Hey guys, I was waiting to post about this until I had more to say than just "I'm in a new band" so here it is.
I joined a new band. We call ourselves Damage Poets. It's a four piece. Vocals-Tommy, Guitar- David, Bass- Kevin, Drums-me.
We have recordings of practices but not much more. There is enough music for a 45 min set though. We recorded a drum track last night for one of the songs with a mic in front of the set. It came out fine and might do something with that temporarily. Will probably do some songs with a 4-track recorder in a couple weeks.
What's kind of exciting is the set up I'm using for this band. I really like it so far. Much more compact than what I have been using for the last 26 years. Some of the changes 12" rack tom on snare stand, hanging 14" tom off cymbal stand, 5.5x14 snare and 2 crashes. For RDM I use a 13" rack, 16 and 18" floors, 6.5x14 snare and 3 crashes.
This is the new configuration
drums
5.5x14 Yamaha copper snare
12x11 Tama Artstar II tom
14x13 Tama Artstar II tom
24x18 Yamaha Turbo Tour bass drum
hardware Tama, Yamaha, Mapex single pedal
cymbals
UFiP 17" Tiger crash
UFiP 20" Tiger crash
UFiP 21" Bionic ride
UFiP 14" Bionic hats
The Bionics (B20) sound amazing and the Tigers (B8) are explosive and quick.
pics
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