Big Drum Thump

Stodgy Ringo, you sir have bored us into retardation with this Q&A. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment?

Boo.

• Dance Program Expands to Include Drumming. The Drumming Club Project helps African immigrants from war-torn countries reconnect with their roots and adapt to life in New York.
• MotoStars: Celebrities + Motorcycles. Any BDT’ers from Pickerington, Ohio? If so, hoof it over to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum. You’ll see bikes owned by Neil Peart, Travis Barker, and Rick Allen.

• Link Logen’s Drumming Marathon. The dude is trying to break the world record by playing 85.5 hours straight. He’s got about a day worth of bashing to go.

An online music store in France is displaying pics, prices, and descriptions of Zildjian’s Pitch Black cymbals. They are essentially coated ZHTs, and it looks like they’ll be heavily marketed to the young, up-and-coming bashers among us. For pics, scroll past our very rough (and possibly inaccurate) translation of the French promo text. If there are any native French speakers out there, let us know in the comments if we blew it bad.

Pitch Black: “Black is black”! Change your vision of cymbals! The Pitch Black series has a formidable and explosive Rock sound that approaches perfection! These cymbals were designed by and for heavy hitters who need a huge sound! Based on the manufacturing process of the 12% bronze formula that is already used in the ZHT series, the Pitch Black line has an additional tin element that reinforces the cymbals’ character. That in particular makes it possible to add weight and width to these cymbals, which gives a profile to the Black Pitch that is perfect for metal heads! These cymbals are guaranteed 100% Rock’n'roll, 100% brilliant, 100% as you love them! Zildjian worked for months to find a process that makes it possible to keep the black coating of your cymbals intact, even after years. Eight models of common Rock sizes are available. Once again, Zildjian is confirmed as being THE mark of innovative cymbals for discriminating musicians.

This is a new video of Barker beating the hell out of the song “Dope Boys” by The Game. Cool enough. But what really got our sticks standing at attention were the cymbals: are those Zildjian’s new Pitch Blacks Travis is bashing? And if so, they sound much better than we had anticipated. Perhaps there will be a professional and a budget line….

Fellow fellows, first drop your eyes to the pic below (linger a good minute or two…we totally understand) and then come back here for this scoop: April Rose Pengilly’s not merely a hot model with rock-father genes (thank you, INXS sax man!). No, Pengilly’s also apparently a drummer. And she plays in high heels. And she’s eighteen.

Like, when did the universe start doing requests?