DW never put out crap and slapped Camco on it
what do you call PDP? not saying all PDP's are crap they do made a really nice top end PDP but the bottom end is bottom of the barrel.
DW never put out crap and slapped Camco on it
Ah, the drums that sorta defined the 80s before Drum Workshop took off. I had a set and they sounded wonderful. But I feared becoming a clone at the time
Great drums. It's nice that they're still being made. If it was Tama, they would've been re-designed about seven times by now.
what do you call PDP? not saying all PDP's are crap they do made a really nice top end PDP but the bottom end is bottom of the barrel.
DW never put out crap and slapped Camco on it
Yamaha lost my respect after the way they treated Peter Erskine.
I heard of this rumor. Is it true he really just wanted light weight hardware and Yamaha wouldn't do it? I was tempted to ask the Yamaha folks at NAMM last year.
when I asked Peter he said there was much more to it than that and that he wasn't interested in getting into it because he is very happy with DW
he said this sitting behind a Craviotto kit that he had just purchased which I was filming him behind
on the video he starts singing....." I can't wait to see this on YouTube"
hahahaha
I'll show you the vid if you are interested ......I just promised him I would not make it public
I would enjoy this if you'd be willing to share it with me, Gvd.
Gadd put Recording Customs on the map. Hell, he put birch drums on the map. This was back in the early 80s, when drum sounds were different, though. Tastes in drum sounds have changed, so marketing these kits is probably harder than it used to be.
Shallow toms, birch, 22 x 18, all black.... hmmm... metal drummers would eat these up if Yamaha marketed it at them. In fact, isn't Tama doing that exact thing now with the Silverstar line?
Maybe so. I'm not a metal drummer so I won't pretend to know what the average metal drummer is looking for. But for loud music, birch seems like an unlikely choice. It's nice to have pre-EQd drums for recording, but RCs aren't known for projection.
But hey, you can market anything, I guess.
The Rogers name was acquired by Yamaha Music USA in the aftermath of the Brook Mays bankruptcy (Brook Mays had owned the Rogers name and had gone under owing Yamaha a sum that I have heard to be somewhere between $500k and $1M). Yamaha Japan told Yamaha USA to get the money back and the cheap-o Rogers badged drums was how they were doing it.
Brook Mays was at least using the old beaver tail lug hardware and making some quality drums
when they were acquired by Yamaha as part of the settlement Yamaha proceeded to produce complete crap and slap the Rogers name on it
so yeah I blame Yamaha
they could have kept the name alive and put out some really nice drums having the rights to one of the most respected names in drum manufacturing
but they chose to release complete crap
For god's sakes. Get over it. Roger's stopped being Roger's in the 80's . Brooks May's never produced a real Roger's product. Yamaha didn't hurt the Roger's name it was already dead and buried.