Our son is upstairs currently strumming at his guitar, then he decides to come down and demonstright :sp: how hes going to be a rock star. I dont think so on his basic equipment.

I'm pretty good at the radio, CD player and back in the day I played a good 8 track but I never could play any real instruments.
I hope your son has a good time with his guitar even if he never makes it big in the music world.

My daughter says she saw a 8 track tape in an antique store once.

Hey Elvis got started some where too!

Tell him he can be a rock star if he stays in school and gets good grades... and does the dishes

What's an 8 track?

Hearty-har-har

Bryan, If you are serious you need to do some research. You need to know were it all started.

Well no takers so I'll tell you all my instrumental history. Started with good ol nasty voice then moved to piano, Got so tired of my mom forcing me to Practice, Practice, Practice. So I gave it up. Moved to the flute in J. High, but you know what I found out that all the girls wanted to play the flute so for two years I was one of thirteen flute players. Mind you our J. High band was about only 30 some kids I gave in for a while. Started high school and wanted to be in band and have fun with my brother and his groupies so I played the cybols. It was such a challenge. I finched out my instermental carerr as a French Horn player. Loved it then. Cant remember a thing about it now, so back to the piano I have returned. And I still stink at it.

I was a groupie?

Not the band bunch of groupies, but I guess you were a party hardy groupie.

I was into rock music back in school. I could bang two rocks together and sometimes I didn't hurt my fingers.

Cute, LOL

Iíve been at this a looooong time. My dad played as well and bought me all the toy drums I could stand. Itíll never make me rich but I have some great moments to recall. Iíve been on a few recordings, did a commercial for Purina, taught a little, and even opened for Charlie Daniels. What fun!

Ooo la, la

Told yah all, he's a hottie

<sorry Deb (the wife)>

And, he's a nice guy....so there you go!!!

People's gonna think I got a sunburn from all this blushin'!

Vinyl is where its at! I use vinyl everyday!



-Mark

Along time ago I played the flute and saxophone.

I played the sax as well. Mine broke and it was going to cost to much to fix so I haven't played since. I miss playing.

A SL1200. Cool. I have a Dual 550 back in the other room. Lots of vinyl around here still.

I only wish I had those...SL1200MK5G....I have Stanton STR8-100's.

I'm trying to get 1200s


^^My Decks

-Mark

I used to sell SL1200MK-II's and Denon's. I think we had some Stanton come through, too. Lots of ATUS as well. Lots of fun getting them to work on old floors with a lot of traffic!

Just yesterday I stopped off at the music store in town (which is owned by the lead singer in my band) and saw this cart in the middle of the floor. I knew he had bought it a long time ago when we hosted that Colgate talent show contest thing to move big equipment by himself. I haven't seen it since.

These things are radically expensive and I haven't seen him use it in... Forever. So I shot him a deal (cheap deal) and he took it! Wow! Now I have a legendary multi-cart!

Looks like I can take my entire drumset from car to stage in three trips! So cool!

Awesome those things are handy to have for other things besides drums too.

yeah cool, I think I need one too, could move lots of stuff in a short period of time.

You done good

wouldnt a pack mule of worked better , one trip then
I think thats what Neil Pert uses , but doesnt he have like 4 pack mules for his ensomble?

I already have two to feed now!

Actually Neil has lightened up a bit. This is him on the last night of their last tour.

This, to him, is small!

where is his gong and those brass tubes at ?

Now you've gone and got me all nostalgic! He triggers those sounds electronically from the xylophone-like controller on his left. But I remember the old days...

You worked hard for percussion then!

I used to play stage drums in 7th grade, but moved out of state for my 8th grade year , and they only had snare drum in their band class, so i quit playing.
I had a friend that had a set of drums and I sat down to play( 19 years ago) and found out my hands still worked but both feet wanted to do the same beat , couldnt make my feet do different beats on the hihats and tom tom..LOL
I could still play wipe out , hawaii 5 O theme but that was all .

It took me a while to convince people I actually had a set. Then when they caught on they'd ask the number one question...

"Are you any good?"

Sheesh. That's best left for you to decide. Not me.

I remember when I was young, my mom would always let me stay up late when Johnny Crason would have Buddy Rich on, as he always played on his show, Johnny wasnt to shabby either.

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!