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we just plug ours in and let him get on with it. Best thing is, he never complains, misses beats, breaks a stick or shags either of our wives ;0)

You still using tree trunks Wick?

Drum kits are great as clothes airers.

Apparently you can get them made out of lots of different woods and stuff. Clothes airers I mean.

I once found a ladybird in my 12" tom. It gave my guitarist the idea to turn a vistalite kit into an ant farm but the ants hid in the middle and I couldn't lift the big one that lies down on the floor (guitarist I mean).

Awww Wick. Didn't mean to offend your sensibilities. Just a bit too heavy for my delicate touch lol

Don has 18lb sledgehammers pounded into the shape of drumsticks. He then proceeds to rim shot the fuck out of everything and grind our ears to powder.

the big one that lies on the floor is fer stickin logo's on n the thin one has strings so that must be the part that makes it into an instrument ;-)

It's 24 inch !!!!
pmsl

lol @ Mick, I love dons drumming, he's like Mr cool hard rock himself ! only person ive seen usin' thick end !

For the record I use size 5A squeaky mallets with the plastic tips. I tried the wooden tipped ones but my band band mates took umbridge when I "comedy brained" them mid gig.

Some folk have no sense of humour.

The pink ones, I find, give the best resonance and sustain. I tried writing "vic firth" on them but it didn't make any difference to their tone.

And I very definitely use the thick end....only way to blummin get heard.

Traditional or matched grip? Here's Buddy Rich's thoughts on the matter...

Our lad just plays the hard-cases!.........we can't remember where he left the round things wi' see-through plastic on 'em!......rock 'n' roll!

I tried metal sticks with wooden cymbals for a while. At least you didn't have to ponce about handling your pies with bits of cloth and torn up T-shirts and worry about getting finger prints on them. The splinters were a real hazard though. Had to wear safety glasses and gardening gloves.

Ours just hits them hard. Isn't that all there is to it?

Check out this vid of us the other week doing one of our original tunes - he hit it so hard to tom fell off and the bassist and I didn't even notice! only clocked it when I put the video together!

Hard? Hard? That's tickling that is! I reckon the tom was trying to commit suicide out of shame of both being of the "concert" genus and of being fondled by long haired lover with a penchant for wood in his hands and pink blankets.

Haha it's actually a pink jumper but he does like a bit of wood in his hands. Perhaps not the finest song to have chosen to demonstrate him twatting all hell out of them but its the only song the tom fell off in!

And concert genus? Maybe its coz its late at night but you'll have to explain that one...

They're concert toms - single headed - much beloved of Phil Collins and his ilk in the 70's and now almost universally loathed for their lack of tone and resonance. They're great to record with but shite live (unless mic'ed and processed to death).

Oops, came close to a sensible drummer type comment.....I must atone by sticking my 7A's up my nose and, in true Blackadder style, muttering "wibble" for a while to restore the balance.

@ Wick....."wibble"

@ tubthumper-take those underpants off your head-they're fooling no-one-over the top with you!! lol!! :-P
@ 45's................................."wibble"............ with pencils!!! ;-D

Anyone fancy a cup of trench tea? I've got Baldrick's recipe....

BLOGJACK!!!! -yayy!! haven't had a good "blogjack" for ages!!! :D.........................now........i have a cunning plan.............................................:-D

why-thank you, ayp-that's sweet of you! (is it shaped like a ...........?!) ;-D

I wish I'd have known we were going to be having a good ole blogjack - I'd have got extra turnips in specially and maybe even nipped out to Mrs Miggins' pie shop.

@tubthumper- the turnips-are they shaped like ..........???? because two things must ye know about "extra turnips"-one ............. they be "extra" and two-they be....................................turnips!!!!! ;-P

It's shaped like a "thingy".

I'm making "Turnip Surprise" with it.

......and Al, everyone knows Nursey is a mad old woman with an udder complex......mooooooooooooooo

@ tubthumper-"thingy"? heh heh !! that sounds a bit like ................."thingy"!!!! heh heh heh!!

Viking, are you secretly the wise woman? Cos there are 2 things yee be knowing about the wise woman....

@ tubthumper- yeah, yeah - one- she be....wise!! and two she be ...................a WOMAN!!!!

i'm not a tourist. y'know!!! ;-P

@alyerpal- "bob"?-doing bishop of bath and wells type moves with lord flashheart's thingy, i don't doubt!! :-P

Drums?? Pah... Willies!

Want one!

@ johnny meerkat--"willies"????? heh heh heh!! that sounds a bit like ....."willies" - *snigger* !!!!! ;-P

I have a cunning plan, I'm going to master the ancient art of alchemy and turn my old drum sticks into gold.....and failing that, green. I think there's a market for jewellry that looks like snot....

Tell me, brother Baldrick, what exactly did God do to the Sodomites?
"I dunno, but I can't imagine it was worse than what they used to do to each other."

Are you sure that was Baldrick Brother Texticle? It sounds a bit too intelligent for a man with a penchant for running into fists....Are you coming over all Mrs Malaprop?

@ tubthumper-go easy on the dude....he's fresh from "sillyconin his shower" - don't forget-it can take a guy some time to get his thoughts together after one of those!!! :-D

and @ tex- god didn't do anything to the sodmites.................................................he couldn't be arsed!! ;-P

wibble

@ 45's - " I used to be a woman once ..................... or was it twice, lol"

depends on whether it's a bank holiday weekend or not, doesn't it, SURELY ????!!! ;-P

@ tubthumper-"wibble"?-heh heh heh!!! sounds a bit like ...."wibble"!!!! ;-D

Nob (Knob)

noun,

verb, knobbed, knob·bing.noun.........AYCBAP


:-)

I'm only on here coz theres nowt i want from argos !!!

@johnny meerkat- "nob(knob)".... snigger!!! that sounds a bit like........ NOB(KNOB)!!!!!! snigger!!!;-P

I reckon AYCBAP has a cunning plan............so cunning you could cut your toenails with it..........he's amassing CRP points at our expense thinking it's a euphemism for "can't really participate".

touche ;-)

Heard you the first time :-| (do you get CRP's fer a stutter??

And as by magic!
lol :0)

nnnnnnnot sure you can get it up?

nnnnnnnever comfortable being on top?

nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaughty.......soooooo very naughty?

I like to set my kit up in a 2 up one down formation and usually have my ride over my floor tom but lately I've been thinking of adopting a more minimalist style and having one up one down and my ride more ergonomically positioned between rack and floor tom.



Of course since I carved my kit out of turnips it's all academic as it sounds shit. I just always wanted a set of drums made from Evans EQ turnips shaped like thingies.



Wibble

2 up n ride over yer floor, one up, one down, ergonomically positioned between rack and Tom ?
I've led a sheltered life!!!!
who's Tom anyhow ???

Wobble!

hold on ........ he didn't actually hit it did he??? It just fell off???

I blame the roadie

or the drummer

if he doesn't have a roadie


p.s. if it's any consolation the song didn't suffer for lack of tonal drumming .....

:0)

"Traditional or matched grip? Here's Buddy Rich's thoughts on the matter..."

i bet a fiver someone can play EXACTLY what that guy plays with his grip, with a whatever he said the other grip was "for timpani" .............. matched??

oh yes i bet ,,,,,,

no postal orders please

My thoughts exactly Wilbur. And since he was the meanest mo-fo drummer ever I don't give a witches tit what he thought about grips. He just looks like he's in a fecking drumming race - what's musical about what he does.

Mean nasty diva drummer