What was your fav drum set when you started practicing and playing drums
And what was your fav old cymbals that you use to have or still have and playing
Please post a photo and please tell us about it .
Thanks
D,Ray
I can't post no photos on here but i can tell you about on what i had when i grew up playing drums years after that ....You first
i hope i made some kind of since out this
I started on a 66 Rogers 20-12-14 with matching snare with a broken K stamp Zildjian and a set of A Zildjian New Beat hats. Got to play with those for two years. Learned a lot.
My first purchase in 1979 was a 1977 Rogers six piece Big R 24-13-14-15-18 with COB Dynasonic, Paiste 2oo2 Cymbals, Hardware and Cases. I paid 950.00. The cymbals are gone, sold, not broken, after owning them for 25 years. The drums today exist as a 24, 13, 16, 18. And, I still own the snare drum+ a few more.
And I purchased a 66 Rogers 20-12-14-16 with matching Powertone in the same color as that first set back in '03 that is a whole lot of fun to play.
I still have 2oo2 Paiste cymbals too. And K Customs.
Well here it go's
i started playing a old black Ludwig set after years went by i started to add more zildjians and toms to my set .i started playing of the age 14 ,i played and i practice with them fore a long time .Until just about 1988 and i had a another old set Ludwig jazz set 4 piece date back in 1965 . my mother paid $399 at a auction one weekend .I was glad i got them i practice with then almost every week .the was sorta like black d cover .had it for a long to time until i just got board and sold them to a friend of my here in Memphis .getting back to the old Ludwig that i used to have it turn out to be a lots of cymbals and drum toms before i knew it i had 48 piece stairing me in the face ,But i sold them in 1988 .man i had the works of drums in my hood ,And that when i quite playing drums in between 87-88-89 when i sold it all ....I just hope i explain my self little bit better then i use to on here .....
I started out drum-life playing on the seat cushions of my parent's vinyl kitchen set. Man, I ripped those seats to shreds practicing. My mother convinced my father to buy me some drums before I destroyed anything else. My first kit was a WMP Kent kit. 12", 16", 22" w/Kent 6-lug snare. One year later I sold them and used the $ to buy my first (used,) Ludwig kit. It was a black wrap, 12, 16, 22, w/Jazzfest snare. Best sounding set of drums anyone could have asked for. Heavy too! I remember me and the bass player lugging that kit around on buses and subways to get to gigs.
We were too young to drive! lol
Wish I still had those Kents and the Luddy's. Great drums each in their own right.
John
I started playing in 1965 at the age of 5 on my Mom's pot's and pan's..When i was about 8 my Grandmother get me a snare drum for Christmas...Do recall what name of maker was...By the time i was 11-{1971} i got a new 4 piece set of MaxTone drums...When i was 14-{1974] i got a used mid 60's Ludwig in W.M.P. with zild cymbals...Set was a 22'',13'' a 14x14 club date floor tom and a wood snare drum that matched the set..The cymbals were 14" H-H,16" and 18" crash,20'' ride...I still have this set today..In 1976 i got my first new set a Ludwig blue and white vista 5 piece 22.12.13.16.14'' matching snare,still have that set also.Also at this time-[76]- i started to get into vintage drums..My next new set was in 1979 another Ludwig that started my Ludwig set colloction from 1979-1982 i got all the Free sets from Ludwig i wanted-{its a long story] i still have all these set's today.Size of drums are from 6" to 20" toms.bass drum 18'' to 28'',snare's 14'' from 3.5'' deep to 12'' deep.Then in 1990 my friends and me open O.C.D.P.when i started to make all kinds of new custom drum set's and snare's for myself...Mikey
I only started playing 5 yrs ago on a buddy's pdp kit and it has Sabian b8s all around I just picked up two older zildjians now I need some hats and I am going to be restoring a old Slingerland kit I bought in a yard sale for $50.
Actually, all of mine have been favorites.
My first drum was a metal Folgers coffee can with a plastic lid. This was in the mid-60s, and my parents had already paid for over a year's worth of private lessons on the organ, and I quit 'cause I wanted to play the drums instead. They didn't think I'd stay with it (and want to play something else later), so that's all they would invest in...
