Honour your favourite drummer day

As anyone who's played Guitar Hero: World Tour knows, drumming is hard. Like, real hard.  Too hard for me - I'm still stuck on easy level. My left arm is so uncoordinated I don't know how it's still attached to my body. It's a wonder it hasn't wandered off by itself and started a commune somewhere, with little mini slave hands feeding it grapes.

As an aside, what did you do yesterday for Random Act of Kindness Day? I rescued a scared cat out of a tree. Yeah, yeah, I know. That's just the kind of guy I am. 'Betsy' was only just over head height, but she was meowing a lot. And I really only got her down because that constant wail was annoying me. But still, it counts. Right?

Anyway, now that that very special day is over - and in a bid to bring two seemingly unrelated opening paragraphs together - I've decided that today is Honour an Under-Appreciated Drummer Day. It's not really. I just made that up. But if we take it seriously enough it might one day become real. Hey, a boy can dream.

I've decided this because, thanks to a few stints in the hot seat on World Tour, I've found myself admiring drummers a little more at concerts. I used to stare open-jawed at the lead guitarist. Or the singer. I always ignore the bassist, and that won't change unless D'Arcy Wretzky rejoins the Smashing Pumpkins.

But that Welsh dude who was playing with Nine Inch Nails earlier this year? Awesome. Tool's Danny Carey at Lollapalooza? Incredible. Check out this flying Travis Barker solo from a recent Blink 182 show. And how about Seseme Street's Animal going nuts? He's not bad too.

But my choice for today's under-appreciated drummer dude isn't any of that lot. I've chosen Pat Wilson, the man hitting the skins for possible Big Day Out headliners Weezer. Here's another aside: The Herald Sun recently reported Muse are going to be headlining. Who will it be? I can't stand all this tension. My hair is starting to fall out.

Back to Wilson. It's not so much his drumming skills that I admire. It's his hilarious, goofy and consistently amusing appearances in Weezer's awesome collection of music videos. Dude is a crack-up.

Here he is standing up trying to play the drums in Dope Nose. See him playing hacky sack in Say It Ain't So. Check out his chicken dance in El Scorcho. And I love how he shakes his hips and runs off the wall in the dog-filled, one-take Spike Jonze treatment for Undone - The Sweater Song. By the way, nice bowl cut Rivers.

To be honest, Wilson reminds me a little of The Office's Dwight Schrute. And we all know how awesome he is. Perhaps they're kindred spirits and Wilson hides weapons in all his different drum components, just in case of a bear attack. Maybe, just maybe, I'm right.

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