Wall Street Occupiers Fear Drummers Will Be Their Undoing

The Atlantic Wire ^ | 10/25/2011 | Adam Martin

[tje]

The most pervasive sound at Zuccotti Park, and one of the neighbors' biggest complaints, is that of a group of drummers pounding the skins, and organizers now fear their inability to rein in the constant drumming will kill what support they've gotten and move the park's owners to ask police to clear them out. The occupation reached a compromise at its General Assembly on Monday night, with the drummers agreeing to limit their playing to four hours a day (from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.), but it's not the first time the occupiers have reached an agreement on limiting the drumming, and the fear now is that neighbors, already skeptical of the camp's ability to regulate itself, will decide at Tuesday night's meeting of Community Board 1 that they can't put up with it any longer.

[tje]

Entertaining read, especially the parts about internal personality clashes..

[circlecity]

And the beat goes on.......

[Red Badger]

Little Drummer Boy

Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum
A new born King to see, pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring, pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

So to honor Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
When we come.

Little Baby, pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too, pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring, pa rum pum pum pum
That’s fit to give the King, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Shall I play for you, pa rum pum pum pum,
On my drum?

Mary nodded, pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for Him, pa rum pum pum pum
I played my best for Him, pa rum pum pum pum,
rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum,

Then He smiled at me, pa rum pum pum pum
Me and my drum.

[Truth29]

The anarchists want the conflict, want the violence. If you accommodate them, they will push and push until there is violence.

[tje]

I believe that’s exactly what someone wants.. Van Jones?

[cripplecreek]

I think its time to send in the hippie drill.

[Blennos]

From the article: “Drumming is the heartbeat of this movement.” — what does this tell us about the “movement?”

[heiss]

let’s have some fun and file EPA complaint that the noise affects some endangered species

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It’s a good thing they’re not anywhere near my house, because if they were I would go berserk and kill the bastards. Percussion is the most disgusting element of what passes for modern “music,” and I have zero tolerance for it.

[SMARTY]

So childish

[djrakowski]

“Percussion is the most disgusting element of what passes for modern “music,” and I have zero tolerance for it.”

I couldn’t agree more!

[massgopguy]

Slingerland = Drum
Encore Plastic = Bucket

[MrB]

"You've got quite an infestation here. Look, a drum circle in your back yard."

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I hate that song! Always have!

[Bainbridge]

Ummmmmmm, That they are savages?

[JPG]

One single razor blade meeting a drum-skin can end the drumming very quickly.

[Scotswife]

there are one or two yr. old articles from NYC about some type of bird found nesting in the city. Hawks maybe?
Please Dear God! Please tell me those birds are trying to nest near the park!

[Red Badger]

Maybe we should play it at 110 dB over the park...................

[Kenton]

Watching this thing devolve right in front of our eyes is fascinating.

[Kratos]

“let’s have some fun and file EPA complaint that the noise affects some endangered species”

Yeah.. and the endangered species being the producers. A snail darter has more rights than the human producer.

[whatexit]

Not a bad idea - there are raptors nesting down around there...

[ctdonath2]

And the anarchists make another step toward rediscovering civilization: implementing regulatory noise ordinances.

Funny how fast people who hate “the system” recreate it when on their own.

[Bitsy]

The occupation reached a compromise at its General Assembly on Monday night, with the drummers agreeing to limit their playing to four hours a day

Well, what’s a person to do when they have nothing to do just sit around all day and get paid? Maybe there will be a gig somewhere in their future if they ever decide to look for a job.

[juliej]

Yes, such as the endangered pigeons who hopefully are dropping some big bombs on this disgusting mob.

[cuban leaf]

Yep, nothin’ like a good woodstock inspired drum circle with drug enhanced “interpretive dancers”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMxiBevp4Xg

[dfwgator]

Bang on the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren

I don’t want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day
I don’t want to play
I just want to bang on the drum all day

Ever since I was a tiny boy
I don’t want no candy
I don’t need toy
I took a stick and an old coffee can
I bang on that thing ‘til I got
Blisters on my hand
Because...

When I get older they think I’m a fool
The teacher told me I should stay after school
She caught me pounding on the desk with my hands
But my licks were so hot
I made the teacher want to dance
And that’s why...