Later, with my own money, I bought a Beverly Snare Drum at Avenue Pawn Shop in Pauline, Ks (just south of Topeka). Didn't come with a case, but the carboard box it came in had a built-in cardboard handle. Great stuff!
In either 1970 or possibly early 1971 I bought my first set -- a 50s Gretsch in WMP (14x20, 9x13, 6.5x14 SD, 19" KZildjian Ride & 13" KZildjian HiHats and later added a new 16x16 Gretsch WMP floor tom & a 10x14 Ludwig WMP Parade drum as another tom).
In late 1971 or probably 1972, I bought a brand-new Ludwig Rock Duo set in Champagne Sparkle (22/22/16/13/12). Got a good deal as I'd moved out of the "garage band" stage of my life and played with a large, BST-Chicago style group that Midwestern Music in Topeka helped to sponsor. Got all new AZildjian cymbals.
Played that set throughout most of the 70s, until it was pretty much destroyed in an accident after a gig out in Tribune, Ks (WAY out in western Ks). Had plenty of gigs lined up and no time to wait on Ludwig (they were 6 mos behind on orders at the time), so bought what Midwest Music in Hays Ks had -- a 1978 Pearl Wood-Fiberglass set (22/16/13/12).
Still have that set, and wouldn't trade it for anything! I don't play it out anymore. I left the music scene in the very late 70s early 80s after a dramatic change in my life (I got saved) and I played my Pearls in church for years (even as I pastored for over 21 years -- I think one of the few church pastors anywhere that played the drums in his church's worship band).
Don't play as much anymore as I'd like. Sit in numerous times as a back-up drummer on an electronic Roland set -- but it ain't quite the same.
I travel some as a solo music/preaching ministry (I still sing, as always), and maybe someday will work my drums into it...
Anyway, got to go to work, so the book is complete... for now!
Bill
In 1971 when I was 12 years old, I saved up $100 and bought my first vintage set (yes it was already vintage in 1971); a very yellowed WMP four piece Getsch set date-stamped 1946 (and the seller threw in the Zildjians!). My God that wood snare was as warm and velvety as Carly Simon's voice, and those thin 14" Zildjian high-hats almost responded just by breathing on them. I loved and cared for that set like it was my first girlfriend, so naturally, it tears me apart to remember selling it for $100 in 1974 to help buy a brand new, 8-piece double-bass Rogers Fullerton swivo set (at least I was smart enough to keep the Zildjians).
I never gigged that Rogers set, and to this day it remains almost pristine sitting in my basement (complete with the original reso heads) amoung six other sets I've accumulated over the years, but none of them hold a place in heart, nor ever will, like that 1946 Gretsch set bought with hard-earned paper route money.
In 1971 when I was 12 years old, I saved up $100 and bought my first vintage set (yes it was already vintage in 1971); a very yellowed WMP four piece Getsch set date-stamped 1946 (and the seller threw in the Zildjians!). My God that wood snare was as warm and velvety as Carly Simon's voice, and those thin 14" Zildjian high-hats almost responded just by breathing on them. I loved and cared for that set like it was my first girlfriend, so naturally, it tears me apart to remember selling it for $100 in 1974 to help buy a brand new, 8-piece double-bass Rogers Fullerton swivo set (at least I was smart enough to keep the Zildjians).I never gigged that Rogers set, and to this day it remains almost pristine sitting in my basement (complete with the original reso heads) amoung six other sets I've accumulated over the years, but none of them hold a place in heart, nor ever will, like that 1946 Gretsch set bought with hard-earned paper route money.
That 4 pc Gretsch set sounds a LOT like the 3 pc set I mentioned above... you don't happen to have any pictures of it, do you? Somewhere I've got a pic or two of me & mine the day I brought it home...
And funny thing, when I bought my Ludwig Rock Duo set, I sold the Gretsch set to my little brother... who later sold it to someone else.
Not one pic yet come on people ... my favorite set was this one and after I had it about a month i added a swingtime set to it I would give my left one to have it back clevelands 1966...
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or maybe this one
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I loved them all
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