Dudes. I think this is a video of Carter Beauford telling a bunch of absurdly cool stories the world has never heard before. Or I'm dead and this is an imaginary afterlife experience. Probably the latter.

For the uninitiated (lol amirite), Carter is the co-founder and drummer of Dave Matthews Band. Since he is so much better at drums than Michael Jordan was at basketball, scientists are still breeding livestock with unicorns and Zapdos the Pokémon to try and come up with any semblance of terminology beyond "GOAT" that could begin to describe how important this dude's work is to the history of music itself, but their experiments are futile. For now, it can only be heard, nay, felt in the many many legend'ry recordings Carter has gifted us over the numerous and gnarly decades of his career. Dig hither and take to heart Carter's sublime reflections on his life as an artist and student of the drums.

Also: Thank you. I feel like sometimes my channel gets to be a barbershop in the village of Carter fandom, and I feel so grateful to every music fan who comes here and makes it so. Whether this is your first or millionth time here, the existence of this video was your doing. Holy heckin' thank you.

I hope I get the chance to tell the world one day how gracious an organization Dave Matthews Band is. To Jim, Greg, Ian, Coran, Jeff, Jerry, Ann, Rodrigo, Stefan, Poli, Liz, Rene, Tim, Tucker, Buddy, Eric, Erik, Fenton, Bill, Nick, Anthony, Henry, Dave, and Carter: thank you each for the music you bring to the world every night on the road, and thanks for somehow accommodating the making of this video in the midst of that.

Speaking of that merry gang of legends, you can vote once every day 'till January 10 for DMB's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame right here, and I will personally accept 100% of the credit if they win: https://www.google.com/search?q=Rock+...

One last thanks, and it's a maximum thanks, to TJ Martinez, who flew all over the continent with me this year in pursuit of the gnarly footages. No one in the world is better at converting my unmitigated "here's the shot I want" babble into vision dudely executed. Dig him anywhere you can type the handle ThatSkinnyTJKid.

Right, so, who wants to win some insane Carter Beauford memorabilia from over the years? Rules:

1.) 5 commenters on this video will win a mystery piece. Some are magazines from the 90's, some are promotional photos/ads, and some are knick knacks from the stage. Some are signed by Carter Dudeford, some are not. All are awesome. For eligibility, subscribe to this here channel and include the tag #dude in your comment on this video.

2.) If you want the sweet gnarly banner you see in the outro, tell us your aspirations on the drums and include the tag #gnarlybanner. Carter and I don't care whether you're aspiring to rock stardom or you're just trying to get a song together for your after school talent show. Just tell us what you're aspiring to so we can send you the gnarly banner for inspirado.

3.) If you want the original Under the Table and Drumming VHS box set y'see in this video, tell us what you'd name the sequel and include the tag #drumtomorrow.

4.) For the first time in dude history, there will also be 3 winners over on Instagram. Follow @harrymiree and include the tag #dude in your comment on today's [January 2] post for eligibility. (Ooh, one lucky 'grammer gets a big gnarly banner too.)

5.) Twitter gets a winner as well! Follow @harrymiree and include #dude in your comment on the one post you find there.

6.) All winners get picked and notified January 27, 2020.

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This entire conversation was generously translated in subtitle form to Portuguese by Diego Mancini and Felipe Menhem. Vai Brasil my dudes.

Thanks for watching. Extra thanks to my PatreoDudes who get an extra 5 minutes of unreleased footage from this interview over at   / harrymiree  

¡See y'on the road! Tour dates at www.harrymiree.com