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DW Buys Slingerland Name
"Btw, when this DW/Slingerland deal crashes and burns, I'll be the first to say, I told you so". What a lovely guy. What else do you hope happens? I...
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
O-Lugs... You have just made a very valid point. I think that's why drummers are either Gretsch lovers or don't care to own them. Notice that I didn't...
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
The Gretsch drums have gotten good reviews.
5 years agoCalling on Slingerland Experts
My suggestion is to wrap the shell to match one of your drum sets, and outfit the shell to be a small floor tom complete with legs.. You might want to...
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
[QUOTE=johnnyringo;DW has done a great job of marketing, the drums look fantastic, but as far as I'm concerned, they don't sound as good as they look....
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
There are some interesting and funny stories about how Buddy Rich would demand new drum sets from the company he was currently endorsing, and then giv...
5 years agoRogers Top Hat Drum Set
Yep. I like the Swivo arms positioned the way I have them with the short end in the mini knobby receivers on the riser's cross bar and the longer end...
5 years agoRogers Top Hat Drum Set
Dave scored a real pretty Top Hat Rogers set. Thanks guys for the nice words. Hey, Dave..... Do you know in what year(s) the drums in your set were...
5 years agoRogers Top Hat Drum Set
I found the Rogers serial number guide that I wanted to find. According to this guide, my Holiday drums--all four of them--date to 1966 in the year wh...
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
I was asked what I don't like about DW drums. I readily admit that my dislike for the brand is purely visceral. It's a gut feeling. Why? In the mid-19...
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
That pretty much sums up my opinion. However, I admire their marketing success. The uninformed person might think that DW is the only brand of drums f...
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
Nope. I'm complimenting them on what they have done with and for Gretsch. I'm also saying that, despite all of their great marketing success, I don't...
5 years agoDW Buys Slingerland Name
Whoa! Hold on a moment. I've been a DW critic for many years. I have never owned any of their drums, and have never wanted to own any of them. I don'...
5 years agoRogers Top Hat Drum Set
Can someone please send me a link to the Rogers serial number/dating sites? I just would like to get a ball park estimate for the serial numbers. UPD...
5 years agoRogers Top Hat Drum Set
That's exactly the setup on the bass drum tom and cymbal "tree". I just need to turn mine around so that the mini knobby adjustment screws face the fr...
5 years ago