Stuart Highland Pipe Band Gr II Loon Mountain 2008

We placed third as a band and won the drumming.

1973 Alex Duthart/Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia drum salute

at the 1973 World Pipe Band Championships

Steven Whirter plays Alex Duthart drum salute

Alex Duthart: backsticking and stick clicking

Alex Duthart/British Caledonian Airways Pipe Band: Drum Salute

Alex Duthart: on pipe-band drumming drags

Dang, he's good!

Billy Gladstone

Get his book at Amazon! One of the best snare drummers ever!

Rick Beckham rudimental clip #24

Rick Beckham, my drumline's instructor way back when at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Rick Beckham snare solo 2007 DCA

Not my favorite of Rick's solos, but still phenomenal!

one of the best drummers in the world...

Alex Duthart, unfortunately now deceased.

old college pic

This is USM's snare line in 1987, I think. Snare drummers left to right are:

Joe Sullivan, Carroll Hardin (me), Derrick Cole, Ricky Hamilton, Jay Kerrick, Robbie Johnson, Walter Walker