Bass Drum Hoops - Random Question

[iamanidiot]

Ok, so in this here video, at some point, the lead singer is standing on the front of the Pearl kit.
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I'd like to do this, and i'd like members of my band to do this, during gigs and while I don't have a kit for gigging on yet, i'm wondering if you get reinforced hoops specifically for the purpose of standing on or if the drumkit as standard is strong enough to support someone? I don't want to wreck whatever drumkit I end up getting but i'm still curious about the possibility of standing on it during gigs for visual effect.

[Russ]

This is the very reason i'm not in bands.

[Bish]

Tell whomever wants to stand on your drums to buy them first.

Otherwise if you have a rack that is heavily supported, it could hold a slender person.

I'd never ever let anyone do that to my drums for any reason, however. But that's just me.

Oh man, he stood on the entire kit. Bass drum and high tom. The kit must be well built to hold him up like that. Looks cool, I have to admit.

[AlexGoodwin]

On my old kit (which was terrible) when filiming things for you tube my singer and guitarist would stand on my bass drum, and it was solid as a rock. I see no problem with it, however if you have wooden hoops I might be a bit skeptical! whether I would let them do it to my new kit I don't know!

[tomtomkick]

Nobody stands on my Orion Classics! At least not until I get a Mapex endorsment deal and they start giving me FREE drumkits.

[ThePloughman]

Anyone ever tries that on one of my Rogers kits, I will personally spear him with a drumstick. It will be his last time, ever.

Stupid things just shouldnt be done. Mostly, because they are stupid.

Buy him a garbage can to stand on.

[Northern Redneck]

We used to do this back in one of my old bands, I had a special reinforcment in my kick. It was just an old hockey stick wedge in the kick.

[Tadman]

That's why we built a riser for the kit. Stand on the riser, in front of the kit. Stand on my bass drum, as others have stated or hinted, maybe when there's an endorsement deal and I am awash in kits....

Also, in a music vid, even if the drum cracked, you'd stop filming, replace, and continue filming.

[backtodrum]

There is no chance of that ever happing on my kit period!

[willdrum4food]

Maybe it's just me, but I would find standing on my kit to be very insulting. To me, it almost feels like someone picking up your guitarist's axe, and just smashing it into pieces right before his very eyes (which you may think would put on a good show if you have crappy instruments you don't mind trashing at the end of a gig.) Although the the results of standing on a drumkit might not be 100% equivalent, I feel that if you don't respect my instruments, you don't respect me...which is grounds for immediate band dismissal in my eyes. Morale of the story: NOBODY STANDS ON MY KIT, EVER!!!

[2slow]

there would be some slam dancing for sure if that happed to any of my drums !!