP on which he sings a duet cover of Jacques Brel's song The Desperate Ones with Lydia Lunch and also includes the drum machine flavored Won’t Stop Loving You and an instrumental version of the title track.

Hugh Sempill, 12th Lord Sempill

His remains were interred in the Drum Aisle in the West Church of that city on 1 December following.

Indiana University Marching Hundred

While not required, the drum majors have historically used a mace for field presentations and choreographed moves to the shows the Hundred puts on.

Jon Briggs

Jon Briggs also provided the narration for the start of the drum and bass song "Blood Sugar" by Pendulum.

Kittenz and Thee Glitz

The album's first single, "Silver Screen Shower Scene" contains a sample of the Ben Liebrand remax of The Flirts single "Passion", and "Harlot" contains an unaccredited sample of the drum pattern from The Human League track, "The Sound of the Crowd".

Königsberger Paukenhund

The tradition dates from the 1866 Battle of Königgrätz, where troops of the Prussian 43rd Infantry Regiment ("Duke Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz") overran the drum wagon of the Austrian 77th Infantry Regiment ("Karl Salvator of Tuscany"), whose dog, a Saint Bernard named "Sultan", had been shot.

Matt Letley

On the picture to the right, he can be seen performing the drum solo, 'The Killer', that has frequently been included in the song "Gerdundula" since he joined the band.

Membranophone

Common in Native American music and the music of Africa, water drums are characterized by a unique sound caused by filling the drum with some amount of water.

Michael Coxhead

The British born company, based in Willingham, Cambridgeshire, was sold off to Akai in 1984, who then went on to develop the ideas of MPC Electronics and make the drum pads available to individuals all over the world.

Mississippi Queen

According to drummer Corky Laing, he had developed some of the lyrics and the drum part prior to his joining the band.

Mothers Talk

The strings at the beginning of the song were culled from a Barry Manilow record, while the drum sample around which "Empire Building" is built was lifted from the Simple Minds song "Today I Died Again".

Movement Systems Drum Computer

Its most famous user was David A. Stewart of Eurythmics, who excelled in the use of this Drum Computer on their 1983 worldwide hit, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)." The machine (MKI) makes an appearance in the video, in a scene in which singer Annie Lennox is seated on top of a table in a meadow, as Dave Stewart types on the Drum Computer's keyboard.

Newman Taylor Baker

His solo drumset project, Singin' Drums, premiered at the Williamsburgh Music Center in 1995 and grew with projects Virginia Peanuts Meets Buffalo Chips with saxophonist Joe Ford (The Internet Cafe 1996) and Sound of the Drum/Language of the Heart with dancer/choreographer Mickey Davidson (The Internet Cafe/JVC Jazz Festival 1997).

NHS the Musical

NHS The Musical was premiered in May 2006 at The Drum Theatre, Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

Paner

:"Paner could not protect my suhag, Paner would be abandoned and Jhanjhar clan would not survive in Paner. Dholi could not beat the drum, Mali did not offer flower to Tejaji and Gurjars did not cooperate with Tejaji, all these clans would not survive in Paner."

People Like a Happy Ending

In fact all the drum tracks on this album are actually edits of the drum takes from The Weightless EP, often cut into individual drum hits and sequenced to fit the new songs.

Reede-drum

The drum itself did not gain wide recognition until the Kyrgyzstan traditional music resurgence in the 1950s in which it became known through the work of The Clancy Brothers and others.

Ruby Vroom

This was in keeping with Tchad Blake's spirit of maverick experimentation, which included sticking a binaural head-shaped microphone in front of Yuval Gabay's drumkit, sticking a mic in a car muffler, called "the Bone" and sticking that in the drum booth as well, and having Doughty improvise wild, yelling ad-libs on "Casiotone Nation", singing into a cheap amplification system called an Ahuja that Blake bought in India.

Scott Gottlieb

In the fall of 2004, Bleed the Dream began work on their debut full-length album Built by Blood, and Gottlieb was healthy enough to record the drum tracks for every song.

Scott Hoffman

Since 2003, Scott has been the drum tech for Steve Gadd (James Taylor and Paul Simon).

Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song

The text was adapted from Whitman's Leaves of Grass (the Drum-Taps section), and Swayne (2011) describes it as the last of Schuman's pieces as, "a self-styled occasional progressive".

SOS Allstars

The group performed a purely percussive track written for the event by Roger Taylor with SOS in Morse code being the prime motif, and finishing with the drum solo from Queen's We Will Rock You to open the Live Earth show in London.

Thank God It's Christmas

It appears on the Christmas compilation LP The Edge Of Christmas in its full 12" version with the drum intro. It also appears on the US-only compilation boxed-set "The Queen Collection", which consisted of a re-release of the LPs "Classic Queen" & "Queen's Greatest Hits" along with a bonus CD called "Queen Talks" that included this song, along with a 1989 interview with the band.

The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Before arriving at Lud, the ka-tet hear the drum beat from the song Velcro Fly, by ZZ Top, playing from the city, although Eddie at first can't remember where it is he has heard these drums before.

The Marcus Graham Project

The name "The Drum" specifically comes from the Robert Downey Sr. film Putney Swope, which referred to the drum as their method of fast communication.

The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack

"The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" is the second single for the Drum's Not Dead LP by Liars.

Whitney Fitzsimmons

During Fitzsimmons' ten years with the ABC she has held many positions ranging from senior producer of Lateline, anchor of Lateline Business, The World, Afternoon Live, The Drum, The Midday Report - summer edition, the current affairs program AustraliaWide and finance presenter on the Midday Report alongside Ros Childs, and reported nationally on ABC News on general news and business stories.

Xavier Caféïne

He played most of the instruments on his album but received helped from Michel Langevin on the drum for a few songs.