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Mostly. Tom and bass drum purchased new in 1960. Floor tom added in 1962. Original cymbals not in this picture but still used for jazz gigs with this and another kit. Original snare and hardware long gone.

I also chart by hand in an abbreviated big band style and save in pdf format. All are a single page. In the past 17 years I have collected almost 650 charts and would be happy to share them with you at no cost. PM me if you are interested.

What's better than a band with two drummers? A band with SIX drummers. Especially when they are all well-known in the jazz/funk community. Marcus Pope is a local, Huntsville AL, drummer who owns and operates Pope's School of Percussion and also records in Nashville and Muscle Shoals...

I have a pair and the sound is very good, close to my custom molded UE5s, but the seal is critical. If not sealed properly, they don't have any bass and no volume. I went through four different TYPES (not sizes) of tips before finding one that worked for me. Your description sounds like my...

I use a Gibraltar SC-PUGC multi-clamp to mount my TD-17 to the hihat. 1-1/2 years on my well used home practice kit and no problems.

Get the Gretsches, play them for a while, then decide which ones are keepers.

Recently quit my blues gig to return to small group jazz and decided to up my Latin game, which was mediocre at best. My original intent was simply to improve my skills for use at gigs and jam sessions. After a couple of weeks on YouTube looking at examples, it became apparent that the only...

If an acoustic is too loud, you want a more realistic sound than mesh or muffled heads and low volume cymbals, but you don't like the form factor of less expensive electronic kits, you can do a simple conversion of a cheap beater acoustic kit to electronic with electronic cymbals. Great sound...

At church we use Behringer personal mixers that have a limiter. Most other venues the sound man gives me a standard XLR monitor feed and I run it through a small Fischer IEM amplifier that I wear on my belt. It can take line levels for a passive or active monitor and has a limiter plus volume...

Another happy user of UE5s. I play a lot of big band and getting any sort of good mix in a live situation is a pipe dream, but I can't always hear everything in larger venues. I got my UE5s with an ambient port, which lets me hear the brass and rhythm sections. Putting only the saxes and...

Guitar/ drums duo works better than some might expect. I worked with a guitar player for 9 years and we did a lot of our gigs as a duo - blues, rockabilly and Wes Montgomery style jazz. It just took good song selection and a lot of practice time initially figuring out how to fill up the bottom...

You got to be kidding! I removed the T-rods from all of my vintage bass drums! I'm done with... Spending hours to get all of my bass drum lugs tuned to the exact same pitch, putting the drum in its case, and getting to the gig to find all of the T-rods parallel to the hoop and the drum out of...

I'm done playing rock and blues. Just tired of playing the same old songs with the same guys at the same bars. My playing is now limited to church and jazz. At church we do different songs every week and one is usually new. Most of my jazz gigs are in a house band for jam sessions or subbing...

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20+ years with never a problem selling stuff on eBay, Reverb in the earlier days, and on other drum forums.

They were the only hickory sticks I used, only with the blues band. Managed to find 6 pairs about a year ago, then quit the blues band to focus on jazz (sugar maple only).

Special Edition Artwood maple, 13x7. Originally came with black hardware, which is not quite appropriate for a really old guy playing jazz. Door prize at a drum clinic. My go to bebop snare.

The guys I play with want to trade fours on 75% of the songs if playing as a trio or quartet, regardless of venue. Quintet or larger is usually up to me. Vocals, hardly ever.

I always use a visual metronome app to count off songs and monitor our tempo during a song. I also use charts for big band or notes for church, so I have a record of our normal tempos for all songs. If someone complains about a tempo, I slow it down or speed it up as requested and then go back...

If cost is an issue, you might consider an A2E conversion. This conversion cost me around $1200 for mesh heads, external triggers, a used TD-17 module and Lemon cymbals. The conversion was simple and reversible, taking less than 8 hours. Before the conversion, I was a verified ekit hater...