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Awesome Vintage Drum Sound and Good Playing Last viewed: 2 hours ago

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From JD7

Cool, glad you like it. I love finding out about great bands that are doing something interesting. Ever hear The Hellacopters? If not, check them out. They changed a lot over their time as a band, starting out a little more in the MC5 style, ending up with a lot more late 70s arena rock riffs. The drummer has that swinging rock style that I love. Like so many great modern bands, they sounded like vintage American rock and are from Sweden.

I think I have actually. Anyway I will check them out later, for now I'm playing the entire Dungen back catalogue on Spotify as I type this. There great, and those drum sounds.............. Cool1

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Posted on 12 years ago
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From geckobeats

I think I have actually. Anyway I will check them out later, for now I'm playing the entire Dungen back catalogue on Spotify as I type this. There great, and those drum sounds.............. Cool1

Awesome. Check out their bio - I think its 1 guy who masterminds everything. I read he was a DJ or something and got heat for not being able to play, so he recorded the Dungen stuff. If that's the case I believe he shut his critics up!

I hate to sound like an old guy, but I love that there's a big audience for things like vintage drums and music where people play and record using yesterday's technology instead of robotic Protools vocals and perfectly ****genized drum sounds. I really like Jack White's band The Raconteurs (as well as his solo stuff). He records to tape and has dudes that can play it for real instead of relying on punch ins and all that.

Posted on 12 years ago
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Yeah when it comes down to recording a band you want to feel and hear that air being rolled around the studio not squeezed out by techno junk.

40's Slingerland Radio King WMP
60's Ludwig Downbeat Silver Spark
70's Ludwig Super Classic White Marine
60's Gretsch RB Champaigne Spark
70's Rogers Big R Black
90's Sonor Hilite (Red maple)
00's DW Collectors Broken Glass
00's DW Jazz Series Tangerine Glass
10's DW Collectors (Acrylic) Matt Black Wrap
10's PDP Concept Wood Hoop kit (Maple)
Proud ambassador of the British Drum Company
Posted on 12 years ago
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Ijust got edited for typing h0m0genized!

Posted on 12 years ago
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From JD7

Ijust got edited for typing h0m0genized!

JD7!

Just so's you know... that's the software speaking. Your friendly VDF staff has nothing to do with the edits in that regard. I also think that it's DUMB. Watch... can't even write the word ***elry. ( J E W E L R Y ) Ah... our PC society taken a bit to the extreme. And so it goes.

Tommyp

Posted on 12 years ago
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From geckobeats

Is that really vintage drums? Talk about blind test, but I'm sure those toms have a Japanese ring to me. Oooh now there's a challenge. Hmmmm

Not looking Japanese. Here's a pic. I need to find out about these cymbals.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=381264051930730&set=pb.114102361980235.-2207520000.1357344685&type=3&theater

Posted on 12 years ago
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From geckobeats

Is that really vintage drums? Talk about blind test, but I'm sure those toms have a Japanese ring to me. Oooh now there's a challenge. Hmmmm

That's funny, when I listen to these guys, I totally hear vintage 60s Japanese flat cymbal stands, but then seeing those FB pics, I am totally confused!......huummmmmmmmmmmmm

(yes, that was a joke)

Re: the FB pic - Looks quite obvious that those are Slingers in the studio there - evident by the mounting on the tom and the BD. From my experience, that mounting of Slingerland is the only tom mounting I have ever seen that does not dampen the toms when mounted without suspension mounting. Then again, the experience I am thinking of was brushed aluminum from about 1968 and not chromed at all. Slingers would make sense though.

What is remarkable is that even if these were not Slingers, most drummers nowadays are now realizing that even old MIJs can be made to sound very close to vintage American drums.......there is alot to be said for good edges, the right heads, tuning, and lastly, dried out luan.

John

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Posted on 12 years ago
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Yes indeed a nice set of Slingerlands.

I had the fortune of meeting and having several beers with Lars Ulrich some years ago. I found him to be a very charming fellow. Anyway we get talking about endorsements as I had some issues at that time. He said that for live he couldn't beat his Tama's, and that the company had been brilliant for him. But (and this shocked me at the time) he swore that every Metallica record up to then (2005) bar none had been done on his old vintage Gretsch kit his Dad had bought him when he started playing. It just goes to show you can make those old American beauties do anything.

40's Slingerland Radio King WMP
60's Ludwig Downbeat Silver Spark
70's Ludwig Super Classic White Marine
60's Gretsch RB Champaigne Spark
70's Rogers Big R Black
90's Sonor Hilite (Red maple)
00's DW Collectors Broken Glass
00's DW Jazz Series Tangerine Glass
10's DW Collectors (Acrylic) Matt Black Wrap
10's PDP Concept Wood Hoop kit (Maple)
Proud ambassador of the British Drum Company
Posted on 12 years ago
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No way! I never would have suspected that. Especially what I remember of the drum sounds on ...And Justice For All!

Then again, the sound that stands out is pretty much that bass drum that sounds like a wet paper bag being slapped by a pound of raw meat... or something like that. I guess it was so dampened and tuned for maximum attack, that it could have been anything you could fit a head on.

From geckobeats

Yes indeed a nice set of Slingerlands. I had the fortune of meeting and having several beers with Lars Ulrich some years ago. I found him to be a very charming fellow. Anyway we get talking about endorsements as I had some issues at that time. He said that for live he couldn't beat his Tama's, and that the company had been brilliant for him. But (and this shocked me at the time) he swore that every Metallica record up to then (2005) bar none had been done on his old vintage Gretsch kit his Dad had bought him when he started playing. It just goes to show you can make those old American beauties do anything.

Posted on 12 years ago
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The singer sounds like Ozzy Osbourne. The drummer overly busy. Song is nothing spectacular. Drums sound like hybrid. A little bonky to me. But as sexist as it sounds, the lady's knees in the photo are cute :)

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Posted on 12 years ago
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