bearblastbeats
Senior Member
Yea. I mean guitars only got their fingers. We got the whole body in motion baby yea
What made you want to start drumming?
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SomeBadDrummer
Platinum Member
Guitarists miss out on the most important stuff, we know what they really want and it ain’t little riffs, it’s Big Bangs
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
I have that on CD, and the Krupa versus Rich album from the same series I think...
SomeBadDrummer
Platinum Member
Back in the day when vinyl ruled these guys were gods. It took a monumental effort to get anything into production, compared to today when any bad drummer like me can upload a video.
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
yep...I really wish I had the actual vinyl of those recordings...
and I feel the same about the current ways of "publishing" content. There used to be the "filter" of the expense of, and logistics of, recording that got rid of the "hobbyists" and let the legit players shine. Now, that filter - among many many others - is gone. And not to say that there were not tons of bad stuff that got recorded...but not as much as there is now...
DrumEatDrum
Platinum Member
Neil Peart of Rush got me interested in maybe drums.
Keith Moon, specifically on "Magic Bus" on the "Live at Leeds" album, made me want to devote my life to drums.
Keith Moon, specifically on "Magic Bus" on the "Live at Leeds" album, made me want to devote my life to drums.
Square
El Conquistador
In 2019 I had a stroke... That led to me playing drums.
The back story:
I have played guitar for 40+ years and occasionally dabbled with drums. I even took a few lessons from some pretty high profile pros over the years. The truth is though, I could play basic beats, and do 16th note fills across the toms. You know, basic guitar player drumming...
The stroke left me with speech difficulty and my right arm/hand didn't work like it should. I thought that playing guitar would be my rehab for the right side. It worked but not as much as I had hoped.
On a lark, I picked up a practice pad and a set of sticks. I saw immediate, significant improvement. So I kept going.
Today, I have 99% or more of my pre-stroke right side ability (speech, maybe 98%) and I've really fallen in love with the process of learning drums.
I just started formal lessons about a month ago, and I'm seeing significant growth in my drumming vocabulary. Anyway, maybe my story can be of help to others overcoming difficult situations.
The back story:
I have played guitar for 40+ years and occasionally dabbled with drums. I even took a few lessons from some pretty high profile pros over the years. The truth is though, I could play basic beats, and do 16th note fills across the toms. You know, basic guitar player drumming...
The stroke left me with speech difficulty and my right arm/hand didn't work like it should. I thought that playing guitar would be my rehab for the right side. It worked but not as much as I had hoped.
On a lark, I picked up a practice pad and a set of sticks. I saw immediate, significant improvement. So I kept going.
Today, I have 99% or more of my pre-stroke right side ability (speech, maybe 98%) and I've really fallen in love with the process of learning drums.
I just started formal lessons about a month ago, and I'm seeing significant growth in my drumming vocabulary. Anyway, maybe my story can be of help to others overcoming difficult situations.
SomeBadDrummer
Platinum Member
You are an awesome person and worthy of this most lofty pursuit. I want to know more as you recover fully to find how this story unfolds.
I also want to see a photo of your 1964 Slingerland, Modern Jazz 12, 14, 20 kit!
Square
El Conquistador
Well I feel pretty much normal now. Thank you for the praise... Now it's just a matter of practice and more practice, as I'm sure it is for all of us.
Here's the Slingy. It looks a little golden in some of the pics but it is really much more silver in person. Similar to what the snare looks like.
SomeBadDrummer
Platinum Member
This is an awesome kit!! I would love to see it in person but if I don’t get the chance you should play it loud and proud!
Smitty22kick
Member
I had always beat on things when I was a kid. I was lucky enough to have a dad that brought plastic drums home from work on occasion for various storage purposes. They actually had pretty good tone, lol. The more I hit things keeping in time the more I wanted to. My brother had been given a guitar and I also messed around with that. I enjoyed it but it was nothing compared to hitting those plastic drums with small pieces of firewood. Once I played a friend's drum set it was on then, I was hooked. I asked for a set of drums for years as my ONLY Christmas present before I finally got one. What a beautiful start and great journey it has been so far. Far from over...
