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Whitedrummer
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I've been thinking about this for a while now. Having owned several modern kits and several vintage kits in my drumming lifetime, I've realized that both have a distinct voice and pleasureable sound. I can pretty much get any modern or vintage kit to sound good, so I started thinking why do I prefer vintage kits over modern ones and it dawned on me, it's pretty vs. cool.
I look at most modern drums as being pretty, you know with these fancy finishes that make them look like something you'd buy at a furniture store. On the other hand vintage kits,(although there were some laquer finishes), were mainly wraps. You had your sparkles, glitters, pearls, onyx, satins, or solids, and some might say they were pretty, but I say they just look cooler than modern kits. Plus the fact that a nice vintage kit will retain it's value and even go up, but you know what they say when you buy a new kit, it goes down in value as soon as you walk out the door, even the mighty DW. I've made a New Years resolution to never buy a modern kit again, to never spend $2,000 on a pretty new kit, only to get tired of it and wind up losing money selling it, when I can buy a cooler vintage kit and make money if I decide to sell.
Pretty new one.
Cooler vintage one.
I look at most modern drums as being pretty, you know with these fancy finishes that make them look like something you'd buy at a furniture store. On the other hand vintage kits,(although there were some laquer finishes), were mainly wraps. You had your sparkles, glitters, pearls, onyx, satins, or solids, and some might say they were pretty, but I say they just look cooler than modern kits. Plus the fact that a nice vintage kit will retain it's value and even go up, but you know what they say when you buy a new kit, it goes down in value as soon as you walk out the door, even the mighty DW. I've made a New Years resolution to never buy a modern kit again, to never spend $2,000 on a pretty new kit, only to get tired of it and wind up losing money selling it, when I can buy a cooler vintage kit and make money if I decide to sell.
Pretty new one.
Cooler vintage one.
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