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Never heard that expression 'drum castle' but I'm definitely nicking it!

Someone on here suggested Peter Criss - he has to be as guilty as your example, surrounded by a never ending drum kit and playing 4/4 on the hihats and snare all night long.

Me neither, and I'm nicking it as well, it's f***ing brilliant.:lol:

Good work Heston.

A drum riser's just what you put your drums on man!

This is a drum castle....

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Aye, thats the boy.
 
I used to refer to my mate as the 'man with the never ending drum kit'. His set up was like that abstract drawing of skewed perspective where the brick wall square appears to be always going downhill but still manages to connect.
 
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I remember my mate (a drummer) saying he went to see Dire Straits and the drummer had about 4 thousand drums but didn't actually play them, except to show off on the start of Money for nothing (or summit)

What a load of self indulgent ego ridden shite.

What like this?

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(Neil Peart, Rush)

Couldn't agree more. It's like a gutarist having a guitar with 250 strings on.

That's f***ing ridicules that like, that points to a drummer that plays the drums and not the song.

It points to a drummer with a tiny cock and a massive ego.
 
Funny you posting that pic.I was just watching cheap trick on you tube and the guitarist was playing one of those dream police was the track.
 
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(Neil Peart, Rush)

Couldn't agree more. It's like a gutarist having a guitar with 250 strings on.

It points to a drummer with a tiny cock and a massive ego.

I've got to disagree here. Partially anyway.

There's some drummers that fit into the category you're describing... all drums and no talent, but Neil Peart certainly isn't one of them.

The more albums a band writes, the more additional drums get added to the kit along the way so that the drummer has the correct sounds available to him when he needs them for any particular song.

Now don't get me wrong, a good drummer can play a kit whether it's made up of 3 drums or 30, but if you've got a repertoire like Rush's where the music has been evolving constantly throughout their history then the only option for the drummer is to have an enormous kit like that (unless the band are totally redefining the sound of every song for that particular tour, but generally fans want the songs to sound like they do on the album they first appeared on).

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Or simply one of those ridiculous multi neck guitars.

Fuck off, just fuck off.

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See, I can see the sense in a guitar with 3 of those necks if the band has only 1 guitarist and the song requires a 12-string, a 6-string and a fretless, but the other 2 necks are surely just excessive?
 
I've got to disagree here. Partially anyway.

There's some drummers that fit into the category you're describing... all drums and no talent, but Neil Peart certainly isn't one of them.

The more albums a band writes, the more additional drums get added to the kit along the way so that the drummer has the correct sounds available to him when he needs them for any particular song.

Now don't get me wrong, a good drummer can play a kit whether it's made up of 3 drums or 30, but if you've got a repertoire like Rush's where the music has been evolving constantly throughout their history then the only option for the drummer is to have an enormous kit like that (unless the band are totally redefining the sound of every song for that particular tour, but generally fans want the songs to sound like they do on the album they first appeared on).



See, I can see the sense in a guitar with 3 of those necks if the band has only 1 guitarist and the song requires a 12-string, a 6-string and a fretless, but the other 2 necks are surely just excessive?

Din't be daft man Fyl, you just need a kit with a snare a bass and a couple of tom toms, crash and a hi hat and jobs a good un, anything else is silly excess.

Similarly with guitars, just a normal guitar is needed, after all you only need three chords to play most decent songs anyway.

;)
 
Now don't get me wrong, a good drummer can play a kit whether it's made up of 3 drums or 30, but if you've got a repertoire like Rush's where the music has been evolving constantly throughout their history then the only option for the drummer is to have an enormous kit like that (unless the band are totally redefining the sound of every song for that particular tour, but generally fans want the songs to sound like they do on the album they first appeared on).

I must have cloth ears then, cos they were pompous, squeaky, tune-deficient, toe-freezing anti-music dinosaurs when I was at school, and they were still pompous, squeaky, tune-deficient, toe-freezing anti-music dinosaurs last time I was foolish enough to click on a youtube link from one of their comatose legion on here.

Sorry like!
 
Funny you posting that pic.I was just watching cheap trick on you tube and the guitarist was playing one of those dream police was the track.

According to the link, I think that picture IS the Cheap Trick guitar.
 
Din't be daft man Fyl, you just need a kit with a snare a bass and a couple of tom toms, crash and a hi hat and jobs a good un, anything else is silly excess.

Similarly with guitars, just a normal guitar is needed, after all you only need three chords to play most decent songs anyway.

;)

:lol: Aye.

I must have cloth ears then, cos they were pompous, squeaky, tune-deficient, toe-freezing anti-music dinosaurs when I was at school, and they were still pompous, squeaky, tune-deficient, toe-freezing anti-music dinosaurs last time I was foolish enough to click on a youtube link from one of their comatose legion on here.

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:lol: Each to their own. Personally, I think they're one of the best bands of the last 40 years, up there with Pink Floyd and Led Zep (2 other bands with ludicrously huge drumkits ;)).
 
See, I can see the sense in a guitar with 3 of those necks if the band has only 1 guitarist and the song requires a 12-string, a 6-string and a fretless, but the other 2 necks are surely just excessive?

Simply get more guitarists, thereby avoiding anyone looking like a twat.

Hope this helps.
 
I've had quite a drink this afternoon so please forgive me. It took til post 23 but he got there. Clem Burke is a good call. As mentioned earlier his contribution to Blondie was excellent. But I wouldn't look further than Keith Moon. Someone mentioned that Burke had more discipline than Moon. That may be so but I think that Moon's reputation off-stage hid the fact that he was tight and especially when at his best. He and John Entwhistle held the band together. I watched a programme about influential albums and this one was about Who's Next. Roger Daltrey was sitting at a recording desk and talking about Keith Moon. He faded everything out of one song off the album and just left Moon's drumming. Top notch. I think he claimed he could tell what song was being played just from the drums. I watched The Who at Newcastle about 10 years ago and Zak Starkey was very good. Apparently Moon taught him to play as he was pals with Ringo Starr. I don't think he taught him everything he knew though. I just love listening to the drums and bass of The Who's live stuff. They were great when I saw them in 2002 (ish). Wish I'd seen them in 72.
 
There was actually a better live version of Dreaming on youtube but it must have been pulled as that one was the only one I could find last night........

Are you having a laugh..he was a decent drummer, but famously was very loose, just like moon......Mitch Mitchell caned them and then of course there was King Crimson drummer, truly amazing.....it's not what youcan do its the wat you do it.
 
According to the link, I think that picture IS the Cheap Trick guitar.
Rick Neilsen is a great guitarist - the multi necked guitar is a joke (which he plays up to).
Speaking of Cheap trick Bun E. Carlos is a cracking drummer.
 
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