you know, I don't listen to King Crimson.
I happen to find enjoyment in the Japanese woodblock printing as well as the Russian balet. Or the döner kebab cuisine of Germany, or the American jazz music of the early 20th century. Etc.
I used to play all kinds of percussion in an afrobeat band along with a drumset player and other percussionists. Never had a problem with drums not fitting in with aux percussion. Sometimes we had up to 20 people on stage playing. It was a great experience!
I also don't really make any kind of decisions based on marketing.
In fact I consider marketing to be a good thing, since it exposes products to the public and to the players, and we can then use our own judgement to make decisions based on what is best for us in the situation we are in.
In the end, all you are doing is making assumptions, and those assumptions actually tell more about you than anything else.
But this is kind of fun, tho
I think the Venn Diagram of 'human' and 'listens to King Crimson' is small as well. I was using them as an example of instruments sounding hugely different
even in the same band but our new troll SmoothOperator doesn't seem to quite get it.
SmoothOperator, you are making a lot of presumptions regarding the individual tastes of members here. I listen to Onkyokei, Noise, Rock, Post-Rock, Baroque, Indian Classical, 20th-Century Classical, IDM, Electronica, Glitch and just about anything else that interests me. I don't look at 'drums', I look at different rhythmic tools, with drums just being one example.
With that said, you'll often find that the sound set that establishes rhythm on a composition is limited to a few sounds simply because of the nature of rhythm in Western music. Comparative to other forms (specifically Indian Classical but there are others), Western music's development of rhythm is basic. Harmony is generally more developed than rhythm and the possibilities for rhythmic interaction is quite limited. There's nothing to say that it has to be - but that is the historical precedent.
If you're interested in listening to something 'interesting' that is highly rhythmic and Western, then give Aphex Twin's 'Formula'. There's a huge rhythmic soundset that intermingles. Trying to reproduce it with conventional percussion would be an (interesting) exercise in futility). I think computers are largely the future for 'new' percussion but I'm open to other ideas.
Please don't presume that we're all stuck into some kind of rhythmic mediocrity.