In 1980 I started a new band.... "Buckskin". Almost immediately I began doing this: when I broke a stick I'd autograph it and give it to a random person in the crowd. I used to break a lot of sticks, maybe one every other gig, so over the years I signed many.

I wonder, often, if any of those signed sticks still exist in someone's keepsake drawer. Probably not, probably all burned as kindling long ago.

Which reminds me... I almost never break a stick these days... I can't even recall the last time I broke a drumstick. I'm not sure why that is.