In my experience, (about 25 years worth) all drummers are nuts. There's always something about them that's not quite wired up right. Even the quiet ones.
I was in a band years ago with this drummer called Dave who was the nicest, most polite, well spoken gentleman you could ever meet. He didn't smoke or do any drugs and only ever drank beer in halves. At the time I remember thinking what a change this made from the usual lunatic type of drummer until I found out he went throwing himself off railway bridges attached to a piece of bungee rope. During the interval at one gig, I'd just popped outside to get a breath of fresh air when suddenly, I heard a voice above me. He'd only climbed up the outside of the pub, spiderman style, and was somewhere near the roof. Nutter!
Every drummer I meet now, I ask the same question. "Go on then, what's different about you?"
Playing with Slack Babbath in Hartlepool once, we had a support band called Epic who had this very quiet, shy girl playing drums for them. I asked the question and she couldn't think what it was about her that wasn't quite normal until I asked her what her drinking habits were. "Well" she said, "I don't really drink much but when I do, I like to drink vodka." "OK" says I "When was the last time you had a drink of vodka?" She replied "Oh that's easy, on the bus on the way here of course!"
