Thanks to Pringles® Summer Jam for keeping our cross country road trip lively and for partnering with me to tell this story.
have long been staples of life on the road for my wife and I.
Way before we added tinier versions of ourselves to our itineraries, we two lovebirds spent many a day riding the TGV in France, eating croque monsieur sandwiches, finding the stubby single serve canisters of Pringles® positively adorable, and listening to old Dylan records. Yeah, we were those people. Still are, I guess, but now there are two additional suitcases to load in and out of every place we visit and a whole lotta stuffed animals to remember not to leave on trains and in hotel rooms. We also need a couple more cans of Pringles®, in alternate flavors too, because the oldest loves BBQ and I go low sodium nowadays, and we tend to spin more Red Yarn Deep Woods Revival than Blonde on Blonde.
The homespun nature of the way my family likes to travel is accentuated perfectly by a pair of drumsticks and a couple of emptied (or on-their-way-to-being-emptied) Pringles® cans. On our epic 3-week cross country road trip from which I write this, my girls have been drumming along with the outstanding new Good Old War album Broken Into Better Shape, the kindie classic, Grammy Award winning adventure record Can You Canoe? by The Okee Dokee Brothers, some Brandi Carlile, and a whole lot more. I love hearing their freelanced fills and inherited lack of musical talent come from the backseat while we cut across the country in our overstuffed Toyota Sienna.
But drumming on Pringles® cans isn’t the exclusive domain of children. A couple weeks ago, I was in Milwaukee for a music and racing adventure with a handful of writers when a spontaneous Pringles® Summer Jam broke out with me and my pal Rick Farquet of Rick on the Rocks. Things got a little out of hand in an ‘Animal from The Muppets’ kind of way, and we both cracked up at how ridiculously bad I am at keeping any sort of time on the snack can kit we made out of five Pringles® cans in a room at the Iron Horse Hotel.
You can get in on the Pringles® Summer Jam fun too. Just grab a can or two of Pringles®, some drumsticks (or maybe a couple of pencils like I was using), and rock out to your favorite tunes or make up something totally original. Maybe some free jazz percussion? Why not! Then share your musical Pringles® can mayhem on social media with the hashtag for a chance to win a VIP experience to a Live Nation concert in the U.S. for yourself and a friend. Pick up a before 11:59pm ET on 7/31/15 for entry into the sweepstakes. Need some inspiration? Check out my girls playing along with “Fly Away” by Good Old War, me and Rick on the Rocks making something up on the fly, or watch the Pringles® Percussion Prodigies.
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