Julia Browning
New Member
I was a pianist and had not even the slightest interest in drums, but at a school pep rally, I heard a rim shot on a marching snare, and I was hooked ever since. It sounds cheesy, but it’s true haha
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
not too cheesy...I hung around Ohio State's MB practices as a kid, and that was helpful in sealing the deal for me too...the speed, power, and flashy movement was just as cool as anythign I had done on drum set
and it actually propelled me into my carreer as a band director /percussion instructor
Drumdame
Silver Member
I'm a gifted songwriter, singer and composer but I always wanted to play an instrument. I never dreamed it would be the drums. My father was a drummer, my late husband played the drums, keyboard and guitar, and my son is also a drummer. So for many years there was always a drum kit down my cellar that I now call "D's Drum Den" but never in a million years did I think that I could play drums.
Then one day at the age of 68 I went down the cellar, ripped off the sheet that was covering the kit, cranked the music, picked up a pair of sticks and the rest is history! There are 4 generations of drummers in our family, 11 drummers in all with me being the only female. Boy do I wish I picked up those sticks when I was 17. Now in just a couple of months I'll be 70 years Young, staying in the groove, and I just keep ROCKIN' ON !!!
In another post you could read in detail... I tell the story of how Gene Krupa spoke over my life in 1952 and said to my parents as my mother cradled me in her arms "she looks like she's going to be a drummer" as he handed my father a pair of his drumsticks with his name stamped in green that I still have till this day 70 years later!
The black-and-white photo is me when I was 5 years old pictured with my father's Ludwig, blue and white pearl snare.
This is me... Drummer_D
Then one day at the age of 68 I went down the cellar, ripped off the sheet that was covering the kit, cranked the music, picked up a pair of sticks and the rest is history! There are 4 generations of drummers in our family, 11 drummers in all with me being the only female. Boy do I wish I picked up those sticks when I was 17. Now in just a couple of months I'll be 70 years Young, staying in the groove, and I just keep ROCKIN' ON !!!
In another post you could read in detail... I tell the story of how Gene Krupa spoke over my life in 1952 and said to my parents as my mother cradled me in her arms "she looks like she's going to be a drummer" as he handed my father a pair of his drumsticks with his name stamped in green that I still have till this day 70 years later!
The black-and-white photo is me when I was 5 years old pictured with my father's Ludwig, blue and white pearl snare.
This is me... Drummer_D
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Joshua Johnson
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Nice.
V-Four
Senior Member
I'd have to say.. listening to Motley Crue back in early 80's. I loved Tommy Lee's use of cowbell as well as his cool fills and cymbal "hits n chokes" by themselves, (with no other drums being played), in the middle of a fill and such.
1st song I ever played on a set, however, was The Intro to ZZ Tops "Gimmie all your lovin" (i believe).
Never touched a stick before and sat down behind my "drummers" CB700 kit, and just played it. Was actually quite good, I think my drummer friend was a little upset that it came naturally to me.
Couple of years later, traded in the ole 6 string "flying V" for an old rogers set that looked like someones grandaddy played in a jazz band 40 years prior. It was no white pearl with double Bass drums and 2 mounted power toms, thats for sure.
I bet that thing was worth something if I had it now.
I just tossed it in the corner once I got a brand-new (5pc) white Pearl Export.
O yea, so.. Tommy Lee, I guess is my official answer to what made me start drumming.
T$
1st song I ever played on a set, however, was The Intro to ZZ Tops "Gimmie all your lovin" (i believe).
Never touched a stick before and sat down behind my "drummers" CB700 kit, and just played it. Was actually quite good, I think my drummer friend was a little upset that it came naturally to me.
Couple of years later, traded in the ole 6 string "flying V" for an old rogers set that looked like someones grandaddy played in a jazz band 40 years prior. It was no white pearl with double Bass drums and 2 mounted power toms, thats for sure.
I bet that thing was worth something if I had it now.
I just tossed it in the corner once I got a brand-new (5pc) white Pearl Export.
O yea, so.. Tommy Lee, I guess is my official answer to what made me start drumming.
T$
Xstr8edgtnrdrmrX
Local Boob
I'd have to say.. listening to Motley Crue back in early 80's. I loved Tommy Lee's use of cowbell as well as his cool fills and cymbal "hits n chokes" by themselves, (with no other drums being played), in the middle of a fill and such.
1st song I ever played on a set, however, was The Intro to ZZ Tops "Gimmie all your lovin" (i believe).
Never touched a stick before and sat down behind my "drummers" CB700 kit, and just played it. Was actually quite good, I think my drummer friend was a little upset that it came naturally to me.
Couple of years later, traded in the ole 6 string "flying V" for an old rogers set that looked like someones grandaddy played in a jazz band 40 years prior. It was no white pearl with double Bass drums and 2 mounted power toms, thats for sure.
