Re: Price of gear skyrocketing
I just got to post. Used 1967 WMP Ludwig Super Classics, with 20" Med ride and 18" Thin crash and 14" hi-hats, Paiste 602 cymbals, and all hardware, hard fiber cases for all the drums and a trap case. $700.00 total. In 1970. Drum sticks, $1.10 a pair. Don't know the increase for inflation, but I figure the same set-up today in the same quality would go for around the $5000.00 mark. Drum sticks I buy now for about $9.00.
The price of everything is going up. I paid TWICE as much for my new truck a couple of years ago than my folks paid for their 1st house around the same time I got my drums.
But then again, I make more in a day now than my father made in a week.
Just wish I still had them Ludwigs!
"You can never legislate stupidity, because there is no power in this world that can prevent it."-My Dad after watching his golf partner trying to hit a ball through a grove of trees.
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