For the musicians...

[Waifer2112]

I played a drum kit in bands for 17 years. The last one did really quite well, touring a little and filling the Bluebird, Fox, and Boulder theaters. Then I decided it wasn't going to pay the bills, so I "got a job". Then I was able to buy a house, and when things didn't go well financially at first, sold my pro DW kit (OVER 8 grand into it) for $2,000 to save my home. For the last 3 years I haven't even sat down behind a kit once.

Yesterday, I bought a new kit!! It was a real steal from Craig's list. It's only a Pacific (made by DW), but it's the LE series. 7 piece, 9 cymbals, lots of extra's. Also, the drums are perfectly mint. Still have the "all maple shells" stickers on them, even. This kit could easily sell for over $2,000 with some patience, and I got it for $1500.

So while I'm waaayyy out of practice, I can't wait for this weekend to finish setting it up, tuning it, and playing the fawk outta them!!!!


Just had to vent some happiness to the world.

[LONEWOLF]

Congrats man, have fun.

[hanksyota]

welcome back man. im playing on a 1967 Ludwig Standard and a Mapex Pro M series. the 67 is my baby. just sits. not too much playing time. the Mapex gets rocked a few times a week.

[Waifer2112]

I'm thinking, since I'm so out of practice, AC/DC Back in Black straight through might do for a start! Just to get some chops back up.

[RebelRescuer]

Oh good job!!! There's something about playing that kind of makes everything else go away.

I'm hacking away on some wicked Irish fiddle stuff right now. Jeebus, I don't think my bow is gonna survive! Is it wrong to get physically exhausted playing music?!?!?! :eek:

[LONEWOLF]

Not wrong at all thats means you rocked it

[Sound_Man]

We should talk....

[OlBlueCJ7]

Oh good job!!! There's something about playing that kind of makes everything else go away.

I'm hacking away on some wicked Irish fiddle stuff right now. Jeebus, I don't think my bow is gonna survive! Is it wrong to get physically exhausted playing music?!?!?! :eek:

Check out Ashley MacIsaac if you ever get a chance - especially his videos from his live performances. ;)

[FJBen]

I know the feeling...I haven't really "jammed" out with my electric in the full band setting a couple of years now :( I do play everynight still and the occasional solo gigs...but it's just not the same

me jammin' at a dive bar...the best kind!

10 points to whoever names the bar

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b382/FJBen/jam.jpg

[RebelRescuer]

Check out Ashley MacIsaac if you ever get a chance - especially his videos from his live performances. ;)

Holy Jeebus!! I'm watching him on youtube and he's amazing!!

Glengarry Boyhs have always been my favorite, and their old fiddler girl rocked. This new one isn't bad either!! They're amazing live and hopefully will come back to Estes in the coming years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EAXZHiCTIM&NR=1

[The Man With The Plan]

Right on! Glad to hear about a good deal like that.

[jdogg4]

I played for years. I got my first drum from my god father when I was 10 maybe who owned a music shop back east. He kept sending me all kinds of drum related stuff. A lot used but by the time I was in 9th grade I had saved up for a nicer 8 piece set then with the good items I got from my GF I had a rock?n setup. I ended up selling it a few years after I graduated high school. I gave lessons a few times a week to a few kids and then with school work and hockey just didn?t have time or a place for the drums after moving out of the folk?s house. Still wish I had that kit. From time to time I check out used sets and or electronic sets. I was always anti-electronic sets but they really have gotten better in the last 5 to 10 years, and with all the updates for sounds and stuff you can do so much more with them, and they take up less space. Then you always have the side that says it?s just fun as hell to just bang away on a set of real ones.

I had been and marks wife jam out in a garage session last summer at my BBQ. O good times plenty of beer and food even had the cops show up to that party.

[jdogg4]

I know the feeling...I haven't really "jammed" out with my electric in the full band setting a couple of years now :( I do play everynight still and the occasional solo gigs...but it's just not the same

me jammin' at a dive bar...the best kind!

