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Who left my snare bag in front of my bass drum??? OH. It was only at sound check, and my lead singer had not even set up the cymbals on the right hand side of my 1/3 Gibraltar cage...good roadies are hard to find....lol

Smokin' ???

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Cool pics, thanks for sharing!

Cool pics, thanks for sharing!

Oh, My pleasure, man....Well...I know I promised I'd send you guys a few pix, but I've been on the road for a few, so this is the first I've been able to get you guys some pix from my dinky camera.....lol

Sound check for 750 seat club

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nice luddies! must be a mission to lug that bass drum around!

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/62/l_9906d49874c74bceb95c73a65ed014a4.jpg With my tee shirt: Pirates Of Sorrento (Italy) where me and my wife spent April '07


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Who left my snare bag in front of my bass drum??? OH. It was only at sound check, and my lead singer had not even set up the cymbals on the right hand side of my 1/3 Gibraltar cage...good roadies are hard to find....lol

Smokin' ???

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***HOLA como estas Mi amigo DESTROYER * CREATIVE ARTISTIC OPEN MINDED DRUMMER ARTIST(CAT) within alot of aware-ness WISDOM KNOWLEDGE * EXCELLENTE ROJO CALIENTE amigo *Love it gracias

nice luddies! must be a mission to lug that bass drum around!

Yes...Quite! :icon_lol:

Yup! The roadies mission indeedy.

And we DO TRY to keep them in line.....

uh....yeah....RIGHT!!!.....:punk:

:^)

That Ludwig bass drum is absolutely beautiful. I'm so jealous. Beautiful pics, man.

Awesome!

Looking good Destroyer! Thanks for sharing those with us. From one who's drums will always be stationary, thanks for letting me see how the other half lives!

That bass drum is huge! What size is it?

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Destroyer!! great pics, love that kit....

Tell me something seriously....how do you get the lead singer to set stuff for you???? lol

I gotta know!!!! LOL

Awsome!

Cheers

Very Cool, Destroyer. I am amazed the singer set anything up for ya!!!! Cool! It is always good to have an extra hand to help out.

Good pictures, D.

Thanks for taking the time to post them.

That bass drum is huge! What size is it?

It's a 26" Beave.....same size John Bonham played. I play this kit on the 4 tunes on our Hookmeisters MySpace....with only two mics...1 on the kick, 1 overhead. These songs were recorded before I bought my Audix DP-7 drum mic kit.

It was only at sound check, and my lead singer had not even set up the cymbals on the right hand side of my 1/3 Gibraltar cage...good roadies are hard to find....lol

[COLOR="Red"]Destroyer!! great pics, love that kit....

Tell me something seriously....how do you get the lead singer to set stuff for you???? lol

I gotta know!!!! LOL
Awsome!

Cheers

Thanks Jackstraw.

Well...it's a trade secret, but we're all drummers here...so I guess it's cool to let you all in on it.

These steps CANNOT BE TAKEN IN RANDOM ORDER...precise order is the key Lads n' Ladies!

First I clap my hands twice...like so *Clap* *Clap*, then I snap my fingers thrice, *snap* *snap* *snap* and then slap my forehead with the metal hand sign...thus :punk:....and it HAS TO BE in the form of a salute....preferably a U.S. Navy. Air Force, Marines, Army, etc etc etc... crisply snappped salute....and then he is mine to control.

"NO...NO NO NO...the BIG cymbal goes on the BIG cymbal side....ok?...and the little cymbals go on the little cymbals gimbals.....GOT IT???"

*sigh*.......They take a while to train.....you MUST NEEDS be patient with them....for it is their destiny to obey their drummer once this ritual is gotten right....

This WILL NOT....I repeat WILL NOT....work with female lead singers....they are ever-safe from the DRUMMER-CAUSES-LEAD SINGER-TO-LOAD-THEIR-STUFF-FOREVER AND EVER-SPELL.

BEWARE!!! If you even look at a female lead singer with the slightest INTENTION of bending them to your will as a roadie, they will espy your minds-eye and Slap you into next week..or into the next millennia, whichever they decide....without pay, without food, and they CAN bend YOU to their will as a roadie, AT WILL....but of the secret method they use to do this, I do not know.

