As much as I enjoy 80’s hair metal in doses these days…

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Why did every drummer have a double bass drum setup in their music videos/live setting? It’s no wonder that generation of music gets shit on today on multiple accounts 🤦🏻‍♂️

Name me one drummer in that genre that utilized the double kick drum please. I challenge you
 
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PurityS.L.G said:
Why did every drummer have a double bass drum setup in their music videos/live setting? It’s no wonder that generation of music gets shit on today on multiple accounts 🤦🏻‍♂️

Name me one drummer that era that utilized the double kick drum please. I challenge you
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you mean that did NOT utilize?

Tommy Lee as mentioned he was a monster on drums.
 
In that era? Or from that genre?

From that genre?

Tommy Lee and rob affuso come to mind.

From that era? Literally thousands of bands. Scott Travis did double kick. Igor Cavalera. Thomen Stauch and Ingo Schwichtenberg. Phil Taylor. There were a shit ton of badass drummers.
 
I thought it got used plenty and led to it being overused and pretty much obligatory to have a drummer back there thumping away just because you were supposed to do that. I dug it at the time too. But I was watching a drum cover of Zeppelin's Good Time Bad Times the other day (Yoyoka, lol) and really amazed at the stuff he did with just one kick.
 
Hahahah while I do dig Tommy Lee as a drummer and think he’s quite underrated in that the dude can hold a groove down and does exactly what the songs require, any drummer who has put some effort into double bass can play his parts with one foot. I remember watching Portnoy’s Liquid Drum Theater in high school, “You can start off on the Tommy Lee and work your way up to the Dave Lombardo!”

This is actually why I dig a lot of re-mixes, some of the 80’s production where they weren’t EQ’ing kicks to have much definition, you couldn’t even hear when they were playing double bass. I’m trying to think of what song it was, I’m 90% sure it was something Tommy Aldridge played on, but I never realized there was double bass in it until I heard a re-mix. I’m leaning on an older Ozzy tune.
 
PurityS.L.G said:
Why did every drummer have a double bass drum setup in their music videos/live setting? It’s no wonder that generation of music gets shit on today on multiple accounts 🤦🏻‍♂️

Name me one drummer that era that utilized the double kick drum please. I challenge you
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same reason they used empty headshells and cabs, it was for the show. I don't think a hair metal band on an arena stage with guitarists using a single mic'd 1 x 12 or even one halfstack, a single bass drum, and bassist using a 1x15 combo would have gone over as well.

Not nearly as pretentious as some of the U2 tours with over-the-top custom stages that would even make Kiss shake their heads.

IMO
 
PurityS.L.G said:
Why did every drummer have a double bass drum setup in their music videos/live setting? It’s no wonder that generation of music gets shit on today on multiple accounts 🤦🏻‍♂️

Name me one drummer that era that utilized the double kick drum please. I challenge you
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In the video’s they had cars they couldn’t afford, clothes they didn’t own, girls they couldn’t actually screw but a double bass drum defies all suspension of disbelief?
“Caruthers….the lack of musical integrity in this soft core porn shoot with a guitar solo is troubling and endangers my reputation as an artist”
 
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