BOOK
From Bonham to Buddha and Back: The Slow Enlightenment of the Hard Rock Drummer
is the new book from Clementine, released February 22, 2023 on Amazon.com.
What does it look like to follow a contemplative path of study and practice while also being very much in the world as a Rock-and-Roll drummer?
In this memoir, I offer my music career as a metaphor for spiritual practice.
Performing live, musicians seek to find that place beneath thought, where the song plays them. Life on the road offers ample opportunity to investigate the ego attachments that perpetuate misery. We have transcendent moments of oneness in a venue crammed with people, and then step off the stage into struggles of self-consciousness, competition, heartache, and loss.
What does a "spiritual" life look like anyway? How does contemplative practice figure in the day-to-day? Each drum beat, each moment, offers lessons of awakening, no matter how gritty the path.
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