Chit Chat 6

[Frantic Freddie]

nice looking snare Freddie 14X 4 inch ?
i like the deeper sound of wood and a 5 inch deep ,but you can't argue about taste

pitty our (used to) bass player lives in Thailand now

14x5,my one wood snare is 14x4 & the other is an old Ludwig Acrolite (aluminum shell). I'd like to buy an '80s Ludwig split-shell,they don't make 'em anymore but I loved the sound,they come up on eBay sometimes,but of course it's always when I'm broke

No prob,Yvonne I've run into "musicians" who claim to have played with this or that famous musician,they're always full of something...south end of a bull...something. Got 2 stories about that.....

One was a guy I met at the Molly's jam session,said he'd played with Frank Zappa & was lookin' for a gig. I looked at him & said "If you're good enough to have played with Zappa,why are you lookin' for a gig here in Bumfark,New Mexico? Why ain't you workin' the LA studios for big money?". He just walked off. I'd heard him play earlier & he was OK,but nowhere near Zappa's standard.

This is a good one Coupla years ago,playin' a local place,this guy had the audacity to claim,after he'd told me his name,that he was the drummer who'd played "In-a-gadda-da-vida".
That really set me off.

Me "(insert bad word)!!! I know the drummer's name & I know what he looks like! You ain't him! People* like you make me wanna puke, I'm onto you jerkface*, you picked the wrong guy to peddle your nonsense* to, I know too much"**

He took one more sip of his beer & quietly turned & left. As soon as he got out the door the bartender & some other people thanked me, he'd been obnoxious but not enough to throw him out.

*not the real words
**in fact, a highly edited version of what I really said, seein'as this is a family forum....

[Yvonne]

I wish I was as wonderful as I think I am Yvonne

You are wonderful too Freddie...
Love to read the stuff you write

Reading back I see that my comment looks weird I was commenting on the edit reason from OneBun but I probably should have been more clear in my post

[old biker]

nice looking snare Freddie 14X 4 inch ?
i like the deeper sound of wood and a 5 inch deep ,but you can't argue about taste

pitty our (used to) bass player lives in Thailand now

[Frantic Freddie]

I wish I was as wonderful as I think I am Yvonne

[Yvonne]

No need to impress us dear....we know how wonderful you are

[OneBun]

OMB, someone stop him he is trying to go on vacation...

.... OMG that was too funny!

Nice Snare Freddie!

[Frantic Freddie]

Remember that most sets come with crappy heads,you'll wanna change 'em out (both top & bottom) to get a good sound.I'm partial to Remo,but Evans & Aquarian make good ones too.

You should get back into it,it's damn fun & they say us old farts (I'm 3 years older than you kid ) benefit from exercising our brains.

Speakin' of double bass,that's something I never got into.Too much stuff to carry,takes up too much room on stage & not suitable for a lot of music.
Havin' said that,here's my cool story: I studied under a guy who'd studied under Louie Bellson (Louie invented the double bass) & I asked him what good double bass was? He told me he'd asked Louie the same question & he replied "Well,it's good for solos,accents & looks good on stage.Other than that it's useless."

Several years later I met Louie at a drum clinic & told him I'd studied under Skip & he said "Then you must be a really good drummer" .Louis was a true gentleman.

My other brushes with fame include playing for the Hager Twins,renting my set to Scott Rockenfield & playing with Sonny West at the '07 Clovis Music Festival.

This is my main snare,a Ludwig Hammered Bronze Supraphomic 400 hotrodded with brass-plated die-cast rims,brass tube lugs & Puresound snares.When there's a jam session I always get asked to bring it

[old biker]

awesome ,a Ludwig of my birthdate
Haven't played in 28 years ,and i think i lost the skills and speed. But lately it starts to itch again, cause old friends i used to jam with, started to play again.
So i'm thinking about buying a set again and see how it goes
i like this one http://www.musicstore.com/nl_NL/BEF/...DRU0026303-000
or to start with http://www.2dehands.be/muziek/muziek...%2Fdrumstellen
need to hear the sound first

[Yvonne]

Oh boy, do we have to rename this thread into the "drums talk chat" ?
Don't mind me....just chatter away....I love to read all this stuff

[Frantic Freddie]

Modding when he has a bike and New Mexico to roam around????? he would be biking all day and playing drums at night...nah, no vacations for him...grin

Wait,you play drums old biker??? We must talk drums & music,I've played for 40 years,have 3 sets currently,one of them a rare 1959 Ludwig in Black Galaxy finish

[Chocbubbles]

Go biker go!

[Yvonne]

[Kzin]

OMB, someone stop him he is trying to go on vacation

[Yvonne]

[Kzin]