A 20-12-14 wood fiberglass is my main gigging kit. I did have the bearing edges recut on the 20", because I thought the full roundover edge made the drum sound too muted, even with non-muffled heads. The kit sounds perfect now and well balanced.
The Byrds might have been influenced by The Beatles, with the Ric 12-string and all, but those first 5 albums were seminal works that stand toe to toe with anything ever produced.
Every "live" video I've seen of them is lip synched. I saw one that I thought was truly live but it turned out that just the vocals were. For all the crap The Monkees got about studio players on their albums, the fact is they played as a real live band from the start, warts and all. Still, the...
My deepest condolences. My dad, himself a journalist, was an avid reader of Rolling Stone, and we still have most of the issues, so I am very familiar with your father's work. May he rest in peace, and may you find comfort in your memories of him.
I remember receiving an advance cassette of Songs From the Big Chair just before Christmas 1984, and fell in love with it instantly. It was so good that I had no doubt it was going to be huge when it was released, which it was. They could have been the biggest band in the world, but failed to...
My Pearl P100 is my cheapest pedal, and the one I use all the time. I keep my strap drive Iron Cobra nearby in case of breakage, but have never had to use it. The P100 feels perfect.
A lot of times, the Ticketmaster site will take you to a secondary seller. If you lurk around, you'll see that one of the pages has real tiny text at the bottom that says, "A Ticketmaster Company".
That is a steel shelled student model, circa 1998-2005ish. I would have come with a black plastic hard case, stand, pad and sticks. I bought one of these for my son when he joined school band, and it sat around for years after that. Put a calfskin head on it, and the thing just kills. So much...