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So this is from last Saturday playing a popular KISS tune. Since I’m running at 50%, it’s amazing to see how hard I’m not playing!

So I did a gig with this new head and I have to say, I like it. I’ve never played one before (after all these years), and I was pleasantly surprised. The coated head was thick enough and with those little vent holes, the drum did sound a little dryer which was what I needed. So I got a nice...

Had some fun with the band playing Thin Lizzy's The Boys are Back in Town - and in true rock n roll fashion I decided that more is, well, MORE - and couldn't stop doing the obnoxious and cliche'd triplets during the ending guitar solo. The audience was dancing and having fun and I think the...

Since the new band has me playing out at least once a week - I’m changing heads a bit sooner. I’m going back to Evans this round (I’ll switch out in 6 weeks or so). Ironically, I swore I’d go back to Remo, but when I did, I was still getting heads that weren’t consistent. Every now and then...

I’ve been collecting Roland pads to use with my TD-10 VDrum module (it currently serves as a MIDI sound source for my Zendrum) so I can have a basic eKit to play in my new house quietly and was wondering if it mattered which hi-hat control pedal I got for it. Roland has quite a few and I see a...

Ugh! Felt like such a schlub for tonight’s gig! I pack everything in the truck and head down the road for the hour drive to the gig and 20 minutes into the drive I realize “I forgot to pack my bass drum mic”. I debate if I should turn around and go back to get it, but realize I packed two...

If anybody knows this info, I’d appreciate it: I have a double tom bass drum mount with a 1” downtube. Can the Gibraltar 6710 cymbal stand base (the part with the legs) accept 1” tubes? It’s a little unclear how they word it on their website so if anyone has experience with this stand, I...

I have hard cases for all my drums that I’ve collected over the years (a mix of Humes&Berg and SKB) but I’ve never gotten a 18” floor tom case because it’s not a constant drum I’m always using - in a pinch I can go out with just the 16” which makes life easier. But since I have this Rogers...

So after my inaugural first two gigs with the new band, I’ve decided to go back to one rack tom - on a snare stand no less! (Using a snare stand let’s me drop the tom even lower and it sings better floating on that Yamaha soft rubber in the basket). When I saw myself playing with the band...

So I installed Ludwig Atlas mounts on my Rogers toms, and then took them out to a gig. I think the environmental conditions may have messed them up (on Friday I hauled the drums and set them up on an outdoor stage in 113-degree heat, and by the time we started playing it cooled to an almost...

Did my official second gig with the Durty Watur Band at a bar & grill in Lake Forest and put the camera house right and pointed it me (the first gig the night before, although great, involved 115-degree heat during set-up, and 100-degree heat when we started three hours later - I wasn’t going to...

First gig tonight with the new band, but I also received the needed parts to replace the Memriloc tom holder and decided to rush to put them on, and took them to the gig to see how they hold up. Instant gratification! However, you have to tighten the ball arms down super tight - tighter than...

And IT WORKS! All my life I always took extra care tuning my floor toms, working hard to get a nice deep tone. When I saw Rob Browns' video on how to tune up a drum, I just sat there and did it, and he was right! I had an acceptable floor tom sound in literally seconds! All he did was loosen...

Although I do have designated bands and projects I'm involved with, I do still meet with new people just to play together to see if there's a future match in there somewhere. Today was sorta amusing and terrifying at the same time. I played with punk rockers in my age range (late-50s to...

After a few weeks of discussion and playing, and now that the band has let go of it’s old drummer, I am the “new guy” in the band. Significant to me is that these guys are actually booked somewhere every weekend and they’ve filled all of my weekends at least until January 2025 (sometimes...

I had to do it - I love the Memriloc stuff but after 50 years, the floor tom legs no longer lock in place vertically due to the memory lock piece on the leg. So I found the new Rogers parts that retrofit and got six new brackets and six new hex legs. And they are a perfect fit! The new parts...

My black Rogers coming out for some rehearsal: 13/16/22 with the 6.5 Supra. As much as I love having six drums and four cymbals, four drums and two cymbals are really enough sometimes.

I had the opportunity to do sound for a local bar band at a restaurant (I didn't tell the drummer - nor the band - that I also played drums. I figure they didn't need to know that since my role is primarily to get them to sound good) and I made a shocking discovery: you need experience to know...

I have two complete sets of Rogers Big R Memriloc floor tom brackets, legs, and memory locks. So six total - three per drum. $250 per set and I’ll even ship them to you for free (within the US). Let me know if you need them - these are in great shape for close to 50 years old!