DrumEatDrum
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3) Rebelling against the old "hair metal" large kits, just like punk did back in its day against classic and prog-rock "dinosaurs"
Interesting how everything old is new again. Heck, even I've been playing a four-piece recently!
Yes, but this started in 1991/1992.
When Nirvana got big, and Dave Grohl had the 4 pc. you saw tons and tons of drummers scale down their kits to a 4 pc.
And that was over 20 years ago.
I don't really get the OP's point. It's not a new thing, it's been going on for a while.
Working in drum shops from the late 80's into the early 90's, it was tough because around 92, suddenly no one wanted to buy a multi-tom kit anymore.
I imagine many people out there rocking the 1 up set up are doing so because that was the popular set up in the 90's, so it's what they grew up with.
In my humble opinion, It's the people who are willing to set up a 2nd rack tom are the ones rebelling against the trend. lol