Are you not aware that this forum is intended as a SPECIALTY site with complete focus on vintage drums? Even more specifically, the focus is even narrower to hone in on American-made drums with some leeway for English and European drums. If you want a wider range of drum topics, there are forums for that.

I find you can visit fairly infrequently and still catch up pretty quickly. The format is slow and cumbersome and the lack of seamless media embedding is antiquated. I also get put off by the “snark” factor pretty easily. I posted a few times today! We’ll see what happens.

I held back the snarkiness of which I'm quite capable of unleashing. I think that your comments in this section are elitist and deprecating with a side order of snark. Please knock yourself out playing with the "big guys" on the other forums while we luddites slog through the old technology in this quaint little forum.

So do you disagree that the format is out of date? Im starting to get used to your snarkiness! Lol.

Scrwvoff ass hole your 16 year old mentality shows your true character

You most likely think a vintage any thing is a classic kit and don’t even know what the badges of a real drum set are lol

I’m firing off , I have not did this in a while feels great …

Have a great life loser

Put that in your pipe and smoke it it mite be better than what your smoking now lol

Anyways enjoy the site before the vintage spiders shut it down

Whoa! Let's be civil, gentlemen.

I love vintage drums, in general, and I love MY collection of them most of all. every time a drum company has TRIED to change the traditional design, so far, none of those have caught on..

Trixon conical shells

Arbiter (both AutoTune and AT)

Peavey Radial Pro

Gaither (the ones with the internal spokes)

Molecules (bubble shaped drums)

North Drums

Corder

WTS (Welsh Tuning System)

Firchie

Roto-Toms

Pearl Free-floating

Zickos Supersonic (the ones that look like marshmallows)

...and probably several more

None of these ever caught on....BUT there are still some people out there who have wanted to make drums evolve.

wait wait..drums, drummers, drum playing, cymbals , holders to hold such things are in and of themselves by their very nature VINTAGE and a VINTAGE ART

was so in 1940 and will be in 2040 until we're chipped and silicone'd real good like. heh heh heh heh. he said chipped..

two hands (maximum) two sticks two feet (maximum) two pedals +/-

that's like 1920 man even on a new Yamaha PHX set phenolic ply

While I would generally agree that I may spend more time now over at DFO, I feel that the range of topics can border on the amusing...to say the least! VDF is focused on our vintage drums. And that's OK!

I have no complaints with the picture size here, which I believe is 1000x1000 pixels. It's the file size that is tough to deal with. I spend a good deal of time resizing my pictures and file size to upload here. But, it is what it is. Now, while DFO can handle considerably larger file sizes, they limit picture size to 600x480. That's just too small to see any detail with many pictures! They used to allow 1200x900, which was great, but when the site was revamped, someone felt the need to cut the picture size in half. That doesn't make me happy!

-Mark

Sorry for my rant

Totally out of character for me

If your "rant" was aimed at me, thank you for the amusing post. Typos are one thing and are something that the best of us are guilty of posting. So, I will not criticize your typos. Nor will I criticize errors in punctuation because most of us are guilty of this. The misspellings, and the use of improper forms of the proper words do not get a pass from me. The charge that some of us worship any old drums is silly. There are "vintage" drums that were crappy when they were new. However, they might be collectible just for that reason. There are also some of the most popular brands of vintage drums that I did not like back when they were new. So, I have acquired those drums strictly for trade bait to obtain the brands that I like. Your accusation that we "vintage" drum fans wouldn't recognize some of the newer drum brands is another false claim (at least for me). In my active gigging years, I pioneered some of the revolutionary departures from the old school drum. Camco Aristocrats were my gigging drums in the early 60s. I thought the round turret lugs looked cool on some excellent drums that were made about ten miles away from where I lived. I would prefer to have a set of (Oaklawn Camco drums or Heyman copy cat drums instead of the over-hyped DW brand. Now, in my retirement years, I choose to collect the types and brands of drums from the mid-20th century that I played and some that I wish I had played back then. Lastly, I have participated in some of the other drum forums. But, my favorite drum forum is right here with all of the creaks and groans of the antiquated features that tend to mirror the creaks and groans of this aging participant. And....Oh yeah.......I haven't smoked any tobacco in nearly twenty years and have taken exactly three drags of pot in my lifetime back in the 1960s. That convinced me to leave that stuff to other people--not me.