A lot of good answers, but yours really nails it.

I also remember pouring over catalogues for months and months and shoveling snow etc so I could save some money for what I wanted. Mom and dad weren't so quick to buy us anything. And looking back, it was good that way, because the dream of ownership was often better than actually having it. Working for something really taught us a good life lesson. That is something that this generation will never know, the yearning, the wait, the patience and often the fact that you might never get it no matter what.

Because they are the only drums I ever had. Still work and sound just fine. I don't need another kit.

My requirements at 17 are not the same as at 63. Or else I'd own that Pro-Beat 24/13/14/16/18/24 out of the 71-catalog. In blonde thermogloss please.

But would be very uncomfortable, to move it..

Nor would I have my very first set. used (in 68) bdp Lud, 20/12/12/16/supra 225$ out of the paper with cases and cymbals.

What I have to day is perfect for all my needs. I don't long for the past It's fruitless. and very weird To me..

I do hold on to some things; (mostly automotive) but not some things I gotta carry in and out and set up and tear down and carry back...

This "reminds me of my youth" I see typed across the net; I can't get with that. My drumming isn't a vacuum museum. It's current. Hell I have a St Patricks Day gig coming up.........in a restaurant..;) (50 years of gigging..never quit...jeezus.

And I ain't carry no 24" twin floor Pro-Beat to a lounge gig..

If Living In The Past made me any money or made me live longer I'd do it. But I don't see it.

If I had the room I'd like a 24" set Gretsch 14x24 or Luddy. Until then it's only 18" or that "someday" 24" . No-In -between. I've had "in-betweens" and they're gone.

Because modern kits are way overpriced!

For me, it’s the sound, the field, the looks. The only new set I have ever owned was a DW collectors.Just wasn’t me. Ended up trading it for having a house painted. My current Slingerlands said it’s good sound that blows people away consistently. They feel good. They look great. And they’re a piece of history. What’s not to like?

That might be the most pragmatic post ever written anywhere! Mind Blowi

:)

Who needs new drums when you have lots of old ones?? Not me.

Back before "bean counters", offshore outsourcing and other manufacturing phenomenon companies just made drums to the best of their abilities. IMHO (yup, just an opinion) there is a sweet spot in the late 50's/early 60's where modern hardware & drum building reached a climax in quality. You can point fingers at Ringo, Pearl, the continuing industrial revolution, gas shortages, the quality of todays steel & a million others, but the world changed along with its drums.

Shells got thicker, hardware got heavier, drums got deeper, logos got bigger, and bass drum resonant heads went from white to black. The drums of the '80s were louder and projected better, but they lost a lot of character.

People got too focused on isolating the perfect note, rather than capturing the shell make up and head choice and tuning style along with the note itself.

It's like a computer trying to sing the blues. It can hit the right notes, but it can't make them come alive.

Tom mounts from the late 1950s and the 1960s are still copied by most drum manufacturers. The ball and socket Swivomatic mounts designed by Joe Thompson at Rogers were revolutionary. That basic design is still used by many drum makers. Now, the ball part is larger and the adjustments, that once required a drum key to operate, now are locked down by large hand-tightened knobs or levers. Then, in the late 1960s, Rogers drums introduced Memriloc mounts that utilized tubular sections that were secured in place by locking collars. Variations on those two basic designs dominate the drum mounting hardware to this day. Of course, there are some of us who have learned how to be friends with the trusty old rail consolette tom mounts that have been around since the big bands of the 1930s and 1940s featured drummers, who stepped out from the shadows to be featured players in those bands.