{"id":973938,"date":"2019-12-09T06:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=923974"},"modified":"2019-12-09T06:27:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T13:27:30","slug":"9-year-old-drummer-rocks-out-to-nirvanas-in-bloom-on-ellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/9-year-old-drummer-rocks-out-to-nirvanas-in-bloom-on-ellen\/","title":{"rendered":"9-Year-Old Drummer Rocks Out to Nirvana\u2019s \u2018In Bloom\u2019 on \u2018Ellen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-09-at-8.23.28-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ellen-degeneres\/\">Ellen Degeneres<\/a> often brings talented kids onto her show to introduce them to a wider audience \u2014 you can thank her for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mason-ramsey\/\">Mason Ramsey\u2019s<\/a> sudden success \u2014 and it\u2019s pretty amazing to see children who can play musical instruments better than most adults.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ellen invited 9-year-old drummer Nandi Bushell from Ipswich, England, onto the show, and asked her why she\u2019s been playing drums since the age of four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Saturdays and Sundays, [my family and I] make pancakes, and I listen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-beatles\/\">The Beatles<\/a>, and I saw the drum kit and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ringo-starr\/\">Ringo Starr<\/a>,\u201d Nandi said. \u201cHe just inspired me to play the drums.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone has been so happy about Nandi\u2019s new hobby; a neighbor angry with the noise forced her to move her drum set from the front of the house to the back. \u201cWhenever I came out from school, or was walking out from my house, he would give me this cranky look,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Nandi performed the drums to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nirvana\/\">Nirvana\u2019s<\/a> \u201cIn Bloom,\u201d rocking out and soloing at the very end before tossing her drumsticks off the stage. And because Ellen can\u2019t let her guests leave without bestowing them a gift, Nandi went home with a brand new bass guitar.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/9-year-old-drummer-nirvana-ellen-923974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Degeneres often brings talented kids onto her show to introduce them to a wider audience \u2014 you can thank her for Mason Ramsey\u2019s sudden success \u2014 and it\u2019s pretty amazing to see children who can play musical instruments better than most adults. On Monday, Ellen invited 9-year-old drummer Nandi Bushell from Ipswich, England, onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:12:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}