DangerousDave
Senior Member
I was just reading a thread that Joey Kramer moved to Pearl.
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Why do we get so excited when a drummer changes a product company? Is it the same way with the guitarists, keyboard players, trumpet players?
Are we so lost in the sea of marketing that we live through the players we admire and some of us even call our idols? If we use products they use are we instantly gonna be like them if not better? I highly doubt you're gonna manage to keep time on ie. STAR kit if you can't do it on some crappy set (or anything really).
Do we really need some kind of approval for using our gear? (If person x uses it then it must be great.)
And what's the deal with 'the definitives' and 'the absolutes'? Stuff like 'I always use this and that' and 'I never do this', 'You have to do it like this'...
Now another thing came to my mind. Must be the act of ego. Why are most of the people always saying 'My Tama Starclassic Maple Absolute Reference 145.4 plies with 67° back-cut...'.
When someone asks for an advice ie. on plumbing, do you go 'On my 119m2 double layered brick wall house surrounded with a nickeled wired fence on three sides I use standard green plastic tubes'?
Not trying to offend anyone, just writing some thoughts that came to my mind.
Feel free to join in...
Why do we get so excited when a drummer changes a product company? Is it the same way with the guitarists, keyboard players, trumpet players?
Are we so lost in the sea of marketing that we live through the players we admire and some of us even call our idols? If we use products they use are we instantly gonna be like them if not better? I highly doubt you're gonna manage to keep time on ie. STAR kit if you can't do it on some crappy set (or anything really).
Do we really need some kind of approval for using our gear? (If person x uses it then it must be great.)
And what's the deal with 'the definitives' and 'the absolutes'? Stuff like 'I always use this and that' and 'I never do this', 'You have to do it like this'...
Now another thing came to my mind. Must be the act of ego. Why are most of the people always saying 'My Tama Starclassic Maple Absolute Reference 145.4 plies with 67° back-cut...'.
When someone asks for an advice ie. on plumbing, do you go 'On my 119m2 double layered brick wall house surrounded with a nickeled wired fence on three sides I use standard green plastic tubes'?
Not trying to offend anyone, just writing some thoughts that came to my mind.