Hello, my name is Stevie and I'm new here.

Hello all you skin slappers. I am new to the site and I just bought a (according to the vintage guide a 1954 Rogers entry level/cocktail kit snare.) Please if anyone has any pics of others like it or knows of a place to get further info about it so I can say that is what I have let me know. Any additional info would be great. I am going to try to get some pictures loaded on here.

Hi, I'm Gideon and I'm brand new here! I'm very interested in 70's and 80's Ludwig kits. Can't wait to look around more on this forum!

Hey guys, looks I'm the first newbie that's posted here in awhile!

New to the site, and new to drumming as well. I'm turning 60, yup, I said 60(!) in another week and I decided its finally time to play the drums. Its a bug that's never left me since I was young, but I grew up in an apartment and mom and dad said, "play the guitar instead son, its quieter". Well, I did and I became an ok guitarist, but the drums always called. So I just bought a pretty little MIJ Norma kit in sparkle red. From 67 I believe, so its vintage like me but in better shape! I'm learning a lot here already, for instance, I had no idea what MIJ even meant 2 weeks ago or that there were so many out there!

I also have no idea where this will take me, nor do I have any great expectations, I guess I just want to have a little fun and scratch that itch...finally!

Anyway, great forum and glad to be here!

Welcome. And good luck on your journey

From Dudley.........became somewhat involved in VDF 8 years ago and recently started posting items for sale in the forum. I thought it would be best if I make an introduction since my name probably has seemed to pop up out of nowhere all of a sudden and no one is familiar with me. I started playing drums in 1964 and took lessons for a few years from a guy who did some studying with GK. Study also incorporated reading, but I have always wished I devoted more time to the reading instead of playing in cover bands.

My two interests for most of my life (just turned 70 a few months back) have been drums (that's obvious) and classic Mustangs.

For the past 20 years the Mustang(s) have occupied my time more. However, I sold what will probably be my last Mustang almost four years ago, which I had not planned on doing for many, many years. It is a 1968 with less than 12,000 miles on it, an original never restored with just about every factory part still on it. It was the cover feature car for the April 2018 MCA publication Mustang Times. An MCA national gold card judge was interested in it for a number of years, and instead of it sitting in my garage covered up almost all year long, I finally thought it would be nice if it could actually be seen. Besides being a judge, the new owner has a restoration business which has restored some historically significant Mustangs, he writes articles for magazines and travels international at times for activities tied to the Mustang hobby.

Since then I've started to lean towards drums again. I became active in my church's praise band about 15 years ago which I have very pleased to be involved in. Until I joined the band, Christian music didn't mean much to me, but now I thoroughly enjoy the various styles that the genre covers from artists such as Casting Crowns, Phil Wickham, Lincoln Brewster, Amy Grant, Rend Collective etc. I have to admit it felt strange to be playing drums in the sanctuary, but I've since overcome those feelings. The music also allows me to incorporate into my playing more of the accessories such as wind chimes, bells, finger cymbals, triangle, bongos, etc. It's nice to be playing routinely each week and not have to deal with packing up/breaking down and transporting the kit. I have now incorporated a full Roland TD25 within my Rogers Londoner V butcher block kit which is set up semi permanently in the church. The challenging part was to incorporate the two BD pedals side by side (one for the acoustic and one for the e-BD pad. I ended up using a dbl pedal with the slave (which I use the slave for striking the e-pad) to the right of the acoustic pedal and placed the e-BD pad to the right of the floor tom where there is more room height wise. The e-tom pads are above and overhang the two acoustic toms on the bass. The cymbal pads are directly above the drums and the Zildjians above the pads. I have both the regular hat and the electric hat nested side by side. I feel more like I'm riding a horse due to the spread of my legs to reach the four pedals, but that and coordinating my use between the acoustic and the electric has been a learning curve.

I'm down to three sets of Rogers which occasionally I will rotate to the church depending on the time of year. We recently redesigned our "stage" which left me with less room so unfortunately I can't use (or at least not all of) what I consider my practice kit which is a 16 drum set up with all my accessories and ample cymbals.

Okay, enough rambling.

I've been enjoying spending leisurely time cruising through the topics and postings the past few weeks, and though I am far from an expert on drums, I believe I know just enough to either get myself in trouble or make a fool of myself thinking I know what I'm 'talking about'.

Thanks,

Dudley