Listen to this
Every day when I get home from work
I feel so frustrated
the boss is a jerk
And I get my sticks and go out to the shed
And i pound on that drum like it was the boss’s head
Because..

I CAN BANG ON THAT DRUM
HEY, YOU WANT TO A BANG AT IT?
i CAN DO THIS ALL DAY

[ErnBatavia]

Children....

[SamiGirl]

I hate that song too.

[GOPJ]

Drum racket makes the useful idiots feel like ‘something is happening’. It's a technique so stupid only a liberal would fall for it...

[chris37]

The fact that they sound like parrot zombies is about all I need to hear in order to know what these guys are all about.

[spokeshave]

let’s have some fun and file EPA complaint that the noise affects some endangered species

Yeah....

white gun loving bible clingers.

[spokeshave]

let’s have some fun and file EPA complaint that the noise affects some endangered species

Yeah....

white gun loving bible clingers.

[dead]

She has also created strife and divisions within the POC caucus, calling many members who are not ‘on her side’ “Uncle Tom”, “the 1%”, “Barbie” “not Palestinian enough” “Wall Street politicians” “not black enough” “sell-outs”, etc. People have been documenting her disruptions, and her campaign of misinformation, and instigations. She also has a documented history online of defamatory, divisive and disruptive behavior within the LGBT (esp. transgender) communities. Her disruptions have made it hard to have constructive conversations and productive resolutions to conflicts in a variety of forums in the past several days.

I love watching an awesome kook in full flower!

Their effect on liberals in particular is the best. It frustrates them no end that "this person is nature's creation and her differentness should be celebrated, not stifled, for in her own way she cuts through the trappings of our so-called 'normal' cookie-cutter way of looking at things and makes us question our own assumptions and biases..." blah blah blah.

But deep down, they really want to smash her head in with a wine bottle. Eventually deep down wins.

[stonehouse01]

“I hate that song! Always have!”

Me too - I have always cringed at that song - since childhood!!

On another note - a pertinent song for the so called movement should be Todd Rundgren’s lyrics as follows:

“I don’t want to work, I just want to bang on the drum all day ...” sums it up perfectly.

[stonehouse01]

Ha - you beat me to it!!

[tje]

I have to say I especially enjoyed that part..

Funny, I’d read somewhere else that someone had knifed all the drums - cause $8k in damage.. Didn’t see that in this article.

[tje]

I have to say I especially enjoyed that part..

Funny, I’d read somewhere else that someone had knifed all the drums - cause $8k in damage.. Didn’t see that in this article.

[listenhillary]

Reg Right. You’re in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f*cking Judean People’s Front.
PFJ Yeah
Judith Splitters.
Francis And the Judean Popular Peoples Front.
PFJ Oh yeah. Splitters.
Loretta And the peoples Front of Judea.
PFJ Splitters.
Reg What?
Loretta The Peoples front of Judea. Splitters.
Reg We’re the Peoples front of Judea.
Loretta Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
Reg Peoples Front.
Francis Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
Reg He’s over there.

[rolling_stone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPvqFkCtAqw

[Oztrich Boy]

The Tamil word for "drummer" is pariah (not many people know that)

[Teacher317]

Vuvuzelas

[lurk]

Interesting. Anarchists who govern themselves via a general assembly.

[TheOldLady]

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[rockrr]

I read a piece last night wherein someone did exactly that - sliced the heads of all the drums in one area. The story went on to say that one of the drummers then “petitioned” the group at large for funds to replace the vandalized stuff and was turned down (he was asking $8000!).

I thought it hilarious for two reasons - 1. that the agitators vandalized each others crap, and 2. that the guy would place such a premium on a bunch of plastic buckets.

[Nebr FAL owner]

If this movements heartbeat is some doofus banging a drum at all hours of the day & night then this movement has more in common with a bad case of the runs than anything else.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Counter attack acousticly . Pass out air horns, vuvuzela’s ,bag pipes deliberately out of tune, game calls for foxes( rabbit in distress squealing to the folks living in the neighborhood along with multimillion candle power search lights then have a coordinated serenade of OWS when they are trying to sleep. If that don’t get the message across fire hoses & tear gas will .