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Stand mounted tom
Now to throw a wrench in: Insofar as a "Buck Rogers"-type stand WILL choke a rack tom, a Premier basket-type WILL NOT. Don't ask me why, couldn't tell...
12 years agoLudwig trade
Mr. Kaywood, what we in the Colonies call "lugs" are generally referred to in your neckathewoods as "nut boxes" (or so they were in Birmingham in the...
12 years agoMy new Speedking
Howdy. What's worked best for me is to have the springs set to where the smackhammer is about 2.5 to 3 inches away from the head when my foot's just l...
12 years agoSlingerland
Stone Custom Drums are built using a lot of Slingerland's old machinery.
12 years agoIs Swing Dead?
Check out my buddy Chad Rager's band. Prepare for some blazing chops while you're at it.
12 years agoLead on parts stash... hope this turns out good.
You one lucky boy!!!! Back when Whitey was still alive in the early '80's, he let me nose around in a back corner of the place and I found 3 NOS stil...
12 years agoSpike Jones and the City Slickers fans!
Oh yeah man. Spike was the Frank Zappa of the '40's.
12 years agoLudwig Breakbeats by QuestLove
Man, what's old is new again... Back when I worked at a large midwestern drum shop, guys would come in espousing the virtues of 18" bass drums and th...
12 years agoloud bass amp right next to me
In this kinda situation, it's been my experience that the first thing you hafta do is figure out WHY he's loud enough to be out of balance. My initia...
12 years agoThe Obnoxious Kit Thread
Jeez, youse guys make me feel so lazy! My Sonor S-Class kit has 22, 10, 12, 13, 14x14FT, and 16x16FT. My Sonor 3007 gig-around-town kit has 24, 8, 1...
12 years agoWhy do we hate concert toms?
The answer is easy. Have ya HEARD 'em? :D
12 years agoVentless Slingerland FT sounds choked
-Fold up about 5 paper towels into about a 2" square. - Do that 3 times. - Put one on the floor under each floor tom leg. That's the appalachian en...
12 years agoquality of Slingerland drums
Actually, if it's a Niles drum, only the outer ply is mahogany. I found out the hard way in 1981 when I scored a chrome 24" and wanted to strip it to...
12 years agoJohnny Carson Playing Drums On Tv Show
Ya know, the drummer w/ Welk in that clip is Paul Humphrey. He also cut the drum tracks for "Black Cow" on Steely Dan's "Aja" album. Ol' boy can play.
12 years agoIan paice.
@ one point, he also used a double bass kit with 2 rows of concert toms across the front. I didn't pay much attention to the pic so I didn't notice th...
12 years ago