Seemingly it is an 'at my will' look, or mayhaps it is just a simple flick of the feminine wrist....I've seen it happen many a time....but of their cunning method I know not.:icon_cool:

You CAN ward against this catastophic mind-bend....but it takes much holy water, burning of candles from 3 ends, and standing on your hands, upside down in front of 10 mirrors for precisesly 103.7625 minutes, (I found this out by much trial and error, young ones)...but ere this warding away of the [B][I]Female-lead-singers-will-forever-and-ever-to-make-you-her-equipment-purse-hat-gloves-microphone-PA System-snack-drink-TV remote-beck-and-call-for-anything-slave-drummer is only good each time it is performed.

In other words.......It must be repeated before each performance....and....*Gasp*...rehearsal....other-wise she can entrap you un-awares, and make you HER roadie forever and ever....and drummers are especially vulnerable.....and do your utmost to stay away from jewelry shops ere you might find yourself looking at *GASP* becoming totally ensnared for LIFE with her....Betrothal/wedding Rings, jewels,house, cars, babies......

Male lead singers are a snap...just follow the simple steps above, and it shall be as I have decreed....and it only takes one time to enslave your lead singer forever and ever.....Easy as 1-2-3.

AND.....(And this is the really good part).....it can NEVER be reversed....not even by you.....the drummer.....except if you and YOU ALONE fire him, it will be reversed 6 months-to-the-day and you will be rid of him.....normally, though, once a male lead singer is entrapped, he will remain a drummers gofer for all time...you,....or whatever drummer his next band has, and the next, and the next, and the next.... be they male or female drummers, for thus it is so.

Be prepared that for AT LEAST 6 months your lead singer will be forever wanting to tote your gear. *sigh*...This is normal and is allowable, however, to completely rid yourself of this person, the less attention you give him, the faster he will begone.

AND.... for that 6 months, if you have played your cards right, you will have TWO lead singers hauling your gear hither and yon....the old and the new....remember never to try to influence a FEMALE lead singer, 'else you'll ALL be bent to HER will....ex lead singer and new singer and drummer....for it is written....And bands have been known to implode from this effect.

I've seen female drummers just press the wrist *so* or roll their eyes just so....and ALL male members in the band become enslaved forever and ever to her slightest wish....no clapping, no snapping, no salute.


I have no knowledge as how to avoid this......or how this works in an all-female band.

As to androgenous gendered bands like The NY Dolls or Marylyn Manson, I have not the slightest clue...... :^(



:^)

Cool pix. Love the luddies, Gibson LP, and Marshalls, in that order.

Wow, destroyer... I am so jealous of that luddy you got there. WOW!!!!!

Destroyer,
great pics, and I love your sense of humor. Those Ludwigs are a set I drool over everytime I visit my local music store. Thanks for sharing!!!

Your bass player is using a Carvin R600 or R1000 head! I love mine!

I love your kit!! Is that the Zep set?!

Destroyer, I tried to enslave my male lead singer, but he just stared and looked at me funny. Did I do something wrong? Is my lead singer really female? Does it work on guitarists/bassists as well?

And that is an awesome bass drum. The rest of the set is cool too, but especially the bass drum.

I love your kit!! Is that the Zep set?!

Thanks, Yes, it's the Ludwig re-issue kit. I really love the sound of these drums. The bass drum is the same dimension as the 70's Ludwig 26". 14" deep, and it projects as well as the modern trend of deeper bass drums.

The older bass drums were 14" wide so a person could carry it in a marching band or use it on a concert stand for symphonic music, like classical or opera concerts. I have a 28" Leedy bass drum that's like that. And I also have a 32" Slingerland bass drum that is 14" wide, probably was used for a concert bass drum on a stand.

I've seen a lot of pictures of 1920's to 1950's drummer using the 28" bass drum as part of their drum kit, I think they used the larger bass drum in the swing bands etc to be able to project well with the horns, keys etc. I don't think they had the technology to really mic drum kits. Not really sure on that.

The band leader and/or singer usually had a mic for announcements and vocals.

Destroyer, I tried to enslave my male lead singer, but he just stared and looked at me funny. Did I do something wrong? Is my lead singer really female? Does it work on guitarists/bassists as well?

And that is an awesome bass drum. The rest of the set is cool too, but especially the bass drum.

Hmmmm.:think:

Did he sneak around behind your back and read my thread? :icon_eek:If so, it might have alerted him. Though slow to realize the deeper realities of higher planes of consciousness like we drummers, lead singers, if alerted to the fact, CAN numbly feel when this spell is cast....normally though, they have no clue. If your lead singer is especially dense, you may have to repeat these steps a couple of times.

