tkitna: I'm sorry to hear you've joined the inactive list. Once people do that, they tend to stay there. As I've said before, a drum set takes up space and a drum set also makes a lot of noise. So, I live in a small apartment and I have neighbors (no space and neighbors to easily disturb). Even if I did play again, what would I play along to? I would have to be able to play to late fifties and early sixties music in order to be happy as a drummer. I'd love to play along to Steely Dan but you have to be really skilled to pull off some of those beats. Think Steve Gadd! Now, I could never play like him no matter how much I practiced. I'd have to take lessons or re-educate myself. And the truth is, I am considered to be "an elderly man" by most people I meet. Being a drummer again is a fantasy; it's like wanting to be young again and also to go back into a time machine that takes me to the few decades when I was young!