Buddy! Amazing skill but a poopie of a person. He had a foul temper, but don't let that distract you from his playing. Wow!

I also sit up straighter for Simon Phillips, Dave Weckl, and Vinnie Colaiuta.

One more.

Neil just switched cymbal brands from Zildjian to Sabian. His Paragon cymbals should be available this month. This is a promotional picture for the new line and is probably one of the most recent pictures there is.

Good looking set up !
What do you think of Tommy Lee's ( Motely Crew) style? or Alex Van halens style?
And do you have the spinning drum cage solo when you perform?
I also like Jason Bonham , Oh and his dad wasnt to shabby

Tommy's spinning cage brought back memories of Keith Emerson's (Emerson, Lake, And Palmer} spinning grand piano. I thought both were going to loose it, but they didn't.

Alex and myself both love Paiste cymbals. At least he did last time. They're going out on tour again with Sammy so we'll see if he kept them.

I remember Jason filling his dad's drum throne at what I consider the only true Zeppelin reunion for Live Aid (I think). That night included John, the original bass player who has gone missing on all appearances since then. Very moving.

Here's my favorite Neil Pic (modern) so far:

Well, I see my friend Rod has a post here with his picture, and I've yet to meet and greet the rest of you. In keeping with the topic of the thread, I'll introduce myself and my musical instrument...

I'm Izzy, and Rod and I used to work together at this really lame second shift job. We met there and I guess it's going on about 8 years that we've known each other. I moved on to other things, but he and I have always stayed in contact and I was even in his wedding to Deb. I've been married about 2 years now, and I'm a guitarist. Here's a photo...
(I hope this shows up, not used to this sort of board)

That's an '89 Gibson Les Paul SL. That's also an old picture, taken around '99 or '00. (I can see I need to work on figuring out my profile and how to post properly, hehe... )

Anyways, greetings all!

Rod, you forgot my favorite drummer... Joey Kramer of Aerosmith. He's got some chops going for him. But of course I would say that...

(Someone should ask Rod sometime of his opinion of Max Weinberg... hehehe... that's funny)

Hey there Izzy!

Joey Kramer! There's one solid rock & roll drummer that everyone hardly notices!

Think about it. Can you remember what he looks like?

Well, that must be what spurred on the custom bass drum heads. I remember the one he had on Saturday Night Live. Ya hoo!

You know, I should have included you in the "Musical Buddies" thread. I didn't think about it until I saw the picture. In all this time this is a first. We're registered on the same form!

Hahaha, that's true, never thought of that! It's cool we can both be on a forum now.

And Yep, Joey always had some wild custom bass drum heads. The one that sticks out in my mind is from the "Pump" tour, he had a drum head that was painted with the girl from the "Love in an Elevator" album single cover... she was basically just painted from the waist up, in an elevator, with this guy with big buggy eyes looking at her. She had just two tassles placed rather strategically, and when he hit the first note of the song the tassles would fly off the drumhead... leaving little to the imagination, LOL!

He had another with a painting of his face superimposed over a circus sideshow guy, stretching out his cheeks to about 5 or six inches... that may be the one you're thinking of from SNL. He used that one on the "Get a Grip" tour.

Check out Joey at Joey Interview, Pics, at Drummerworld.com


If you go to the bottom of the page, you can see his latest drum head from the "Just Push Play" tour.

Of course, everyone knows who my main influence is...

Good ol' Joe!

I hadn't heard about the gas station incident. Scary!

I'm going back out in a little bit. I have the drumset unloaded but I haven't put anything together yet.

Tell 'ya what. I'll take the little spy camera with me and post some pictures of the "erector set" going together.

Well, It's all together and ready to go. First I had to bring in the gear. Three trips with the cart. So cool!

Then time to start unloading the stuff out of it's cases.

They usually leave me a open slot big enough to fit in, if I'm lucky. I start with the bass drum to locate the center of the set, more or less.

Then the foundation goes up. The rack system that everything mounts too.

Then all the individual holders clamp on and the mounted drums go in place.

Then it's time to attach the cymbals and position the microphones.

And it's ready for the show!

I hope the gig went well. Wish I could hear you guys Live someday.....hey Deb, we got a visitor......LOL, that would be funny.

That would be!

Deb's back keeps her away from most of my gigs but she does venture out to a few. This gig went OK. Strange crowd. We were mostly ignored until the end.

Oh, and the fog machine was set up and placed where it pretty much blasted me first before it spread out around the stage. Jerry said "Looks like someone's blowing smoke up your @$$"!

Ah, a gig and I missed it, had to work. Well, the first real paycheck will be coming in, so you're going to have to let me know when you guys are playing next. That way when my wife and I get some cash we can come see you... if I don't work that night.

The drumset looks cool, just like I remember it, and a lot better than the little kit I have for backup drummers.

Here's the guitar I want to get once I can get the money together... but that may be a few paychecks,

Izzy's Dream Guitar

Hey, if I come see you at a gig, maybe I can hop up there before the show and you and I can warm the audience up a bit with "Walk This Way", we jammed that pretty well together when you were out here at my place wailing on the drums here. After the band starts though, forget it, I'm going to grab a few cold ones and kick back, hehe...

Izzy the Overnight Rocker