Try again tomorrow, or whenever you next meet. Also you must use this salute:punk:holding your fingers in the 'horn' display, but with the thumb tucked under your folded fingers rather than of top of them, and do so in a military manner. Crisp.

So it's clap twice, snap thrice, then salute.

I've never tried it on a bass player or guitarist or keyboardist. I imagine it would work, but I have mercy on them because they have tons of HEAVY stuff to lug around and set up which I don't touch because they like everything just so...., plus they make my mics and mixer work with the TERRIBLY HEAVY main PA cabinets and thousands of wires that go every which way , which I also don't touch or lug round....because I have my OWN stuff to set up PLUS make sure my lead singer in training can correctly and properly place my cymbals, get my rack set up, pull out my stands and set them up, (but he doesn't know how to set the the correct height yet GRRR!) Sometimes when I get mad at something he did wrong, I'll have him help the other guys with the PA stuff until I cool off enough to set another simple task that is within the parameters of his training level.

Maybe I can instruct him in the ways of bass drum pedal set-up, we'll see. I highly doubt it though.... There IS that issue of connecting the double pedal with the set screws, and that might be above his training level...we'll see how he fares.

Soooo. No, I don't have mercy on my lead singer because if I'm not careful and become lax on my training, he might tend to snap back into the "LAZY WAY" and that just wouldn't do at all....The lead singer is usually the lazy one that just wants to saunter out on stage and not be seen lugging stuff or putting anything together, except MAYBE their own microphone, but I've seen even that teeny tiny bit of work done by the other band members, and this, in my estimation, is foolish to let them get away with...

And then they try to escape work by leaving at the end of the gig to go home......when no one is looking, I might add. Taking their car keys sneakily will work only about half the time because they can just schmooze a ride home from a girl in the audience. OH yes! It's a fact! SHAMEFUL!

And that is why I have to keep a sharp lookout to make sure my lead singer always has something to do around my kit.

Next week I am starting him on the 'CORRECT WAY TO POLISH DRUMS' and I think he will be amazingly good at this small piddling task.

The main thing to remember in TRAINING YOUR LEAD SINGER TO PERFORM SIMPLE TASKS is to keep their little devious minds and hands busy around the drum kit.

And don't try to make them multi-task. They are horrible at it and they WILL mess something up or forget something....like where they mis-layed the drum tuning key...one of the reasons I keep one in my pocket and the other one on a chain. The one on the chain is so he can spot it easily when he mislays it, or just wear it around his neck to remind himself where it is.

THAT'S why I'm hesitant at training him in the WAYS OF THE BASS DRUM DOUBLE PEDAL, because sure as the sun rises and sets, he'll use the drum key to turn other stuff I don't want him to turn, like my snare or tom head tuning lugs. He's fascinated with the little square hole in the end of it....I saw him trying it on the guitar players tuning knobs on the neck of the instrument, and the silly goose must have sat there an HOUR trying to figure out how the drum key works on the guitar tuning knob....And that will NEVER do to have him mess THAT up, because then the guitar player's guitar would be all fouled up and out of tune because YOU, the DRUMMER, let the singer loose with a dangerous tool, and the guitar player might get mad and throw stuff and yell...they seem to like to do that, I've noticed..

Lead singers like to play with the drum key and loose it and turn weird stuff, so you have to keep a sharp eye out that something you DON'T want turned might get turned.

And NEVER EVER EVER let the lead singer change a light bulb with the key in his hand, because sure as we're all standing here, he WILL try to fit the key down into the live electrical socket, and that would never do...unless you want a lead singer with REALLY wild hair that drools.

And then the drummer would have to fire the singer and everyone has to look for a new one, and you don't want a wild-haired lead singer walking around drooling on your stuff while the 6 month spell slowly disappears, because you still will have him PLUS the new lead singer carrying your stuff and setting things up, if you spell-bind your new lead singer correctly.

So keep a close wary eye on your SINGER-IN-TRAINING, keep a spare key in your pocket, and don't let them touch your drumsticks, because I've also noticed they like to hit stuff and bite the pointy end of the stick. Why they do this, I do not know.

:loller: I can see this spreading to all drummers, and I can see all lead singers shaking their heads and going, "What now?" :loller4: