My guess is, the folks at DW are no longer Steve's "close friends"!

That didn't do anything to boost the DW brand, if that was the point of this video. The Camco's were much warmer and simply sounded like drums should. I'm not sure what the DWs sounded like, but they weren't pleasant to my ear.

The DW's added a "ing" to everything.

I can't say that one set sounded better than the other. They didn't sound the same to me, just different, and not in a bad way. Each set is different. Why? Because wood doesn't stay stagnant over time. Those old Camco shells have had time to age over decades. The same thing happens with acoustic guitars, mandolins, etc. The wood ages and the tone usually warms up. Not as much on solidbody electrics, for obvious reasons. I have a Guild F-30 acoustic from around 1983 that has warmed up considerably over the decades. I'm sure drumshells are capable of doing the same thing.

I'm positive that my DW drums, made in 2001 have warmed up over the years.

What happens is the wood looses the pulp over time. This gives it great acoustic values.

Logs that have been underwater since the days of logging old trees using rivers and lakes to move them are being retrieved solely for the acoustic values and sold to music companies for tens of thousands of dollars after drying because they no longer have pulp.

DW did a series year ago called Timeless Timber and the drums were constructed of very old logs dredged up from Lake Erie, I think. The DW marketing machine had a field day with these drums, and as might be expected, they sounded great and were very pricey.

John Good at DW is a total wood maven. He's obsessed with wood and its properties, and he's always working to produce drums with exotic and beautiful timbers. He travels all over the world obtaining wood and I'm sure, he knows more about wood and drums than any human being I know.