Happy birthday to Tristan. I think there are quite a few of us on the Mudcat. My daughter Kitty has never learned to talk, and she never will. But she's got great taste in music.

Drums and such - the best drummers make jokes about drummers, and the best banjo players make jokes about banjo pklayers and so forth. John Kirkpatrick (who cannot be exc elled by any other squeezebox player alive) has a great song with a chorus that goes:

Here's your harp, welcome to heaven, here's your accordion - welcome to hell.

Just so long as we agree the jokes are just jokes? If all the drummers are in hell, the music in heaven would be a drag. A bad drummer can ruin a session, and that means one who plays selfishly without listening to the others (even if technically brilliant. But that is just as true of any musician.