diosdude
Silver Member
Okay, last night my band played this bar down here in Miami called Tobacco Road. Place is a damn dive. Built in like 1915, billed as "Miami's oldest bar" but it serves booze til 5am and it has live bands, usually multiple, 7 days a week, everything from blues, rock, reggaeton, Funk you name it. It's also supposed to be on the "A" list of clubs for metal bands, everyone who was ever anyone in south florida who got signed played in this dive many times, so it was supposed to be an important gig. My rant is about the state of the "house" kit i had to play on. A beat up Yamaha stage custom with pitted out hardware, heads like as old as the hills. That i could deal with. What i couldn't deal with was the size of the drums: the 2 rack toms which were mounted to the bass drum were fricken huge. impossible for me to negotiate a tom angle so they pointed a little toward me. The only way to position them was basically pointing straight up. Excaserbating it was the fact that they were super deep power depth toms. Rim Shot city. The ironic thing was that i could have actually set up my own 8 pc rack mounted kit in half the time i took trying to position stands and trying to get tom angles that just weren't happening. And yeah before anyone says "it's not the drumkit, it's the drummer behind the kit", let me just say, we stole the show as normal but it was like jimmie Johnson trying to win the Daytona 500 in a station wagon.
Okay, deep breath. Woo-Sah. Woo-Sah.
Done ranting
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Okay, deep breath. Woo-Sah. Woo-Sah.
Done ranting
Eject