Larry
"Uncle Larry"
I have to say, it's very curious to me how non endorsed musicians tend to align themselves with a certain brand of drums, cymbals, heads, sticks...I do it to, I'm not immune, but just today I imagined a scenario....forget the logistics, just debating the principle...what if there were no such things as individual brands. No badges. No company name to root our drums in. You go to a music store and there are NO BRANDS, just the gear. No brands. Hard to imagine. How would people act??
We would have to buy with our ears and eyes only, not our preconcepted mind.
It's a very freeing thought. So many people spend so much energy aligning themselves with a certain company. If there were no companies or brand names...how would that affect the people who are buying this stuff?
To me it's like Lennon trying to expound the thought of no possession. I have a hard time imagining it. I'm just trying to tease out a certain ingrained behavior pattern that is the basis for all of our drum gear opinions. I have to wonder how that would affect the conversations we have here if there were zero drum brands. We wouldn't know where they were manufactured, there would be no advertisements, just a store where you go and buy brandless stuff.
I don't think it would succeed, because we are so conditioned into feeling all protective over a company that makes stuff we need and use. I don't know that people would be ready to let all that go. Sadly...in a certain sense...we are brainwashed into debating with one another over a certain companies attributes as it compares to another company. It's really all wrong. It's not about the companies, it's about drumming, music, life.
So this would be a pretty open ended discussion that I would really like to hear some opinions about.
Thanks.
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We would have to buy with our ears and eyes only, not our preconcepted mind.
It's a very freeing thought. So many people spend so much energy aligning themselves with a certain company. If there were no companies or brand names...how would that affect the people who are buying this stuff?
To me it's like Lennon trying to expound the thought of no possession. I have a hard time imagining it. I'm just trying to tease out a certain ingrained behavior pattern that is the basis for all of our drum gear opinions. I have to wonder how that would affect the conversations we have here if there were zero drum brands. We wouldn't know where they were manufactured, there would be no advertisements, just a store where you go and buy brandless stuff.
I don't think it would succeed, because we are so conditioned into feeling all protective over a company that makes stuff we need and use. I don't know that people would be ready to let all that go. Sadly...in a certain sense...we are brainwashed into debating with one another over a certain companies attributes as it compares to another company. It's really all wrong. It's not about the companies, it's about drumming, music, life.
So this would be a pretty open ended discussion that I would really like to hear some opinions about.
Thanks.
202020202020202020 (First known use of 2020 with a post that is way over 20 characters)