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I tend to have a favorite album from various periods of my life. 80's - Master of Puppets 90's - Badmotorfinger 00's - Lateralus 10's - Koi No Yokan (Deftones) A few more thrown in there, but that's a pretty good representation of who I was at those stages.

I don't think we can always assume that chart rankings = $. There are so many factors such as the bands publishing deal, who wrote the songs, future licensing deals, any probably many more factors that we don't even know about. One example is the song "accidently in love" by Counting Crows...

As much thought as I put into what I wear in the morning. Im usually on stage in whatever pair of pants/band shirt I had on that day.

I would guess 20+ over the years. You name it and I have probably had it in my setup at some point. I would usually keep 1 single and 1 double pedal, buying and selling always looking for the holy grail. Much like Matt I found that I was trying to make every pedal feel like my old DW 5000, so...

Seems like we always end up at a pizza or burger joint somewhere near the club. I have played after eating crappy food, good food, no food, beer, you name it, and it really seems to make no difference. Im not playing 3 hour sets, but for the 30-45 min we play it really seems not to matter.

Wow, hello zombie thread. I actually have seen guys use them in the last couple years with varying degrees of success. I have found that they will kill the projection a bit so playing in a loud rock band in a small club they would not be optimal.

My girlfriend listens to modern pop and country and goes to a fair amount of shows to see those types of bands. When I take her to see a band I like, usually hard rock bands, where its actually just the guys on stage playing their instruments she always complains that the sound is bad. She would...

Rock n Roll. In all of the various forms it takes.

South of Heaven and Seasons were both mixed by Andy Wallace. Andy has some really cool methods of mixing snare drums that involve samples and white noise. My guess is on the studio albums there was a fair bit of studio magic happening. As for the live, drum cam stuff, my guess is he is using a...

I would say to just make the drums sound like drums. Meg White doesnt do anything special as far as drum tones, Jack just takes up so much space she doesnt need to. My only two piece was a Motorhead sounding thing with really mid-range heavy Marshall stacks. My only real concern was to get the...

Yes. I spend good money to have good gear, I expect the same out of the others I play with. And Im sorry man, your Katana doesn't sound good. Sure it makes guitar noises, buts that's all it is, a simulation. In a live situation there is no substitute for true tube distortion and moving air with...

I guess my only drum hang-up is pinstripes (or other similar heads). If I show up at a jam, or a show with a house kit, it almost always has pinstripes and it almost always sounds like shit. I am sure there are people with great sounding toms using pinstripe heads, but I have personally never...

Since the goal for most black metal recordings is to sound as bad as possible (this is not a dig, its actually the way its "supposed" to sound) I wouldnt spend too much or think too hard about it. Get a used entry level kit 5 peice kit, a double pedal (probably the only actual requirement), a...

My argument is that the bells is most churches are cast brass and they ring in all temperatures with no signifigant cracking. There are some bells that are 500 years old. So if the temperature doesnt effect 500 year old bells, my 5 year old Zildjians should be fine.

Traded a couple of cymbals and a black panther snare for this. I love the snarl SG's have, this one is a complete buzzsaw with the 59 classics in it.

I have a few of 18" crashes with cracks along the outer edge (yes I am hard on cymbals). I have been thinking about cutting them down and seeing if I can make a decent set of 16" hi-hats. These are all pro-level (AAX, HHX, A Custom) so maybe worth trying to get some life out of them. Anybody...

Charlie is a beast behind the kit, but the fact that he writes most of the Anthrax riffs puts him on another level.

Brann Dailor from Mastadon is a better drummer than most of the people on the list and has a good enough voice that he could be the front man for the band if he so desired. Not everybody's cup of tea, but to be able to sing and play the complex rhythms he is playing puts him at the top of the...

yep. my only suggestion is to set it up and play the hell out of it.

As a guitarist as well I am constantly thinking about tone. As it relates to the OP I have a Kemper lunchbox profiling amp for my bedroom and studio rig that sounds absolutely amazing in that environment, but is sucks live. For some reason profiling amps just don't have the same tone live as a...