He Taught Parents How to Play Drums and Bass So He’d Have Someone To Jam With…

A New Zealander taught both his parents how to play the drums and the bass so he would have people to jam with—and now they have an album out.

Ryan Stokes couldn’t have his friends over to jam during lockdown so he decided to teach his parents how to play instruments.

Inspired by The White Stripes, a two-piece rock band, the 20-year-old guitarist initially taught his 55-year-old mom to play the drums. Two months later, his 60-year-old father picked up an electric bass for the first time.

The family appropriately named their band ‘Mommas Boy’, with Ryan crushing songs as the frontman vocalist, while Andrea Stokes keeps time on drums and Lyndon plucks the bass—all with with a lot of competence.