Man, that is not funny.

I missed the "funny" part of that, evidently. It's a shame for your son's kit and for the older drummers to not know better by now. I hope your son learned his lesson--don't offer your kit for a jam session if you care about it!

My first kit was subject to a couple of jam sessions. I have always been careful to avoid "tom rash" on the bass drum...other drummers don't seem to care, though. Lesson learned!

I guess what struck me as funny is that normally the older drummers are worried about kids playing on their kits, last night was the other way around. We tried to be really cool about them moving everything around, but I had to really bite my tongue when the drum key came out and then one them had to use his own pedal too....guess the dw5000 wasn't quite good enough.

I use an older beat up ludwig kit on a jam nite when I host. My rules are, you can adjust it any way you want, but you have to use the hardware that is there and don't EVER try to retune the drums. You do and you literally get yanked off of the kit. Also, the club requires that the band control its volume, so smaller jazz sticks are provided and encouraged to be used, but if you want to you your own sticks (as long as they are not 2Bs or marching bats! LOL!) you can. As far as dented heads....this is why I use emperors on the jam kit....they rarely get changed out, but thats because I know they will get dented anyway. Also, I have some older Zildjian A's that sound horrible that I don't really care about if they do get damaged.

Moral: use old beat up crap for jams because if you bring a nice kit, the bashers will kill it because they have no respect for other drummers gear. I wonder how those guys would feel if you treated their kit that way?

Good advise - I think I will pull out his Accents from now on for Jam night.

Not a bad idea.....maybe some Sabian B8's or cheaper Paistes or Sabian XSs would be advisable too if he cares about his normal cymbal setup too....

He has some ZBT's that he can take instead of his K's.

He brought K's???!!!????Eye Ball man he's living dangerously! LOL!

Uggg...didn't even think about those being dinged...oh man, I don't even want to go and look in the bag. They are his, he saved his money to get them..I really hope they are not jacked.