[sammorrowdrums]

Mobile voice call compression sucks so much that about a decade ago, in order to play a live drum audition remotely, I once had to find a space with a landline and printer that would also let me play loudly drums to do it.

As a student I had none of those things.

In the end I concocted a successful scheme where I would buy a series of phone extension cables, convince my university bar to allow me use their landline for a while, book a drum practice room and wire the cables in a long chain carefully to it, using duct tape to keep the cables safe and above door frames etc.

Then I had to join the call, and when it was sight reading time run to the library to print out the sheet music, run back down and play it down the phone.

It was intense, but I got the gig and flew off and sailed around the Baltic gigging for a few months in the orchestra/show band which was awesome.

I really wish that a mobile phone would have worked, it would have saved me a huge amount of stress.