JohnnyGtar
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I started out on drums at age 10. Started guitar when I heard Kiss Alive 1 back when I was 14.
I bought a huge kit for stupidly cheap over 10 years ago. Having a big kit is cool because you can take just a 4 piece kit to a blues or country gig. Or, I can set up the whole thing and live out my high school stadium rock daydreams.
It's a 70's Pearl solid fiberglass shells kit (Peter Criss on Alive 1) except for a steel Tama snare drum. It has the same sizes as the kit in this picture, except I have 2 x 24" bass drums and sometimes I run 2 rack toms, 13" and 14". I like BIG and WIDE OPEN drums, and I don't muffle them except for felt strips on the batter heads of the bass drums, because I know how to tune a drum kit. I want THUNDER coming out of my kit. All Paiste cymbals. 2002, Rude, and Signature series. Paiste rules!
It's basically like this kit, except I sometimes run 2 rack toms. Sizes are 6,8,10,12 Concert toms. 13,14 rack toms. 16,18 floor toms. 2x24" bass drums, and a 6 1/2 x 14 Tama steel shell snare.
I like drums that sound like THUNDER. Bonzo did, too, and he had no problem being heard in Led Zeppelin.
My kit sounds like this, and it cuts through loud amps like a motherfucker!
Louie Bellson INVENTED the double bass kit when he was 15! Here's a pic of the FIRST double bass kit, made by Gretsch.
"Louie Bellson was born in Rock Falls, Illinois, in 1924, where his father owned a music store. He started playing drums at three years of age. While still a young child, Bellson's father moved the family and music store to Moline, Illinois. At 15, he pioneered using two bass drums at the same time, a technique he invented in his high school art class. At age 17, he triumphed over 40,000 drummers to win the Slingerland National Gene Krupa contest.
After graduating from Moline High School in 1942, he worked with big bands throughout the 1940s, with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Duke Ellington. In 1952, he married jazz singer Pearl Bailey. During the 1950s, he played with the Dorsey Brothers, Jazz at the Philharmonic, acted as Bailey's music director, and recorded as a leader for Norgran Records and Verve Records.
He's my all-time favorite drummer!
I know, it's a long post. Ask me what time it is and I'll build you a clock.
I bought a huge kit for stupidly cheap over 10 years ago. Having a big kit is cool because you can take just a 4 piece kit to a blues or country gig. Or, I can set up the whole thing and live out my high school stadium rock daydreams.
It's a 70's Pearl solid fiberglass shells kit (Peter Criss on Alive 1) except for a steel Tama snare drum. It has the same sizes as the kit in this picture, except I have 2 x 24" bass drums and sometimes I run 2 rack toms, 13" and 14". I like BIG and WIDE OPEN drums, and I don't muffle them except for felt strips on the batter heads of the bass drums, because I know how to tune a drum kit. I want THUNDER coming out of my kit. All Paiste cymbals. 2002, Rude, and Signature series. Paiste rules!
It's basically like this kit, except I sometimes run 2 rack toms. Sizes are 6,8,10,12 Concert toms. 13,14 rack toms. 16,18 floor toms. 2x24" bass drums, and a 6 1/2 x 14 Tama steel shell snare.
I like drums that sound like THUNDER. Bonzo did, too, and he had no problem being heard in Led Zeppelin.
My kit sounds like this, and it cuts through loud amps like a motherfucker!
Louie Bellson INVENTED the double bass kit when he was 15! Here's a pic of the FIRST double bass kit, made by Gretsch.
"Louie Bellson was born in Rock Falls, Illinois, in 1924, where his father owned a music store. He started playing drums at three years of age. While still a young child, Bellson's father moved the family and music store to Moline, Illinois. At 15, he pioneered using two bass drums at the same time, a technique he invented in his high school art class. At age 17, he triumphed over 40,000 drummers to win the Slingerland National Gene Krupa contest.
After graduating from Moline High School in 1942, he worked with big bands throughout the 1940s, with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Duke Ellington. In 1952, he married jazz singer Pearl Bailey. During the 1950s, he played with the Dorsey Brothers, Jazz at the Philharmonic, acted as Bailey's music director, and recorded as a leader for Norgran Records and Verve Records.
He's my all-time favorite drummer!
I know, it's a long post. Ask me what time it is and I'll build you a clock.
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Sorry, none are setup rn