Congas? What's the best?
I have a friend who has played a pair of fiberglass Tocas for several years...they're all right, but I'm with ya on the LPs. Actually, I own a pair of black fiberglass CPs which I've owned for almost 20 years...they're a little too light for my taste and have been knocked around andbattle-scarred, but sound darn good for their age.
I bought a pair of red wooden CP's a couple years ago--they're the ones I use in my church guitar group and on "professional" gigs--and I dig the way they sound indoors and out!
The one make that's surprised me is Remo. I picked up a gray Remo tumba a year ago and it really adds a lot of bottom to my playing with either CP set. (And I've gotten a lot of compliments from the guitar group since I added the Remo to the red CP's.) I like the shell design; it resembles the bed-liner in some new pickup trucks...it withstands the jolts and I like the way it sounds on slaps and rimshots...
Whoa, I want to start jammin' on those drums right now ...
keep the beat goin' ... Don't keep it to yourself!
Charlie
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
"There's a lot to be said for Time Honored tradition and value." --In memory of Frank "fiacovaz" Iacovazzi
"Maybe your drums can be beat, but you can't."--Jack Keck
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