Can a drum set be too big?
possibly.....
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"Nietzsche is dead." -God
Only when you have to pay for it........eeek $4,000.
I guess that's a bargan compared to paying $2,500 for 1 Rogers Snare Drum
eh, I would still go for the Rogers Snare Drum :)
1978 Rogers Big R era kit
1970s CB-700 Round Lug era
1978 Rogers Dynasonic Snare (x2)
1959 Rogers Classmate Snare
1959 Ludwig/WFL Marching Snare
The money is cheap. It's the future back strains, and lack of time to do anything except tear down, move and set up that is the real issue here. Heck, the rug would take 2 people by itself.
And with the weather we have had in the Northwest for the past 4 months, I wonder where he found enough sunny days to set all the up on the deck.
I once had the honor of talking to Elvin Jones between shows at the Village Vanguard in NYC. This would have been in about 1977 when drum sets were starting to look more and more huge like exercise equipment rather than drums. I asked Elvin why he didn't play a huge set figuring that surely Gretsch could hook him up with any wish list he could possibly imagine....his response in his totally gracious and modest way was to smile and say..." Man, I can't play one drum, why would I want all those drums?"
It's musicality that matters most... all else is simply GEAR
Glen
It can never be to big!! I have 40 plus in my set up but it never leaves the room!! when I gig it is on a smaller 4 piece jazz kit and that is only once or twice a year!!
But as for getting big sets outside it takes time and preparation to pull it off!! when I have done it (Twice) took an hour and a half for it to come down stairs, two hours to set it up, 15 minutes to shoot pictures, one and half to get it back in the house!! then about two weeks to get it set up around a 40 hr a week job!! All i can say is that it is a Blast setting it up Outside!!
Man, once you have to make tiers with your toms, you've obviously gone too far...
1965 Ludwig Hollywood
1970 Ludwig Jazzette
I love my Tiers!! I have them everywhere and the possibilities are endless!!
I shed my tiers.
"Nietzsche is dead." -God
I once had the honor of talking to Elvin Jones between shows at the Village Vanguard in NYC. This would have been in about 1977 when drum sets were starting to look more and more huge like exercise equipment rather than drums. I asked Elvin why he didn't play a huge set figuring that surely Gretsch could hook him up with any wish list he could possibly imagine....his response in his totally gracious and modest way was to smile and say..." Man, I can't play one drum, why would I want all those drums?"It's musicality that matters most... all else is simply GEARGlen
Kiss Mate thats the Bullseye right there
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