What is the strangest damping you have seen on a snare?
I have just returned from a day at the Marciac Jazz Festival in France and had an eye opening experience.
After lunch we were going to sit at one of the outdoor cafes to watch a band covering the lunch break. They sounded really good, especially the drummer, and as I walked past them I gave his kit the usual once over. A lovely Yamaha SC, one up one down, and as he was playing I noticed a splash cymbal placed on his snare, I presume to dampen it as they were playing fairly quietly. This, not surprisingly, left little room to hit the head, but he was playing superb jazz, comping and fills etc.
The band are called The Edmund Bilal Band and they play 90% original material. Sax, drums, bass, guitar and keys and they are all excellent musicians playing complex Weather Report type stuff, amongst other styles.
But here is the thing as we got more and more into the band, and me particularly enjoying this very good drummer, he took the cymbal off the snare between songs and replaced it with the bass players rubber flip flop !!!!!!!!
He still sounded great and continued his effortless playing.
Anyone else got any strange, to me at least, damping/drum equipment stories?
I have just returned from a day at the Marciac Jazz Festival in France and had an eye opening experience.
After lunch we were going to sit at one of the outdoor cafes to watch a band covering the lunch break. They sounded really good, especially the drummer, and as I walked past them I gave his kit the usual once over. A lovely Yamaha SC, one up one down, and as he was playing I noticed a splash cymbal placed on his snare, I presume to dampen it as they were playing fairly quietly. This, not surprisingly, left little room to hit the head, but he was playing superb jazz, comping and fills etc.
The band are called The Edmund Bilal Band and they play 90% original material. Sax, drums, bass, guitar and keys and they are all excellent musicians playing complex Weather Report type stuff, amongst other styles.
But here is the thing as we got more and more into the band, and me particularly enjoying this very good drummer, he took the cymbal off the snare between songs and replaced it with the bass players rubber flip flop !!!!!!!!
He still sounded great and continued his effortless playing.
Anyone else got any strange, to me at least, damping/drum equipment stories?