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Roach, the drummer for Skye’s revived punk band The Dynamite Chicks is looking over her new baby, a brand new drum kit, being as she could finally afford to upgrade with the success of her band!<\/p>\n

This story is featured in my collection of short stories entitled Short Songs<\/a>, featuring characters from The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright series<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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     She sat down.
\n     She stood up.
\n     She walked around.
\n     She sat down again.
\n     She stood up.
\n     Sitting down and then standing up one more time she walked around her drum set before sitting back down and shifting around her snare.
\n     She had been so used to her old drums that she was still getting used to the new ones. She insisted on double bass drums, but it was throwing off her pedal positions. She moved the snare and started slowly and methodically shifting around the bass drums while also trying to resist the urge to tune her floor toms again.
\n     \u201cLook at this beast!\u201d
\n     Roach had been concentrating so much on her new drum kit that she had not noticed Larry, their sound engineer, coming into the studio.
\n     \u201cGonna insist on bringin\u2019 this whole thing on tour?\u201d asked Larry as he stepped up on the drum riser.
\n     Roach scrunched her face as she looked it over. \u201cNot sure yet. I have to go through a few more rounds a\u2019 playin\u2019 it before I decide.\u201d
\n     \u201cEither way, the roadies will have fun with this one.\u201d
\n     \u201cEh. It\u2019s what we pay \u2018em for, right?\u201d
\n     Larry raised an eyebrow. \u201cI happen to be one a\u2019 those roadies, m\u2019dear!\u201d
\n     Roach shook her head. \u201cYou\u2019ve been goin\u2019 out with Tandasil too long.\u201d
\n     \u201cWhat?\u201d
\n      Roach looked Larry right in the eye and raised her eyebrow.
\n     \u201cOh blast,\u201d said Larry. \u201cAm I doin\u2019 that now?\u201d
\n     Roach waved her hands around. \u201cYou\u2019ve been seduced by the Vulcan!\u201d
\n     \u201cI don\u2019t think Tand has ever heard that nickname yet.\u201d
\n     \u201cReally? That\u2019s what we all call her.\u201d
\n     \u201cIt\u2019ll be our little secret!\u201d
\n     \u201cHey, can you do me a favor? I\u2019m screwin\u2019 around with the pedal positions. Wanna try it out?\u201d
\n     Larry screwed up his face. \u201cYou actually want me to touch your new baby?\u201d
\n     \u201cYou know me. I\u2019m gonna fuck this kit up.\u201d
\n     \u201cOf course!\u201d Larry sat down on the drum stool. He looked around. He tested out the bass drum pedals and then stepped onto the high hat. \u201cI\u2019m just a might bit taller than you love.\u201d
\n     \u201cNot by much.\u201d
\n     \u201cTrue enough.\u201d He picked up the drumsticks and belted out a rhythm while kicking one of the bass drums.
\n     He stopped drumming. \u201cPersonally I\u2019d bring this in a little closer,\u201d he said, gently tapping the top of the left bass drum. \u201cI think the high hat\u2019s fine though. Maybe tilt the snare a bit more.\u201d
\n     \u201cDamn Larry, you ain\u2019t bad. We\u2019re you already a drummer?\u201d
\n     Larry stood up. \u201cI think I\u2019ve played every damn instrument you can think of besides the didgeridoo.\u201d
\n     Larry handed the drumsticks to Roach who sat down at her kit and started shuffling one of the bass drums closer.
\n     \u201cHow come you ain\u2019t in a band?\u201d asked Roach as she tested out the bass drum\u2019s new position. \u201cLike maybe even just a side gig thing that you could do once in a while?\u201d
\n     Larry shrugged. \u201cPersonally I wonder why Tandasil ain\u2019t got her own gig. She\u2019s a better musician than I am.\u201d
\n     \u201cSeriously?\u201d
\n     Larry nodded.
\n     \u201cI ain\u2019t never heard her play nothin\u2019,\u201d said Roach.
\n     \u201cShe\u2019s fuckin\u2019 good. At guitar and bass. You\u2019d be surprised.\u201d
\n     \u201cFuck yeah I would!\u201d
\n     Larry left to tend to other studio duties.
\n     Roach stood up once again and looked over her kit. As she contemplated how to arrange her various floor toms, her thoughts drifted back to her first drum set, a rusty and rugged kit that had been relegated to one corner of a garage. When she was only a pre-teen she spent most of her time at her friend Chelsea\u2019s house, where Chelsea\u2019s rough-looking dad Grizz had set up a music studio in his garage where his biker band would practice.
\n     As a young girl Roach had initially been wary of the tall and rough looking Grizz, with his perpetual five o\u2019clock shadow and his frayed denim and leather clothes. But she quickly learned that he was an amiable and mischievous man, acting more like a teenager than an actual grown up. He had a new drum set which was all his, but there was the smaller drum kit in the corner. Chelsea had warned Roach that his new drums were strictly off limits, but one day when grizz noticed Roach looking over the old drum kit, he admonished her to try it out.
\n      She bashed and tapped away at the set now and then, and eventually Grizz got around to showing her the basics. He had her concentrate on the high hat, the snare, and the bass drum first, getting her used to drum beats and tempos. Later on he taught her fills, and initially confused her with the idea of single stroke rolls, double stroke rolls, and later on paradiddles.
\n      The lessons were sporadic. Grizz would occasionally be drinking and watching television, or he would be hanging out with members of his gang. Oftentimes he would be working on motorcycles and cars, as she learned that was how he made his living.
\n     When he wasn\u2019t helping her with occasional lessons, she would practice, sometimes tapping the drums or just mimicking beats she had heard from one of the many AM radio bands she had been listening to.
