Well, you young-uns can just keep your new fangled tom sizes. I'll tell ya in my day, you had just two sizes to choose from: 8x12 and 9x13 and that was it, and we liked it! We loved it! And if we wanted them to sound different, well, we just stripped the bottom rim and head right off and there you had it... a whole new drum, and it was good enough for us dang-nab-it! And maybe you had a floor tom and maybe you didn't, and if you did, you didn't care what size it was unless it was a damn, puny14x14, then you felt kinda' gipped and somewhat inadequate when your buddy showed off his big 16x16! And ya didn't need no fancy schmancy deep bass drum, no sir! You took whatever bass drum God and the catalogs intended you to have, and if ya didn't like it, well then too G.D. bad! And if that bass drum just kept ringing after you hit it (what morons call resonance nowadays), you ripped off the front head of that bastard and stuffed a good pillow up against the batter head!
Yes sir, that's the way it was and that's the way it should be. It was good enough for us and it should be good enough for all you young punks who think this new "high-tech" gear is somehow going to make you a better drummer.
[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="4"]Now get off of my lawn you damn kids![/SIZE][/FONT]
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Mike
