Drummers Unite

Stardog Champion

I always see guitar stuff on here. Whether its bass, electric, acoustic, or whatever it's still ALL guitar. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I just thought us beat keepers need some love too. I mean we're always in the back of the stage and on tv the cameras never really look at us (VH1 storytellers.... saw Matt like three times playing?). And unless your a true fan of the band do you really know the name of the drummer? I think not.

So this is the thread for us drummers. What sets do you like? How many peices? Snares? What kind of cymbals do u play? Who are your drumming idols? Anything drum related please talk. Hell, even if you don't play what kind of sounds do u like us to make?

Number 18

Great thread, man. I've been playing for fifteen years. I LOVE DW kits, but I also like Yamaha. I have an old Stage Custom before they became Yamaha's entry level line. I play mostly Zildjian A Custom.

Alex Van Halen was the first drummer that awed me. Since then I've liked Mike Portnoy, Scott Phillips, Jukka Nevalainen, Carter Beauford, Chad Gracey, and even Lars Ulrich. Pearl Jam's drummers have always been great. I love Matt Cameron and have since his Soundgarden days - especially when he jammed with Spoonman.

So anyways, thinking about getting a new kit...any suggestions?

peachbone

The first real kit I ever had was an early 80's Tama RockStar, I think, with "power toms". Actually, it had just one rack tom, but it was like 12" deep or something. It sounded pretty good, and that was back when I didn't know how to tune a drum!

The next kit I got was a mid 60's purple sparkle Slingerland, 4-piece. I bought it at a local music store for--get this--$190. I priced individual drums with this finish, etc., on eBay and never saw a single drum sell for less than $150, so I definitely made out on that one.

Now I play a Yamaha Stage Custom fusion set up (10", 12", 14" toms, 22"x17"). I recently ordered a 16" floor tom. I was a little skeptical of the fusion set up. I thought it wouldn't rock hard enough, but it sounds sweet. If Danny Carey can rock an 8" tom, there's no reason why a 10" can't work!

My main snare is a 6.5"x14" Black Bob Pork Pie. I also have a vintage Slingerland that came with that kit.

I have an 17" A medium thin crash, 18" K dark medium think crash, 20" Z Custom Rock crash, a 21" Rock ride, and 15" new beat hi-hats.

I've been thinking of adding an 18" china, and I'd like to get a 24" kick drum.

I don't know if this is too dorky, but I play Evans white coated heads, too. Genera G2s for my toms, power center snare, and EQ4 on my bass drum.

Somehow I think I've crossed that geeky line.

My fav drummers: Matt Cameron (duh), John Bonham, Brad Wilke (Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave), Keith Moon, Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Bill Bruford (Yes), the guy for Helmet, Chad Smith.

Je_Suis_Alive

My first kit was a westbury....
I still plau drum in another band than my solo project,.
I 'll always remember buying my first splash cymbal!!!!
I was soooooooooo excited....more than when I bought my drumkit...
Dave Abruzesse is my hero..no diss to the others...
He knew how to fuck around wiht cymbals...

anyways..
now I'm just buy myslef, I will record my drum soon on my songs...
http://www.myspace.com/fridayzodds
I love drumming!!!!

peace!!!

Pr

blackredyellow79

Nice Thread man...
I'm a DW guy from head to pedal I guess you could say. I used to play Zildjian A Customs, Matt Cameron got me turned on to Z Customs. They just rip through everything, they are loud and aggresive. When I made the switch my band really noticed a difference. The 22' inch custom ride is the best sounding ride I've ever played.
My favs from this generation would be Matt Cameron(who else), Jack Irons and Chad Smith.

Stardog Champion

I'm also a DW player... well be it a new one. Just recently picked up a new DW set. Used to play on an old TAMA Rockstar. After playing it for a long time it just became to beat up and old and I needed a new set. Thats when I decided to get this DW for a nice prive of $2200. It had been on the floor of the Guitar Cennter near me for 6 months and they needed to get rid of it so he dropped over 3 grand off the price. Its in perfect condition, brand new and I'm loving it.

As for cymbals I play Sabian AA and AAX. Though I do like Zildjian A custom rides.

Je_Suis_Alive wrote:

He knew how to fuck around wiht cymbals...

Good call. Abruzesse did amazing cymbal work in songs like Breath and Daughter. Still I think Matt is my favorite PJ drummer. Maybe It's because he amazed me in Soundgarden, but I still think he's pretty damn good. Right now I really enjoying listening to Carter Beauford's stuff. And not just the stuff with DMB, although some of it is top notch.

peachbone

Stardog, I noticed your signature is a quote by Ed Ved, from the Pittsburgh show. I was there at that show! How hilarious was that? I thought they were going to boo PJ off the stage when they ripped into the Steelers. They made a nice save, though.

Stardog Champion

Yeah he did set off the Here we go Steelers chant throughout the place, but it was such an amazing show I don't think anyone cared that much. The Jason Bay thing was cool too.

zelda4ever

im probably the youngest drummeron this site

zelda4ever

im getting my first drumset for christmas and its gonna be a 5 piece.2 cymbals 1 snare and a..... um damn i forgot what the big round thing in the middle is called!anyway a few other drums i cant define right now

zelda4ever

my first drum was a practice pad for band class,his name is drummy and his best friend was a bells kit named bob

chopitdown

good thread

my first (and still only) set was a ludwig rocker series. Over the years it got upgraded hardware...DW and Gibralter. Went through the Dave A cymbal phase of sabiann AAX 13" fusion hats, 17 and 18 AAX crashes and a 20 AA rock ride. Added a Z custom dark crash after some other drummer took over for a little band we all like. I rigged my drums ala bonham and dave...mounted the 13" tom next to the floor tom. Regret never udgrading the snare...and not being able to take them with me now...someday hopefully

I learned by playing to PJ and really got into daves bassdrum and cymbal work. I tried to emulate all the funky fills...favorite is the alive unplugged diddy at the beginning of the second verse.

drummer heros: bonham, abbruzzese, cameron, c. beauford, dana carey, chad smith

enharmonic

I had an Ayotte steel hoop set from 94 that was just insane. I wish a million times over that I never sold it.