\n     She eventually got good enough that Grizz told her to go ahead and practice on his main drum set. Her friend Chelsea was amazed that he let her play his new drums, letting Roach know that there was no way he would ever let her touch them unless he was convinced she had what it took to be a great drummer.
\n     Roach shuddered when she remembered why she spent so much time at Chelsea\u2019s house: so she could get away from her family.
\n     Especially her perpetually drunk and occasionally violent father.
\n     Roach adjusted a few cymbals and stepped back as she reminded herself that she could become obsessed with adjusting her kit, and that she needed to take a break and come back to the set up so she wouldn\u2019t spend too much time futzing over her new baby.
\n     Picking up her backpack, she took the book out of her bag, the one where she stuck the band stickers between the pages so they wouldn\u2019t get bent up before she stuck them to various parts of her kit. It was an old Calvin Trillin book she had found in a little library. She used the book to store all of the band stickers she collected, usually gifts from many of the bands that would come through Butt Fork studios, the place where her band The Dynamite Chicks would practice and record. She was there so often she felt as if she was an employee of the place, a feeling that really came through when she occasionally helped out bands who were there for recording sessions. She was surprised how often it happened, drummers not showing up for their band\u2019s studio time. Though when she thought about it she should not have been that surprised, given how chaotic punk and metal bands usually were.
\n     She cussed between her teeth when she discovered that her Die Spitz sticker was stuck to one of the pages.
\n      Looking at her drumhead, someone suggested she get it painted with the words \u2018The Dynamite Chicks\u2019. She was not too keen on the idea, since she occasionally drummed for Hat Confusion, and would probably end up in other side gigs.
\n     She had considered getting the official logo on it, the one of the punk riding a large stick of dynamite like a horse while lighting its fuse.
\n     It was not too long ago that Roach had to constantly adjust her set up, because her bands always ended up playing at different spaces. Occasionally they would play a stage that was wide enough for her to set up her drums as she liked, but other times she was crammed into a corner of a room, or she had to make do with a ridiculously small amount of space, or a laughably small drum riser, if there was even a drum riser at all.
\n     She remembered how much fun she had playing warehouse shows, where she could set up her drum kit as she pleased, but then she also had the problem of flying punks running into her kit, high-speed moshers who had flown off course who would knock down her cymbals or fly into her toms. Once, a particular rabid punk flew right into her, knocking down all of her cymbals and crashing on top of her snare after flying over her bass drum. She had quickly clambered to her feet and was about to beat down the errant punk, but he was already being wrestled out by club security when she finally got herself upright.
\n     The Dynamite Chicks were doing well enough that they were playing bigger clubs, and occasionally large concert halls, where the hazard of catapulting punks was much less of a problem. Not that the occasional wild stage diver careening across the stage might still knock over a cymbal or two now and then.
\n     She heard someone walk into the room.
\n     Somehow she knew it was Tandasil.
\n     \u201cI\u2019ve been workin\u2019 here too long,\u201d said Roach as she turned around. \u201cI know what your footsteps sound like.\u201d
\n     Tandasil stopped in place and raised an eyebrow. \u201cI\u2019d think your hearing wouldn\u2019t be good enough to be so cat-like.\u201d
\n     \u201cLike I said, I\u2019ve been workin\u2019 here too long.\u201d smiled Roach.
\n     Tandasil walked around the drum riser. \u201cI heard drumming, but I knew it wasn\u2019t you.\u201d
\n     \u201cLarry was checking out my setup.\u201d
\n     Tandasil stopped in place again, looking surprised for a moment. \u201cI keep forgetting that Larry\u2019s actually a pretty decent drummer.\u201d
\n     \u201cMaybe you guys should form a band,\u201d said Roach as she walked up to her set.
\n     \u201cNo thanks. I already have way too much to do without getting in on an act.\u201d
\n     Roach tilted her head and looked right at Tandasil. \u201cI\u2019ve also heard rumors about how good a guitarist you are.\u201d
\n     \u201cDon\u2019t pay any attention to such gossip.\u201d Tandasil looked over Roach\u2019s new kit as if she were studying it. \u201cThe roadies will have fun with this one.\u201d
\n     \u201cI almost feel sorry for them.\u201d
\n     Tandasil raised her trademark eyebrow. \u201cYou do know we pay them, right?\u201d
\n     \u201cI know. But I don\u2019t want to be that guy.\u201d
\n     \u201cWhat guy?\u201d
\n     \u201cThe \u2018that\u2019s what you get paid for\u2019 guy.\u201d
\n     Tandasil rolled her eyes. \u201cSometimes you have to with that crew.\u201d Tandasil squinted at Roach\u2019s setup, as if she were concentrating on something specific. \u201cBy the way, The Bong Rips are about to record, and their drummer hasn\u2019t shown up.\u201d
\n     \u201cNo shit? Damn, that\u2019s like the third band in the last couple a\u2019 months with a missing drummer.\u201d
\n     \u201cCan you fill in for a few songs?\u201d
\n     Roach knitted her brow. \u201cShit. I guess? I can\u2019t remember any of their songs.\u201d
\n     Tandasil waved a hand at her. \u201cDon\u2019t worry. You\u2019ll hit it so quick once you hear their stuff. You\u2019re a much better drummer than their trommler. You\u2019ll probably make them sound too good.\u201d
\n     \u201cOkay. I\u2019ll go find Larry.\u201d
\n     Tandasil left as Roach put away her drumsticks. She stepped back, walking backwards from the drum riser, and looked over her new kit.
\n     \u201cFuckin\u2019 a,\u201d she said to herself. \u201cThis is a fan-fucking-tastic drum set!\u201d<\/p>\n


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