Sidedrum list command & History
Here is a list from JJ:
...and don't forget to buy this man a pint!
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Druma interviews the father of the Sidedrum list, Saint JJ Hayden
Druma: JJ, how did you get involved with starting the list?
JJ: I worked at a not-for-profit library support membership organization, the South Eastern Library Network (SOLINET) from 1987 to 1998 and in 1990 I began the process of making SOLINET Internet active. In 1993 I was part of a group formed to help our library members to connect with and learn about the Internet. One of the things I setup was a listserv system and the first list was SIDEDRUM. I was a subscriber to the piper's list and posted a few messages about SIDEDRUM and it was off and slowly growing. As the business plan for the Internet group became more focused on the bottom line, I moved SIDEDRUM from a BSD UNIX computer to a Mac LC in my office. The poor little Mac couldn't quite keep up so I had to find a more perminate and reliable supplier. Random Communications was a local ISP that had taken on our local service component and I talked them into hosting the list. They sold out to Comstar and that's how the list ended up there.
Druma: How have you found the
response to be regarding the list?
JJ: From the beginning, the list has been well supported by
US and Canadian drummers and within a couple of years the Aussies and NZers too.
What has heartened me is the recent participation of drummers from the 'old sod'
as well as Europeans and South Africans.
Druma: What kind of time does
taking care of the list take up?
JJ: On average I estimate that I
spend a half hour per day going through the messages and performing subscriber
management such as adding and deleting addresses and debugging address issues. I
try to let the subscribers control the message traffic on the list and with few
exceptions it works out.
Druma: What is your favourite
part of belonging to the group?
JJ: In addition to the opinions of
some of the world class drummers on the list, I find that I have a much better
understanding of the people that I meet at the local games I attend. If
you are competing, except for the beer tent, you rarely get to really
communicate with your fellow drummers and the list has given me real insight
into the people, not just the extravert-drummer.
Druma: Tell us about your
musical background and some band affiliations?
JJ: As for my percussive background, my first instructor, a
band director, didn't much care for drummers so he required me to take piano
lessons for three years before he would teach me drums. He was hoping that
I would get over drumming and take up something useful, like the trumpet,
trombone, or tuba. It didn't work, but I did learn to read music, and more
importantly note pitch and time values before I begin to focus on rhythms.
In college I decided to major in computer science rather than music. My
first wife was a trumpet major in music education and for 16 years, I taught the
percussionists and she taught the wind players in elementary, junior and high
schools in south Mississippi. In 1975 we went to the Drum Corps
International competition in Philadelphia. That exposure changed my idea
of marching and drumming profoundly. In 1984, after remarrying and moving
to Indianapolis, I became involved with the Indianapolis Pipe Band (Not to be
confused with the Indianapolis 500 pipers from the racetrack). In 1987 I
played for a short time with the Atlanta Pipe band and then for six years with
the Grandfather Mountain Highlanders. As I began my Ph.D. studies I had to
limit my travel commitments, so I joined the John Mohr Mackintosh Pipes and
Drums of Atlanta Georgia where I'm the DS now.
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