I bet that thing was worth something if I had it now.
I just tossed it in the corner once I got a brand-new (5pc) white Pearl Export.
O yea, so.. Tommy Lee, I guess is my official answer to what made me start drumming.
T$
dude....I alos loved the use of cowbell and the "naked cymbal hit/choke" things on Too Fast For Love!!! I hve never heard anyone else ever mention those! I played along to that album a lot back in the early 80's.
And Red Hot - off of Shout - was my first double bass song ever
Tony Trout
Senior Member
Edited to add: It wasn't really a "what" that made me start wanting to learn drums but a "who"....and that person is/was the late Ronnie Tutt.
I actually seriously started playing music around the time I was about 10 years old and very quickly got really serious about it after seeing Elvis Presley's TCB Band backing him in "That's The Way It Is" (1970); "Elvis On Tour" (1972); & "Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii" (1973); for the first time via VHS tape around 1987. I now have all three aforementioned movies/television specials on DVD or Blu-ray.
When I started playing guitar, I badly wanted to be just like James Burton was with his '69 pink paisley Fender Telecaster (and I hopefully will have my own all-original 1968 Fender red paisley Telecaster when my cousin can get it out of storage) and when I saw Ronnie Tutt (RIP), I wanted to be like him. To be honest, the entire TCB Band was part of my musical make-up as well as men like Floyd Cramer and a lot of the players who worked Elvis Presley's recording sessions from 1960 until his final recording sessions at Graceland's "Jungle Room" from February 2-12, 1976 & October 29-November 1, 1976 (it wasn't referred to as a "Jungle Room" until Graceland opened to the public on June 7, 1982).
My Mom was and still is a great singer at age 74 and I guess I got a lot of my singing ability from her and my ability to play instruments from her side of the family.
Either way, however it happened, I'm very thankful to be able to do what I can do because I've been mildly disabled with Cerebral Palsy & Hydrocephalus since I was born three months early on May 20, 1976. I play the following instruments:
Guitar: Acoustic/Electric/Slide/Bass/B-Bender/Lap Steel
Piano/Keyboards
Drums
And I still very much want to either put together or purchase a Ludwig blue sparkle (with concert toms) drum kit exactly like Tutt had from that first September 9-14, 1970 tour with Elvis until he switched to the COV (Chrome Over Vista-Lite) kit that we who have seen "Elvis In Concert" or any concert between 1974-1977.
That's what I can do musically - and that Ludwig drum kit is something that I very much want to have before my time here on this Earth is up someday.
God Bless,
Tony Trout
I actually seriously started playing music around the time I was about 10 years old and very quickly got really serious about it after seeing Elvis Presley's TCB Band backing him in "That's The Way It Is" (1970); "Elvis On Tour" (1972); & "Elvis: Aloha From Hawaii" (1973); for the first time via VHS tape around 1987. I now have all three aforementioned movies/television specials on DVD or Blu-ray.
When I started playing guitar, I badly wanted to be just like James Burton was with his '69 pink paisley Fender Telecaster (and I hopefully will have my own all-original 1968 Fender red paisley Telecaster when my cousin can get it out of storage) and when I saw Ronnie Tutt (RIP), I wanted to be like him. To be honest, the entire TCB Band was part of my musical make-up as well as men like Floyd Cramer and a lot of the players who worked Elvis Presley's recording sessions from 1960 until his final recording sessions at Graceland's "Jungle Room" from February 2-12, 1976 & October 29-November 1, 1976 (it wasn't referred to as a "Jungle Room" until Graceland opened to the public on June 7, 1982).
My Mom was and still is a great singer at age 74 and I guess I got a lot of my singing ability from her and my ability to play instruments from her side of the family.
Either way, however it happened, I'm very thankful to be able to do what I can do because I've been mildly disabled with Cerebral Palsy & Hydrocephalus since I was born three months early on May 20, 1976. I play the following instruments:
Guitar: Acoustic/Electric/Slide/Bass/B-Bender/Lap Steel
Piano/Keyboards
Drums
And I still very much want to either put together or purchase a Ludwig blue sparkle (with concert toms) drum kit exactly like Tutt had from that first September 9-14, 1970 tour with Elvis until he switched to the COV (Chrome Over Vista-Lite) kit that we who have seen "Elvis In Concert" or any concert between 1974-1977.
That's what I can do musically - and that Ludwig drum kit is something that I very much want to have before my time here on this Earth is up someday.
God Bless,
Tony Trout
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