Earthshaking Music

Area Served

About Earthshaking Music

Earthshaking Music, various school bands and took drum lessons at the nearest music store, which was about 12 miles from home. Every Saturday morning, my mom would drop me off at the store and I would take my lesson. After, I got to hang around the store and mingle with the music store dudes and look at all the new, cool gear and sweet used stuff that came through the store. I remember vividly the Ludwig “Tivoli” acrylic drum set that came in, with the embedded lights in the drum shells. Outrageously expensive, that drum set stayed in the store’s front window for over a year and served as an amazing draw to bring folks into the store. As my own playing moved more into hand and “ethnic” percussion, it became harder and harder to find anything for sale, beyond the most mundane, in the local stores. Eventually, I grew frustrated with my monthly rounds to the shops and started reaching out to importers and distributors, often buying 5 of a thing, and selling what I didn’t need to friends and students. This could be considered “the light bulb” moment, as it supported my drum addiction and was the genesis of Earthshaking Percussion, a mail-order only retailer of drums and stuff, which in a year or two, evolved into Earthshaking Music.