Two music stores today

[lossforgain]

On a run down to Maryland to meet up with someone who sold me a partial Rogers set, I decided to stop on the way back at the local Guitar Center and Music Go Round stores.

I’ve posted before about my dissatisfaction with Guitar Center (as many of us have), but this particular one had a lot going for it in the drum department. Over two dozen sets on display, and a decent array of cymbals available. Some of the used sets and snares seemed like good deals (although one used snare drum that’s listed as 14x4 is absolutely a 13” drum), so it was nice to see a GC where drumming is alive and well.

Then stopped at Music Go Round. Hadn’t been to this one before, but they had a lot of decent deals. I only took one picture, or a Premier set that seemed especially tempting:

There was a K Dry Light ride for a great price…but it was big on the “dry” and not so much on the “light” so I passed.

 

[Houndog]

That Premier kit is fire !!!
I love the class they seem to ooze

 

[Steech]

On a run down to Maryland to meet up with someone who sold me a partial Rogers set, I decided to stop on the way back at the local Guitar Center and Music Go Round stores.

I’ve posted before about my dissatisfaction with Guitar Center (as many of us have), but this particular one had a lot going for it in the drum department. Over two dozen sets on display, and a decent array of cymbals available. Some of the used sets and snares seemed like good deals (although one used snare drum that’s listed as 14x4 is absolutely a 13” drum), so it was nice to see a GC where drumming is alive and well.

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Then stopped at Music Go Round. Hadn’t been to this one before, but they had a lot of decent deals. I only took one picture, or a Premier set that seemed especially tempting:

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There was a K Dry Light ride for a great price…but it was big on the “dry” and not so much on the “light” so I passed.

Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a GC with that many kits on display. Nice.

 

[lossforgain]

That Premier kit is fire !!!
I love the class they seem to ooze

They have it marked as an APK — definitely not. I don’t know enough about that era of Premier, but they were lacquer finish and had beautiful interior shells, maybe beech?

$499 for the set!

 

[Ghostin one]

I bet it's a early '90's Projector in Red Inferno. I don't remember if the XPKs (also lacquer) had a black interior, but they were a different red stain color from these.

Projector: "...three plies of select Finnish birch, with German beech reinforced bearing edges"

 

[Vistalite Black]

That sketchy flooring is a slip-and-fall lawsuit wrapped in a bow.

 

[Squirrel Man]

That sketchy flooring is a slip-and-fall lawsuit wrapped in a bow.
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Always the turd in the punchbowl.



Wish my "local" GC looked like that. It's 4 hours away like any other piece of civilization (yeah, my decision to live here) and the last time I was there they had maybe 5 kits and a Roadshow set up in a closed room for the showroom floor rock stars.

 

[mkelley]

On a run down to Maryland to meet up with someone who sold me a partial Rogers set, I decided to stop on the way back at the local Guitar Center and Music Go Round stores.

I’ve posted before about my dissatisfaction with Guitar Center (as many of us have), but this particular one had a lot going for it in the drum department. Over two dozen sets on display, and a decent array of cymbals available. Some of the used sets and snares seemed like good deals (although one used snare drum that’s listed as 14x4 is absolutely a 13” drum), so it was nice to see a GC where drumming is alive and well.

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Then stopped at Music Go Round. Hadn’t been to this one before, but they had a lot of decent deals. I only took one picture, or a Premier set that seemed especially tempting:

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There was a K Dry Light ride for a great price…but it was big on the “dry” and not so much on the “light” so I passed.

I saw that Premier Cabria online. it's a good deal for a lacquered kit.

 

[lossforgain]

I saw that Premier Cabria online. it's a good deal for a lacquered kit.

I thought this would be a pre-Cabria era set, and the shells inside don’t look like the Cabria shells I’ve seen (even owned a set for a short time). I think they are a better set than that.

 

[mkelley]

I thought this would be a pre-Cabria era set, and the shells inside don’t look like the Cabria shells I’ve seen (even owned a set for a short time). I think they are a better set than that.

The badge gives it away, they're late 90's but still the same shell composition as the late 80's XPK - merranti and euculuptus.

 

[DrFrankCoco]

Went to guitar center yesterday. Drum department looked like Mars music right before they closed. No employees to be seen. Helped myself behind the counter. Use to be several drummers competing with gospel chops. Saw Billy Cobham perform to 20 people in the early 00's there. Kids aren't playing instruments in the same numbers. Do my best to shop at small businesses. Sad state of affairs.

 

[studrum]

I thought this would be a pre-Cabria era set, and the shells inside don’t look like the Cabria shells I’ve seen (even owned a set for a short time). I think they are a better set than that.

Well, they're British-era Cabrias. That's the thing.

 

[lossforgain]

Well, they're British-era Cabrias. That's the thing.

Alrighty then, I’ll take your word for it. What are the telltales?

 

[JDA]

for starts no slim die cast hoop
then a peek inside for ring (which may be none..

http://www.realscenes.com/drumarchive/premiercatalogues/1990/1990.zip

 

[Ghostin one]

I see the badge difference now. The pictures on MGR's site show the non-Projector style claws better.

https://www.musicgoround.com/product/cockeysville-md/40051-S000096716/used-premier-apk-shell-drum-kit

 

[multijd]

That sketchy flooring is a slip-and-fall lawsuit wrapped in a bow.
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I think you’re seeing something that isn’t there. Optical illusion carpeting.

 

[Vistalite Black]

I think you’re seeing something that isn’t there. Optical illusion carpeting.

Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?

 

[Steech]

Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?

 

[studrum]

Who you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?

Gotta stand with Mr. Cranky on this one. As a guy with a "delicate" back," that floor gives me the willies. I have to be on the lookout for such.

 

[studrum]

Alrighty then, I’ll take your word for it. What are the telltales?

As best as I can see, the badge says Made in England. Also, the long lugs were Cabria by that point. One thing that's blowing my mind is that there appear to be gaskets under them lugs, which I've never seen on Cabrias. We need @Elvis to take a look.