Small world, @uberwaltz; it is in Vancouver that I live! Give me a buzz, we’ll meet for some Becks. Maybe folkfreak will have us over to hear his system (VTL, Magico) in Northwest Portland.
There are two drummers I knew in L.A. who had already moved to Portland before I did. One is Jose Medeles, who has been a member of The Breeders and Kim Deal’s solo band. He opened a good drum shop in Portland (Revival Drum Shop) about ten years ago (not too far from Music Millennium, a pretty good record store), and leads a local band doing Tom Waits songs (tribute bands are huge up here. I had a woman take me on a date to see a Zeppelin band, not knowing how much I "don’t care" for them. I played along ;-) ---Eric.