I turned 61 this last august I have never been a collector I have always played vintage drums for one reason they are the best drums ever made bar none, the junk they pass off today as great drums is appalling.. the same configuration is seen everywhere two toms on a stand to the drummers left now who came up with that .. and now hanging drums yuck I would destroy a set of them if I played them .. nope I like good old Rogers swivo gear and Ludwig gear never owned any other brands I know sling's are great but i have no experience with them ... I am old school for a reason it works and if it ain't broke don't try to fix it...P.S. did I mention I loath double pedals?...... :)
[COLOR="Blue"]We have some similar history and similar thinking about the drums that we like. I just celebrated my 68th birthday. I began playing percussion in fourth grade back in Northwest Indiana. I got my first drum set in 1958. It was a used three piece (no floor tom) mid 50's Gretsch round badge set in two tone Duco Cameo Coral and Charcoal Gray.My first gigging set was ordered from Foster's Music in Hammond, Indiana. It was a Black Diamond Pearl set of Rogers Holiday four pieces with all Swivomatic hardware including the snare mounted on the bass drum. I then traded in my gigging drums every 12 to 18 months for Slingerlands, Flat Jacks, Camco. I usually went back to Slingerland for my comfort zone. That preference stayed with me ever since the mid 1960's. During all of the years I gigged, I never owned more than one drum set at a time. I retired from gigging in 1978 when I began working for a manufacturer of guitars and amps that also manufactured Rogers drums. About six years ago, I knew that I was going to retire relatively soon, and needed a hobby. So, I acquired a vintage mid sixties Slingerlad four piece set. Things just sort of took off from there. I currently have ten vintage drum sets from Slingerland, Rogers, Leedy, and my new found love--Walberg & Auge. I have never liked Ludwig drums. I keep a Club Date set for trade bait. My cymbal preference has always been A. Zildjian. I have enough of them to outfit four or five drum sets. Many of them were bought new in the late fifties through early seventies. I have acquired a few from the forties and fifties in recent years. Did I post something like this back when the thread started a long time ago? Hell if I can remember. I'm too old to want to read through eighteen pages to find out if I did this before or not.[/COLOR]
