As always, necessity is the mother of invention. Thus we proudly unveil the new Ringotronics Swoosh Snare 3000. While possibly not providing much of a backbeat is does provide a backboard and yes, it does add new meaning to the term "3 point strainer".
Seriously, I walked into a venue tonight to pick up some of my gear from a show and apparently the last artist of the night was a s i n g e r / song writer who played acoustic guitar, kick with his right foot and snare with his left. (see attached photos) The snare is a WFL 6 lugger and it is suspended in a basketball goal by the basketball net. Genius! The guy attached a wire brush to the foot pedal. The WFL snare, while in need of a good cleaning was actually in pretty great shape.
The kick drum apparently belongs in the non USA section as it is clearly an MIJ of some sort. "Gambler Import Corp." is what it says on the badge. I am not familiar with those, but am no expert either. He didn't have spurs for it. (By the way, what the heck happens to all of those spurs? They are almost as likely to be missing as a bottom hoop and tension rods on a tom or the front hoop and T rods on a kick drum. I think people have just misunderstood the term "disappearing " spurs. But I digress.) Since he did not have spurs he opted to put the kick drum on a piece of plywood and then wire it to the tension rods. Why not? The T rods are actually pretty cool with the "T" being somewhat of an asymmetrical tear-drop shape.
From what I understand the guy was quite talented and he was very nice. Young kid actually. I asked him about the drums and he didn't really know anything other than a friend loaned them to him. He told me the kick drum was a Rogers. Of all the things it might be, that is really not one of them. It was not Ludwig either but it was nice vintage logo head.
I thought you guys would enjoy.
