Drumbo

Trout Mask Replica, the better to discipline his group, the Magic Band, to his baffling time signatures and enigmatic directives; the drummer John "Drumbo" French, described the atmosphere preparing for the album as "cult-like" and told of Beefheart attacking him with a sharpened broomstick, and then throwing him down some stairs after he had failed to rise sufficiently to the command to "play a strawberry" on the drums.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

I would have thought the potential readership for her autobiography would have been as specialised as that for the book about Captain Beefheart by John "Drumbo" French.

Word Magazine - Comments 2010

John "Drumbo" French has assembled some of the Beefheart alumni to take us on an acid laced trip back in time.

Blogger News Network 2008

“A band of non-musicians who are painting artists” -- the Captain himself plus Zoot Horn Rollo, Rockette Morton, Winged Eel Fingerling, Drumbo and Ed Marimba playing such instruments as glass finger guitar, steel appendage guitar, simran horn and musette.

Avant-garde icon Captain Beefheart passes away Click Track 2010

The culture minister is a member of the Board of Governers at Drumbo and Carr Primary School in county Antrim.

Archive 2008-02-01 Johnny Guitar 2008

The culture minister is a member of the Board of Governers at Drumbo and Carr Primary School in county Antrim.

Save Ulster from Creationism Johnny Guitar 2008

In August that year I met Lalage again for the first time since I had seen her off to school from the station at Drumbo.

Lalage's Lovers George A. Birmingham 1907

Drumbo, a town which contains our nearest railway station and which is our chief centre for local shopping, I had not spoken to the Archdeacon for more than three months.

Lalage's Lovers George A. Birmingham 1907

Oxford Rifles (with the Drumbo Infantry Company attached), the Caledonia

Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 1884

In southwestern Ontario, a six-vehicle collision closed Highway 401 eastbound at Drumbo, but no serious injuries were reported.

CBC | Top Stories News 2012