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June 8, 2016 at 12:17 pm #24974TimParticipant
I feel I have to get this off my chest and I can only hope I’m not judges too harshly:
…I’ve bought a drum kit 😯
Don’t worry, I will still be plucking the 4 string and attempting to strum the 6! It’s just I’ll be hitting things with sticks too…its good for the soul. 8)
And it was cheap.
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December 30, 2008 at 10:28 pm #1291011bassleftParticipant
They weren’t around back then and I haven’t tinkled them myself, but it doesn’t surprise me. Stagg are getting their stuff from China for peanuts and the trumpet I bought for my sprog sounded perfectly decent for a quarter the price of a student Boosey or the like.
I have my personal tastes on cymbals from where I stand. The sub rosa drummer had one of those 200 quid Premier Olympic kits whose skins must have been sourced from a granny’s arse and the aforementioned biscuit tin lids. When recording, I hired the studio’s Sonor which was a huge improvement but I couldn’t stand the terribly dark and heavy Zildjian Ks. We used the Paiste crash and had to make do with a tin lid as top hat over the Zildjian bottom. The current band’s drummer uses Sabian (AA, I think) and I like them very much but they’re not a budget option.
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December 30, 2008 at 8:00 am #129100lee_UKParticipant
[quote=”1bassleft”]Crikey, Tim; you’re becoming a right Mike Oldfield. Mrs Bass keeps talking about the state of our “dining room” but I doubt I could resist the drum kit for that price. If you’re looking for a cheap but good replacement cymbal, you keed keep a Fleebeye out for Paiste 400s. I bought one back in the early 90s because our skint drummer had terrible biscuit tin lids. Nice sound for not a lot of money.
Tell us more about the cello.[/quote]
Our old drummer uses Stagg cymbals, cheap and cheerful, he tried a lot of expensive ones and thought there wasn’t a lot of difference, they make my ears ring after a constant 30 second crash out finish!
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December 30, 2008 at 3:09 am #1290981bassleftParticipant
I honestly don’t recall any OCD-style postings by you on the subject of cellos 🙂
Ex-army band sounds good as it’s unlikely to be basement value stuff. From the little I know of its relative, the double bass, I guess you’re looking for good signs like not a ply body, ebony fingerboard and pegs rather than stained maple or rosewood, that sort of thing. I was at Bass Day UK in Manchester last month (PC probs prevented me doing a writeup) and a rather good double bass demo was given by a well-known player (whose name has, maddeningly, just popped out of my head). My guitarist, who’s hankered for an upright, asked him his opinion of electric uprights. “Just buy an electric bass if that’s what you’re after” was the reply 🙂
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December 29, 2008 at 8:15 am #129099TimParticipant
oh and as for the Mike Oldfield, it’s all rythmn section stuff or low-register anyway…I know my place lol
I quite fancy some kind of dirty-blues meets breakbeats kinda thing…when I’ve learnt to play all these.
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December 29, 2008 at 8:11 am #129096TimParticipant
cheers for the heads-up.
As for the Cello…I don’t know that much as the g/f got it for me for Christmas off ebay. I’ve always loved the kinda haunting sound of them bowed and the bluesy sound of them plucked and may well have mentioned this at every given oportunity… 😳
Anyway, she managed to get me a full size cello for just under £200 don’t know much about it…it’s ex-army band (still has number chalked on gig-bag) and sounds the dogs danglies…umm I might have more info on the morrow (had bottle and half of shiraz so kinda floaty 🙂 )Peace
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December 29, 2008 at 1:20 am #1290971bassleftParticipant
Crikey, Tim; you’re becoming a right Mike Oldfield. Mrs Bass keeps talking about the state of our “dining room” but I doubt I could resist the drum kit for that price. If you’re looking for a cheap but good replacement cymbal, you keed keep a Fleebeye out for Paiste 400s. I bought one back in the early 90s because our skint drummer had terrible biscuit tin lids. Nice sound for not a lot of money.
Tell us more about the cello.
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December 27, 2008 at 7:14 pm #129094TimParticipant
I now have a Cello too!
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December 1, 2008 at 3:53 am #129095TimParticipant
😆 It’s not a block of flats or anything, it a converted Georgian end terrace behind a pub which has a beer garden and Karaoke, like I say; I’ve discussed it with downsatairs (and we own the floor directly below so he’s 2 floors down) already and neither side is a problem and I’m using the pads…it’s all good. 😀
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November 29, 2008 at 11:59 pm #129093lee_UKParticipant
Flat – Drumkit – Considerate.
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November 29, 2008 at 2:14 am #129092TimParticipant
Yeah 😀 …but I’m very considerate I’ve told downstairs and asked if my proposed ‘cut-off’ time is ok.
The guy on one side of us is a drummer himself and the other side is a pub, so not a problem really.
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November 28, 2008 at 6:56 am #129091lee_UKParticipant
Let me get this straight… you have a Drum Kit in a flat? 😯
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November 27, 2008 at 3:09 am #129090TimParticipant
It’s right in the middle of this room 😆 We basically use this room as a play-room lol, my basses/guitars/amps, 3 PCs, Hi Fi seperates, sofa-bed for the guests and now…a drumkit!
It’s a bit cobbled together but mainly Premier with Remo skins, absolutely dire unbranded symbol but OK hats. Came with a stool and full set of QT silencing pads for £60!
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November 26, 2008 at 5:04 pm #129088lee_UKParticipant
Without trying to sound too Chantellish, OH MY GOD 😯
Tim with a pair of sticks.My eldest daughter (11) has taken up guitar lessons at school, but my youngest (9) has taken drum lessons, and a kit was on her christmas list, but luckily i have one of those Yamaha DD55 things, with the electronic drum pads and foot pedals, where in the house are you going to set up the said drum kit?
how cheap was it?
and what make/model? did it include cybals? which type?
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