Who am I? Chapter 1

I started playing drums about six years ago. I have always had a good feel for music and decided to take guitar playing when I was about 14 years of age, I am 24 now. I started playing and after a short while my friends and the rest of school thought I was really hot. Guitar quickly got boring because lack of skill with the instrument and I decided to let go of it after 3 years (well actually I lost my Fender Std American Stratocaster when I was about 17 but I'm not going into details cause that is another story all together). With the little bit of money I had left I bought myself a Pearl Forum Kit with Zildjian Avedis cymbals around the time I lost the guitar. I started playing the same way I did with the guitar meaning that I learned from books and listening to music. I played basic stuff good and I was a really hard hitter, much to hard if I look back at how I played. I was playing with 2B sticks which are the thickest and heaviest that I could find, which reminds me though Sabian interests me much more these days Zildjian can take the beating. After a year or so I looked for a teacher, this was not my typical behavior because I always like to do things on my own. My first teacher's was Peter Webber. Peter was already in his 60's but he had allot of jazz experience and he was respected by the people working in the local music shop. After my first lesson I felt that I would never come back again. What scared me was the thought of reading. When you start reading it looked like another form of math. Myself not being the match type hated the first 3 weeks of it but right after that everything just started making sense. Peter also showed me the basics of good technique and we did some jazz independence over the the next few months. Peter told me that a band that was originally based in Pretoria had moved here and they needed a drummer. I got the details from him and went to the audition. Thank God it they played Rock/Metal. Something that I didn't mention is that I was a big Metal listener at that stage.