that s all right, mama, just any way you do that s all right that s all right the very first rock n roll record i bought was by elvis presley. my playing the drums was sort of an organic process. i began by beating on my school books with my fingers and with pencils. i would beat out little cadences. i used to drive my classmates crazy doing that. i think one day somebody said to me, i think my friend, richard, he said, why don t you just start playing the drums? i managed to cobble together a drum kit from old drums that i found stashed in the back of the band hall at high school. then one day my mom said, come on, get in the car. and she drove me to a town about an hour and a half away called sulfur springs, texas, to mccay music company. to my surprise, she bought me a set of red sparkle drums that i still have today. so i have to give my parents a lot of credit. they bought me that drum kit even though they couldn t really afford it.