It's useful being a 'veteran' - all those years in the wilderness sending messages to my clan on the other side of the swamps comes in handy, because not everyone can take the middle riff from Muse's
Hysteria and subliminally plant "these guys are good - book them again" into people's minds.....
Anyway - tales from the old days......
I started off back when your basic jobbing drummer had no cash for drums, and basically scrounged what he could find to play - the number of cheap crappy kits I've known is a book in itself.
My first kit was a Japanese
Pearl Export knock-off copy, which was probably made in that most durable of all woods, plywood. To my then untutored ears, it sounded ok, but then I was young and knew no better. What WAS nice though, was the cymbals and snare that came with the kit. It has a set of
Meinl headliner hats (OK but not that great now), a Tosco thin crash (Stamped
Sabian, and better than any of the others I've ever found) and a Tosco ride that's still in regular use. The snare was a Premier 2000, 14*5.5, chromed aluminum. Real nice, and very collectable now - they regularly go for around $300 on cl and ebay. Mine has a few flakes of chrome missing, but still sounds great.
So now I'm still in the land of the impoverished drummer, as my income has been met and exceeded by such things as wife, kids, mortgage, etc, so all upgrades need to be planned, costed, and done properly. The next things I need to get are some new heads for the toms and a double tom stand, so that when called for, I can express myself on a full 8, 10, 12, 13, 16 rollaround.
That'll do for now - gotta go back and do some work! Seez y'all later!
so I guess we must not sucjk that bad because people keep joining
well nice to have you here man get the 
pics up dude. i wanna see em. have fun
Re: Yet another new member...... :)
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