Recent content by Tony Trout

When I was three years old, I lost my wonderful father to a massive heart attack while he was behind the wheel of the tractor-trailer he drove for a trucking company out of Georgia. I first learned to play drums at a very early age - around 6, if that's considered early, and I learned from the...

Not bad. Not perfect but.....not awful either.

OMG!!!! :eek: It's a dream of mine to own a kit like that.....except, I want to recreate down to the last detail the gorgeous blue sparkle Ludwig double-kick (with concert toms) kit that my drumming idol, Ronnie Tutt, used from the Fall of 1970 to around the same time frame in '74 when he...

With this having been the 50th anniversary of what became Elvis Presley's 32nd film, "Elvis: That's The Way It Is", I'm listening to the rehearsals that led up to those performances that were filmed & recorded from August 10-13, 1970. The rehearsals ran from July 14, 1970 to August 10, 1970...

Beautiful kit!!!

I don't use anything but Pro-Mark sticks (7A - New Generation II) because they are light in my hands when I'm playing and I can move around my drum kit pretty well. (I know that sounded like a really, really dumb answer but......I don't know how to answer questions like these)...

Personally, I think that concert toms look flippin' cool and I would love to have a set that had them.....particularly, a replica of the blue sparkle Ludwig kit (with concert toms) that the legendary Ronnie Tutt used from around September, 1970 to the same time period in '74 before he switched...

Personally, I'm not fond of the "Snom" drums. If I wanted another floor tom, that's what I'd use them for.....just my opinion, of course.

I would love to be in the 1970-1973 era of Elvis Presley's touring band and be Ronnie Tutt. After '73, though, things started sliding downhill......:(

It's definitely a lot friendlier and I like the new "look" to the forums, Bernhard! Great job!

Big DW fan here (and not because my all-time favorite drummer, Ronnie Tutt, plays them). The DW's just seem to have a lot more "punch" to them than Pearl. I don't know why that is but, that's one of the reasons I like DW.

I've been playing drums since I was around 7 or 8 but I've never been able to use my left foot & my right foot together. I guess it's mostly due to having mild Cerebral Palsy - but the latter (keeping time with my left foot) is something I've tried and I just can't do it.

Elvis's former and Neil Diamond's current(?) drummer is 80 today!!! Although he's probably more "known" as "Elvis's drummer" I'm sure he has fans out there who know that he's worked with Neil since 1981. Happy birthday, Ronnie! May it be an awesome day for you!! (I know he won't read...

I know he's just a kid but has anybody here heard of Avery Molek, the 11-year-old drummer from Pennsylvania???? I've known about him since first seeing him with Brad Paisley on "GMA" (via YouTube) and I've followed his progress and this kid is absolutely more amazing every time I hear him & he...

....I need some ideas on how much space I'll need for it. I know a couple of players who have built their own kits from stuff bought off of Ebay or from drum stores (Brad Swiger & Udo Masshoff - they're both FB friends of mine) and I'm badly wanting to replicate their setup - but I am going to...