PINCHER CREEK, Alta. - An RCMP officer was driving down a forest access road in rural Alberta when he spotted something unusual among the trees — a drum set.
"That's not something you see every day," Const. Doug Sokoloski said in an interview Friday.
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The Mountie got out of his patrol car and asked who owned the drums. A group of friends at Dutch Creek campground last Saturday apprehensively fessed up. They thought they'd done something wrong.
But Sokoloski surprised them.
"I said, 'Do you mind if I play?' and the guy said, 'Sure,' so I just hopped on and drummed out a couple of beats there. And then it just evolved that the guitar player came over and we had a little four or five minute jam session."
It might sound unusual to see a Mountie playing drums in the woods, but it wasn't strange for Sokoloski.
The 17-year veteran of the force says he is a guitarist who used to rock bars in Saskatchewan in the '80s with a band called "Shy Boy." Occasionally, he picked up the drum sticks.
"Music was part of my life back then and we evolved from being a basement-garage style band into a pretty decent, class A bar band in Western Canada," he recalled.
"It was good fun for six or seven years."
Sokoloski says the jam session in the woods was just another day at work.
Drumming Mountie says impromptu jam with campers just another day at work - Winnipeg Free Press
"That's not something you see every day," Const. Doug Sokoloski said in an interview Friday.
On the web
Watch the rockin' Mountie on YouTube.
The Mountie got out of his patrol car and asked who owned the drums. A group of friends at Dutch Creek campground last Saturday apprehensively fessed up. They thought they'd done something wrong.
But Sokoloski surprised them.
"I said, 'Do you mind if I play?' and the guy said, 'Sure,' so I just hopped on and drummed out a couple of beats there. And then it just evolved that the guitar player came over and we had a little four or five minute jam session."
It might sound unusual to see a Mountie playing drums in the woods, but it wasn't strange for Sokoloski.
The 17-year veteran of the force says he is a guitarist who used to rock bars in Saskatchewan in the '80s with a band called "Shy Boy." Occasionally, he picked up the drum sticks.
"Music was part of my life back then and we evolved from being a basement-garage style band into a pretty decent, class A bar band in Western Canada," he recalled.
"It was good fun for six or seven years."
Sokoloski says the jam session in the woods was just another day at work.
Drumming Mountie says impromptu jam with campers just another day at work - Winnipeg Free Press