I also have a pacific lx drum kit (drumers take too long to set up) paiste innovation 14 " heavy hi hats paiste signature 20" full ride paiste signature 17" mellow crash I love to lurk , but try to make it to chat on game days that i'm off work . . .
Some sweet stuff on this thread, I'm drooling. I play a 1994 Guild Brian May model guitar, strung with 11-gauge D'Addarios. No effects, straight into a rack-mounted 60 watt Fender Tube head, through a Carvin 4X12 cabinent. I also have a Martin dreadnought.
1972 Martin acoustic 1965+ or - Gibson 335 -cherry red - hollow body -2 pickups - very thin neck 1965 approx Fender Pro Reverb amp
My main accessory: a Yamaha PSR-540 keyboard that goes everywhere with me lately. An old vibraphone - can't even think of the brand right now - that was nice at one time but needs a couple of repairs. I keep it up at the school. I'm too depressed to try to fix it because our percussion ensemble group from last spring seems to have sort of scattered. Maybe later when things are looking up. I'll probably need some of them to help me figure it out. (No, if anyone wonders, I'm not in Houston.) A really old acoustic guitar that used to be my dad's. Nothing fancy. Some cheap brand. I'm just trying to learn on it. Supposedly I also own my dad's cornet. Someday hopefully I'll learn to play it. And also take the flute back up. On the long to-do list. I don't have a flute right now. Since I'm mostly a classical musician and I work at a university, I don't have to buy most of my own stuff, considering that I play piano and percussion. Thank goodness, since I don't make much money. I have access to pianos and percussion equipment there and at the high school. What I need is a drum kit, to learn on. I keep putting it off because I'm afraid of making lots of obnoxious noise, plus I just don't know how to get started. (I have all kinds of the usual classical, marching band, etc. training.) I also need to get some kind of "keyboards for dummies" book so I can learn how to jam on it and read chord charts. I'm perfectly fine if I have printed music with notes. sigh... just trying to navigate the world of popular music, and feeling like a hopeless classical nerd. It's just that's what you learn in school.
I have a Selmer 80 Super Action Series II tenor sax, a Conn alto from the 1920's, and a couple of King trombones that belonged to my dad. FWIW, I'm a sax player, not a brass guy.
Isabel, why don't you try http://www.music123.com ? They have a lot of things. So does ebay. If I had a drum kit, I'd give it to you. But I don't. So I won't. Geez, this is the "how big is my penis" thread, squared. I've got a bunch of crap and gear. Guitars, bass, piano, violin, keyboard, groovebox, dj crap, effects crap, rack crap, mixer crap, crap crap crap. It's all just noizemakers. We try to make order from chaos, for beauty, and we try to make ugly chaos noize when we want ugly. Mozart is gorgeous order and sun ra is gorgeous chaos.
Haha, I rock the C trumpet as well. For my Bb, I go with the 72 bell, large bore, reverse leadpipe. And the 2C mouthpiece.
and there is nothing a solid bassist appreciates more than a drummer who can stay on beat... agree...some real nice stuff being listed here...
Damn straight! I played with a drummer years ago who had tremendous talent as a rock drummer. He was creative and had great energy. His one flaw was that he had bad time. About 80 percent of the time, he was fine. But, the other 20 percent, he would speed up or slow down and, worst of all, get in the middle of a fill he couldn't get out of on beat one. You could feel it coming too. He would be powering through a few bars, go into this fill that would start off promising, then, all of a sudden, you realize he isn't going to make one. He then finishes his fill by crashing on the and of one when it should have been on the one. Yikes! Nothing scarier than that. I love my drummer now. She is freakin' phenomenal and we have terrific musical chemistry. It is effortless to play now.
Alto Sax: 1989 Yanagisawa 880; Tenney Custom Meyer 6M Mouthpiece, Bay Ligature, Alexander Superial 3.5 reeds. Tenor Sax: Keilwerth SX90R Black Nickel; Tenney Custom Otto Link 7* Mouthpiece, Phil Barone New York 7* Mouthpiece, Francois Louis Ultimate Ligature, Alexander Superial DC 3 Reeds. Yamaha 43 Clarinet, Pete Fountain Crystal Mouthpiece Yamaha 23 Flute Yamaha 530 Keyboard Fender Standard Telecaster and a Crate amp
Thats the problem I ran into with rock drummers...their love of complicated fills when a simpler one would have suited the song better.. One of the best and most powerful drummers I have ever known had the same problem you describe...he would be powerring along and really driving the beat ...and then he would get to a transition point...adn go into a long complicated fill across the toms...and then ran out of time..boom...no problem...throw in a crash or two...even if it ended up trampling on the next bar.. tons of talent....a little short on common sense.. I blame people like Tommy Lee and other 80's rock drummers who always seemed to want to stand out by having tons of fancy fills in their parts when the songs didnt necessarily call for them. Thats one of the best features of my playing...I dont feel the need to go Billy Sheehan on ppl...I just lay down a steady bottom end more like Ian Hill. I really need to pick up the axe and jam...I havent done that in a couple of years...
I play trumpet, can I join? ----------------------- Bach Strad Model 37 "Lone Star Edition" Bach Strad Mt. Vernon
I suppose I could....but I find that his complicated fills fit the nature of the songs Rush does better than the ones Tommy Lee and other hair band drummers did for theirs. or....I have so much respect for Peart that I cant bear saying anything bad about him?
I own and play occasinally an Ibanez RG-170(01) lefty electric guitar. For amp I use a Marshall 100W tube with a Ibanez power lead and DOD DM pedal. My musical inspiration are old Metallica,Slayer, malevolent Creation and Brutality. Some new stuff are Suffocation,Decrepit Birth,Gorgasm...etc. So basically I enjoy playing fast technical music that doesn't bore me and is a challenge.
Seems like we could start a BBS brass ensemble. What's funny is that one of the Rockets guys called me 2 yrs ago to ask what I thought of a drum and bugle type thing and I said it could be interesting. They ended up going with just drums, sadly enough.
amen to that! i have a 72' bassman 50 and the tone quality of it has spoiled me for all other amps. ive had offers to sell it for way more than i payed, but i cant find another amp that sounds as good.
