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LA-area vegan/activist, Andy Mars, "demonstrates" a delicious new vegan cheese (called "daiya") on a whole wheat pizza at Z Pizza in Woodland Hills, CA....

A couple friends and I recently "intercepted" this little kitty, who was brought into a local LA shelter in a shoebox, on the brink of death. (She had been trapped underneath a house without her mother or littermates for at...

Many of us "in the know" in the animal advocacy community have been disappointed by Al Gore's blatant side-stepping of the science regarding animal agriculture and the resulting environmental catastrophes. So it's nice to...

...that they are alive and well and living large at Animal Acres near Los Angeles. These curious girls were especially interested in my video camera!...

Here's a spontaneous, improvised solo excerpt (blemishes and all) that focuses on the "left 11" - the left-third of my drum kit. It features the timbales, which have always been my favorite Latin Percussion instrument. ...

Trying to hold too ambitious of a pace at a Marathon can definitely cost you. Of course, you don't always know if the pace is too ambitious - or what the price will be - until you try! Turns out that perpetual Charley Horse...

Here's a quick tour of the Monsters of Rock Cruise salad bar... for those discerning culinary headbangers! For a vegan like me - this is a godsend... along with my daily Superfoods Smoothie that I made in my cabin. Add plenty...

Here's a short drum solo excerpt from the Lita Ford show in Wilkes-Barre, PA last week. Our bassist, Marty O'Brien, happened to grab the tail end of it on his iPhone and e-mailed it to me. Thought I would share a little...

Here are the first couple minutes of a drum solo from a Lita Ford concert in Sydney, Australia at The Factory Theater - 5-25-13...

Just a quick, random video taken through my hotel room window in Norrköping. Crazy how light the sky remains there even late at night this time of year. (On tour with Lita Ford - Summer 2013) ...

Here's a quick excerpt from my DVD, The Zen of Drumming. This groove is called The Octopus, and it's a one-bar pattern that utilizes 22 sound sources. There's also a full version of it that explains the groove from the ground...

By special request, here's the complete 4:00 drum solo from a recent Lita Ford show at the Mohegan Sun in CT. ...

Throwin' it down with my main man, Arejay Hale, on our recent Halestorm/Lita Ford/Dorothy tour. My "little brother from another mother" was extremely generous throughout the entire tour, both with his sharing a little stage...

Here's a typical solo from the Lita Ford set on the Halestorm/Lita Ford/Dorothy tour, April 2016. As usual, I would basically free-form it every night, but generally fall into a groove of interchanging or "mixing and...

This is "A Day In Luoyang,” one of several “mini-doc” videos from my recent solo drumming tour of China, that my tour manager/drum tech (American name, Rambo - no BS!) put together along the way. He would shoot and edit the...

Continuing on with our series here, this is "A Day in Zhengzhou,” one of several “mini-doc” videos from my recent solo drumming tour of China, that my tour manager/drum tech (American name, Rambo - no BS!) put together along...

Here’s yet another from our series: this is "A Day in Jiyuan,” one of several “mini-doc” videos from my recent solo drumming tour of China, that my tour manager/drum tech (American name, Rambo - no BS!) put together along the...

Here’s a multi-foot pedal demonstration I did on a recent solo drumming tour of China, where my feet are playing four different rhythms, on four different sound sources, simultaneously, while my hands do some basic...

Song by Squirrels...

Heavy Rock Instrumental...

22 clips from the last 22 days of my 22nd year of life. ...

Memories from my 23rd year of life. ...

A strict canon in the key of C minor. © 2019 Sacred Cheeseburger Music ASCAP...

A music visualization of an orchestral sketch with the working title "Gladiola Reborn". The title is an anagram for the names "Igor", "Arnold", and "Bela". © 2019 Sacred Cheeseburger Music ASCAP...

This is a piece that I composed for a presentation that I gave at the Berklee College of Music in 2019 on the subject of creativity and composing. ©2019 Sacred Cheeseburger Music...