10 points to whoever names the bar

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b382/FJBen/jam.jpg

that would be Rafferties SP??? always two drunk when I left that place to make out how you spell it. :beer: :beer:

[FJBen]

that would be Rafferties SP??? always two drunk when I left that place to make out how you spell it. :beer: :beer:

Rafferty's and "too drunk" :D is the correct way to spell :flipoff2: and don't get me started on your grammar

had been and marks wife jam out in a garage session...

My name is spelled "Ben" :flipoff2:

have you been drinking today?



yeah I'm usually pretty drunk at the end of playing anyways :beer:

[OlBlueCJ7]

My name is spelled "Ben" :flipoff2:

Come on, those three-letter words can be a real bitch, especially when you're from Tennessee. :D

[supremebeholder]

I'm thinking, since I'm so out of practice, AC/DC Back in Black straight through might do for a start! Just to get some chops back up.

Lateralus straight through. ;)

[starbreaker666]

I know the feeling. Sold ALL my guitars one year to provide a christmas to teh family. Only thing I have left is an Alvarez acustic and a great Marshall ValveState 8080 rotting in the garage. I wish I had all my rig back.. I'd love to gig again.

[Rimmer]

Here's an 80's moment for you


http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/Rimmer02/img010.jpg

and a more recent pic with the new drums

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y125/Rimmer02/Crossfire12-15-06024.jpg

I still have the first kit in the practice room, and the other one for shows.

Played Pearls from the beginning, i really love the sound I get out of them and wouldn't trade them for anything.

( Ok maybe some Sonors ) :)

Just got back from a show, it was supposed to be a Birthday Party for a club owner, but he was sick... so we played for the house drunks, was still a blast.

[Sound_Man]

Lateralus straight through. ;)

Don't you mean spiral out? Crazy use of math in music in that tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7CZIJVxFY One of my favorite songs of all time. Waif if you want to get back into counting what you are playing thats the tune to play. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralus

Lateralus
Black then white are all i see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see.
as below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn beyond the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition, missing opportunities and I must
Feed my will to feel my moment drawing way outside the lines.

Black then white are all i see in my infancy.
red and yellow then came to be, reaching out to me.
lets me see there is so much more and
beckons me to look thru to these infinite possibilities.
as below, so above and beyond, I imagine
drawn outside the lines of reason.
Push the envelope. Watch it bend.

over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind.
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind.
Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line.
Reaching out to embrace the random.
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come.

I embrace my desire to
I embrace my desire to
feel the rhythm, to feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
to feel inspired to fathom the power, to witness the beauty,
to bathe in the fountain,
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral
to swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human.

With my feet upon the ground I move myeslf between the sounds and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.
I'm reaching up and reaching out. I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
what ever will bewilder me.
And following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.
Spiral out. Keep going.Unless you are referring to the entire album. If thats the case I want to play damnit!!!!!

[Waifer2112]

Not yet!

I jammed to Steely Dan, Alice in Chains, and some Boz Skaggs (Jeff Porcaro!) this weekend. I started getting some of it back, but have a hard time sitting on a cheap throne for very long with a phucked up back. But I'll get back to Rush in no time, and move on from there.

Sure felt good, though!!!!

[jdogg4]

Rafferty's and "too drunk" :D is the correct way to spell :flipoff2: and don't get me started on your grammar



My name is spelled "Ben" :flipoff2:

have you been drinking today?



yeah I'm usually pretty drunk at the end of playing anyways :beer:

YES i was ok maybe not.

Come on, those three-letter words can be a real bitch, especially when you're from Tennessee. :D

marks onto something. eeeeeeeeeeeeee

[CannonBall]

Awesome, my girlfriends little brother has a pacific 5 piece that I want, he never plays it, it just collects dust and their mom hates it sitting around. I'd never consider myself a drummer, but I can keep a beat and always have fun playing. I figure with all the random instruments I collect I could just have a music room so people wouldn't need to bring instruments to rock out. I haven't played in a band since I was at the south pole, and that experience made me 100% sure I'm not cut out to be a rock star. Anyway, cool pics guys, good luck with the new kit.
-Nate

[Waifer2112]

I've got blisters on me fingers!!!


And I couldn't be happier about it!!!

:bounce4: :pbj: :silly:

[LONEWOLF]

:lmao: