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Thank you very much guys. Its been a tough couple of weeks. The first day back at the kit will be Frost rehearsals. Nothing like straight in the deep end! I hope you enjoy today and the album launch. Best Wishes and see you at the shows
CB

Thank you guys. Delighted to of finished in the top five, a lovely end to the year with getting the front cover of Rhythm magazine next month . Happy Christmas

Thank you guys

Rob, it's for 2015' I've been out with SW most of the year, Frost have been inactive. not sure why PT is mentioned, gav is out with Crimson

Thank you guys. There's other categories for MP..

Hello guys and girls.
By some freak of nature/change in the weather, I've been nominated as 2015 best prog drummer of the year in Rhythm magazine. I don't normally go in for 'best' etc but it's a huge honour to be even thought about in the same breath as the greats. I pretty much know I won't win but if you'd take literally 5 seconds to tick my name on this link and pass it on/share to anyone that will listen i'd genuinely be extremely greatful, it would be nice to make a dent in the usual suspects winning it year after year. Thank you so much. See you soon
Blunders

http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/who-is-the-best-prog-drummer-of-2015-630518

to all you guys for the great turn out last night, it made it all very worthwhile. We all couldn't believe how rammed the venue was (there's another story)

I'm sure, t'others will be along to say "thank you" but just wanted to say thank you personally, its been a ridiculous year for me this year with all sorts of things going on and a mega amount of traveling and you guys topped off my year last night, I hope all you drummer types enjoyed it, we've been rehearsing hard and it was nice to have some fun with the music with Nath on my end (fnar puns expected)

Until the next time.....

Merry christmas and a positively alcoholic new year

Blunders xx

Good morning all,

Me and the wonderful Alex Hutchings have been working on a little duo recently in our spare time. We wrote a load of stuff in a couple of days and then flew out to Japan and filmed it for Roland and Boss, the idea to show ideas and technology. on the live shows we are doing soon, I'm playing bass, Al on drums into loopstations etc etc and building tracks from there. I've used a few different kits and I'm changing them on a pad under the hi-hat

Here are two of the tracks, I hope you enjoy them, we had so much fun doing this even though it was very very late by the time we stopped filming  

Best Wishes
Craig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCxkreW2 ... ature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB06f7Hi ... ure=relmfu

Thank you. I was sent a few drumless tracks to use on clinics. I edited PS to fit in line with the times that Roland Japan wanted, Thanks for looking

Dear Crag,

Hi Crag, why have you not yet been invited to touch Jem's keyboard? From my past previous watchings of gigs, many Frost people touch the keyboard to produce what I can only describe as a fluting effect in the song Milliontonnes.

When can we expect you to touch Jem's flute?

Many sincerities,
RIch

The "i" on your keyboard needs sorting out before I can ever speak to you again

Dear Craig

I believe the Yakuza have a policy of cutting off a finger for any member who makes a mistake. As an educational exercise, do you think should be applied to guitarists, too?

Yrs

Owen

I think it should happen to all people contemplating guitar...

Dear Craig,

Drum kit made out of Lego or drum kit made from Meccano? Pros and cons please

the older I get I noticed that lego seems to get smaller so the tonal qualities of a 4 knob brick are not what the once used to be. Meccano on the other hand still has the amazing overtones that I remember as a child so in my mind only a fool would use a lego drum kit

Dear Craig,

Obviously, as a drummer, your drumsticks will rarely leave your side. I was therefore wondering what other household tasks you would perform using these wonderful tools, and do you use a specific kind of stick for a certain job?

From Rob.
Aged 21 and a half.

of course, I recently stuck 567 together and managed to clear berol's drains from number 47 from the comfort of my own back garden

I also managed to clad the whole of the front of my house with some vater 7as

Dear Crag,

Hi Crag, why have you not yet been invited to touch Jem's keyboard? From my past previous watchings of gigs, many Frost people touch the keyboard to produce what I can only describe as a fluting effect in the song Milliontonnes.

When can we expect you to touch Jem's flute?

Many sincerities,
RIch

I sincerely don't want to go anywhere near that mans equipment...

Hey Guys, I hope you are well

looking back on me saying yes to this I'm starting to question my sanity, but...

In August, with the directors of Roland UK, I'll be cycling from John O'Groats to lands end in 10 days, its an average of nearly 100 miles a day. The next 4 months training are going to be brutal but the causes are amazing, Children in need and music for all.

I've put my body through some pretty mad things over the years but nothing like this. I know times are very hard for all but even if its just a couple of quid, or please forward to your own social network sites then i'd be so very gratefulI. I hope I can count on your support, I'll be blogging progress very soon. If I get 5,000 people donating a £1 then that would be amazing. The link is on the page below, please leave a message, I'll make sure I respond to you all personally

http://threemenonabike.org/

I hope you can help
Best Wishes
Craig

I refer back to my sat morning tweet re Hampshire league....