Monthly Archives: January 2017

Star Wars collection reissue

So I get a call from Marvel in New York. They’re releasing a collection of Star Wars newspaper comic strips I wrote in 1979, under the name Russ Helm. May the farce be with you!

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God bless Butch Trucks. Watching Butch and Jaimoe drum together was a symbol

God bless Butch Trucks. Watching Butch and Jaimoe drum together in the Allman Brothers was a symbol of all the good things about playing music in the South.

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drumming as antidepressant

http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/study-suggests-group-drumming-better-prozac

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Little kids and big dogs from St. Petersburg, Russia

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Vintage Neon Art on Montana Avenue, Santa Monica

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Syncopation as an antidote to depression

Syncopation as an antidote to depression Modern society has been programmed to march on the downbeat. Stay in step, do what you’re told. This is reinforced with march music. Marching is flatfooted. It’s on the downbeat. There is no syncopation. … Continue reading

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Tuesday Night is Skype Drumming Night

7pm Pacific time Drumming live on Skype @ Russell Buddy Helm

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