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+1. My experience is exactly the same. Our bassist brings both, the upright stick for the jazz stuff and his bass guitar for R&B.

I play in a light jazz quartet (sax, piano, bass, drums + vocalist sometimes) and we have a primary bassist and a sub. Primary guy plays bass guitar (he's in a bunch of other bands) but bought one of those upright electric sticks for a rockabilly gig and also brings it along to our gigs...

True; Joe Morello could and did play his Ludwig Super Classic (22k/13,16f) in a piano trio with Marian McPartland and with Brubeck at pp level with no problem - it's down to the skill of the drummer. That said, I use my Sonor jungle kit (16k/10,13f) in a jazz (but not bop) combo playing wine...

Thanks - I have several different ones of him on my bass drums and musicians and audience members all love him. Mojo is "the greatest dog in the history of dogs being ever."

That would actually be a good practice/jam-o-rama kit if the edges are ok.

I'd like to find a 6.5x14 blacro but they're scarce as hen's teeth and now way overpriced for what was originally considered a simple, workaday drum.

For those kinds of situations, I'd recommend finding a used Pearl Rhythm Traveler; all the toms nest and the bass drum is slim but still gives you a real bass drum sound because it's 8x20. I made mine even more compact by using two timbales (Pearl 3.5x13 and DW 2.5x10 piccolo tom) that nest...

Judging from the bass drum, your OCD can't be that bad. >;^)

Condition of the heads should mean nothing, you can replace them in a minute; condition of the shell is much more important. I always thought/was told that Acros were student-model drums, so I only got one one (used) fairly recently in my playing life. I opted for the blacro simply because I...

I feel Aynsley Dunbar and Joel Rosenblatt (and maybe even Lenny White) don't get as much respect as they deserve, despite being stellar drummers. Don't know why.

How do you think Fiberskyns might sound?

Mojo always wanted to be in on the action:

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While that may be true generally speaking, I've kept things I haven't used for many years and then all of a sudden, I need them. This is especially true for odd ball stuff like finger cymbals, a gong, timbales, a slide whistle, certain models of sticks, Factory Metal stuff, wind chimes...

I do. Sometimes in a conventional configuration: But more often in a more idiosyncratic layout in which I use Pearl Compact Traveler 10 and 14 toms; with 2-ply heads mic'ed up, those things kill. They pack up easy and on a rack, take up very little room onstage.

For most of my playing career I favored 20s, but one time I had a Zildjian Rock 21 which I really liked for its oversized bell - hard target to miss. When Rudes came out I tried a 22 ride but it took up too much real estate and didn't really have as much balls as the 20s I had been using. Had...

You use both. When I started using small diameter drums (18 or 16 kicks with 10&13 or 12&14 toms), I also downscaled to 18 rides. It's more in keeping with the smaller drums - whenever I see these bop and jungle kits with 20 and 22 rides it looks absurd. Although I'm a Paiste guy, I lucked into...

WTB: Remo Muffl's, old style with internal plastic tray, not the new external model. Sizes 16 and 18.

I like to play drums and I like the way they look. I usually take pix of my kit at every gig so I can remember what I used and how it worked/didn't work. Kind of like a visual diary.

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