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[count_skippy]

Well alrighty there, kiddies. I'm back from Ohio and PASIC.

PASIC rocked my socks off and I got a bunch of free crap in addition to the stuff I needed to buy and the stuff I bought because I wanted to :) (AKA, the infamous "impulse buy").


I went to a ton of clinics and met a ton of great drummers. Here's a nice list of who I saw in clinic, who I got to meet, and who I got to autograph my super old Zildjian hat:
Saw:
-Thom Hannum and Jeff Queen
-Virgil Donati
-John Blackwell
-Stefon Harris and Blackout
-Bernard Purdie
-Steve Smith
-Ganesh Kumar
-Clayton Cameron
-Akira Jimbo w/ Shuichi Hidano
-Babatunde Ojatunji Tribute Band
-Jason Bittner
-OSU Percussion Ensemble
-Stanton Moore
-Terreon Gully
-Phantom Regiment percussion section
-Steve Gadd
-Buddy Rich Tribute concert

Met:
-Virgil Donati
-Steffon Harris
-Bernard Purdie
-Steve Smith
-Ganesh Kumar
-Clayton Cameron
-Akira Jimbo
-Jason Bittner
-Ray Luzier
-Tommy Igoe
-Terreon Gully (actually chatted with him through-out the week)
-Billy Ward
-Thomas Lang
-Emil Richards
-Terry Gibbs
-Ed Shoughnessy

Autographs:
-Virgil Donati
-Jason Bittner
-Billy Ward
-Terreon Gully
-Ed Shoughnessy
-Stefon Harris
-Bernard Purdie
-Thomas Lang
-Clayton Cameron
-Tommy Igoe
-Steve Smith
-Terry Gibbs
-Emil Richards
-Akira Jimbo

The whole trip was a majorly cool experience (and a new one since it was me and 2 other kids from school up in Ohio with no parental barriers...nothing bad was done though).

Woo man...I'm happy to be home.