I also had a Starclassic maple set that was sweet, just in a different way.

My next drum set will probably be Maryland Drums.

zelda4ever

whats your favorite song according to drums

Memories of Grey

let me get this out of the way:
nice thread, thank you, you kick ass.

i've only been playing for.. 2 and a half years. but i've been in my first band for almost 2 years and we're doing pretty damn good.
uh myset up is: Tama Rockstar in Rock Chrome. A Zild Mastersound hats, A custom 17" Projection Crash, A Zild 18" Med. thin Crash, uh.. old (A zild i think) ride from ebay, and a 12 wuhan crash hahaha i love that thing. pdp hardware, iron cobra db and hi hat stand.

Matt is insane, i just went to the 3rd SF show, my first PJ experience/enlightening and i'm speachless.
Matt kicks ass, Dave A kicks ass, Jack kicks ass man, they all kick ass.

go drummers!
we need more respect.
man.
freaking guitarists :P

Memories of Grey

zelda4ever wrote:

whats your favorite song according to drums

by Pearl Jam?

well i've been playing Evenflow for a while now, pretty much got it down, i love it, its hella fun.

I'm challenging myself to learn all the songs from Ten since i find myself listening to that CD the most out of all of their albums.
sofar I can play Once, Evenflow, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy fine (along with the CD player that is) havent tried the others except Porch.. kinda having a little bit of a prob there but i'll get it. all that matters is that i'm having fun right?

rock on brothers

xDanerrr16

i love Van Halen. I think he is absoloutly amazingg!
i have a Pearl drum set now...my Dad is teaching me how to play since he used to be in a rock band. I think its really amazing to play with all of these cool rock songs...:)
*Dana

EBowie

I've been playing the drums just over five years now. I have a Yamaha Stage Custom Advantage kit--10, 12, 14" toms, 22" bass, and the 14x5.5" snare that came with the kit. However, I don't use that snare as I have two Ludwig Supraphonic snares that are way better--the 14x5" LM400 and the 14x6.5" LM402, both are aluminum and both kick ass. I have Zildjian cymbals: 14" A New Beat hats, 17" A med. crash, 18" Z custom rock crash, 21" A Sweet ride, and a 10" A custom splash (which I don't use all the time). I haven't quite figured out whether or not I like having a splash in my setup.

My favorite drummer: Tie between Matt Cameron and John Bonham.

Also, I will always feel that Matt Cameron is the best drummer that Pearl Jam has ever had. I respect others opinions on this matter, but mine will never change.

Take care everyone, keep rockin'. Drums rule.

Stardog Champion

zelda4ever wrote:

whats your favorite song according to drums

By Pearl Jam it would probably be Alive. My band plays it and it's easily one of my favorites because its real easy to just go off during the solo around the set and stuff.It's one of the few times people actually pay attention to what I'm doing.

Other songs I like to drum to are "Drive In Drive Out" by Dave Matthews Band, "Sick Sad Little World" by Incubus, and "One" by Metallica. All of these I play fairly often as my band plays them live alot, but every time I try to do something different. Whether it be the way I play the double bass in "One" or the way i play fills in "Drive In Drive Out," I always like doing things different to keep it so I am just a big part of the band as the guitarists.

If by favoirte song according to drums you meant which song has the best drums in it that would be pretty much impossible to me. I meran there's no doubt it would either be something by Buddy Rich or Gene Krupa, but to pick out one song is impossible. They did amazing things with their drums that have not since then been duplicated and proabably never will be. If you've never watched what these drumming legends have done please, you owe it to yourself, check them out on drummerworld. Drumming doesn't get better. Yes rock drumming today is pretty good, and while I love Cameron, Beuford, and all the other current rock drummers they can't even come close to the talent of Krupa and Rich and the other Jazz greats.

zelda4ever

Memories of Grey wrote:

by Pearl Jam?

well i've been playing Evenflow for a while now, pretty much got it down, i love it, its hella fun.

I'm challenging myself to learn all the songs from Ten since i find myself listening to that CD the most out of all of their albums.
sofar I can play Once, Evenflow, Alive, Why Go, Black, Jeremy fine (along with the CD player that is) havent tried the others except Porch.. kinda having a little bit of a prob there but i'll get it. all that matters is that i'm having fun right?

rock on brothers

thats my favorite pj song

Dirt_Like_Me

Awesome thread.

I don't play the drums yet, but I would like to someday very soon. There aren't too many drum schools in Las Vegas so I plan to teach myself how to play until I move to Seattle (who has a much more creative atmosphere). I know that they have drum schools up there, so I might take lessons when the day comes. My #1 influence is the great Matt Cameron, whom I was introduced to when Badmotorfinger came out. It wasn't until Superunknown (the album) that I knew that I wanted to play the drums. I really like his drumming with Pearl Jam, especially on the new album and those Even Flow solos are sick!

I have quite a few influences, but the major ones are....Matt Cameron, Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney), Bill Berry (R.E.M. - he's very underrated), Charlie Watts, Doug Clifford (CCR), Keith Moon, and John Bonham.