Pickup Truck Bed as a Conference Table

Topics: music, dreams

2023-01-28

My dreams during the night, and especially dawntime, were as clear as the air between my smudged window and El Parque de los Enamorados. The last one featured Loyal as not a drum instructor but a *meta-drum instructor*. What is a *meta-drum instructor*, you ask? Well! A *meta-drum instructor* collects information about potential students and, according to that information, assigns a *non-meta-drum instructor* to said student.

In the dream, I was the potential student.

A group of us were sitting around the bed of a pickup truck. This pickup truck bed served as a conference table and the expansive out-of-doors was the conference room. The would-be *non-meta-drum instructor* sat to my right, partially occluded from my murderous grasp by another individual - one with no defined face. Loyal was opposite me.

The topic of conversation was *drum fills*. I was to be assigned (possibly) to the *non-meta-drum instructor* after Loyal was content that he could teach me the sort of drum fills that I fancied. So Loyal began to ask me which drummers performed fills that I fancied. I pondered and then came up with Christian Vander and Dave Kerman. About the former, Loyal commented that he was a complicated choice, or something along those lines. His thoughts on Kerman are lost to the morning as the dream slowly drifts into oblivion.

Lastly, I named Bill Bruford, that Loyal misunderstood as *Tupford* or something similar. Of course, such an error makes no sense since Loyal and the poundings of Herr Bruford are, or were during our years together in the so-called sacred 90s, intimately intertwined.

Information was transformed and then transmitted to the *non-meta-drum instructor* through a type of *light pipe*. We all know why *light pipe* came up in the dream, so I don't have to elaborate. The *non-meta-drum instructor* nodded.

Thinking about it now, I should have named Daniel Denis. Were I to take lessons on *drum fills*, he would be the prototype of my lessons. No other plays the way he does.

tzifur (Martenblog home)

jenju (Thurk.Org home)

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