Bo Eder
Platinum Member
I've been playing the Pearl drums exclusively for the last four months or so, utilizing an SSC 6.5x14 snare with the Reference Pures, and a 5.5 Vision birch with my VBL bop kit, and out of looking lonely in the corner, I put my 5x14 Supra with the bop kit, and my 6.5x14 '79 Supra with the Reference Pures.
It was sort of like that Claritin commercial where before the drug, you're in a headcold fog, and with the drug the fog clears and everything is crystal clear. It just put a smile on my face. It also made me think, I could get any high-end snare drum, Brady, Noble & Cooley, Guru, Craviotto, whatever,.....and I'd eventually veer back towards home and the Supras.
I even owned the venerated Black Beauty (a 5x14 back then) and eventually went back to the good ol' Ludalloy Supra too.
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me. How can one's brain get so connected to one snare drum that he eventually returns to it over and over? It probably doesn't help that I've been listening to Supraphonic snares all my life I suppose - and it was probably mostly Hal Blaine's, Gary Chester's, or Earl Palmer's - since those guys would've played for all the hits made from the 60s through the late 80s. I went to see Marco Minneman with the Aristocrats and although he played a beautiful DW kit, his main snare was a Supraphonic (a little DW snare was off to the side). The Supra is reminding me of the old monster movie "IT conquered the world" or something like that.
It's so nice to have all these choices in snares. Too bad I don't use them.
It was sort of like that Claritin commercial where before the drug, you're in a headcold fog, and with the drug the fog clears and everything is crystal clear. It just put a smile on my face. It also made me think, I could get any high-end snare drum, Brady, Noble & Cooley, Guru, Craviotto, whatever,.....and I'd eventually veer back towards home and the Supras.
I even owned the venerated Black Beauty (a 5x14 back then) and eventually went back to the good ol' Ludalloy Supra too.
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with me. How can one's brain get so connected to one snare drum that he eventually returns to it over and over? It probably doesn't help that I've been listening to Supraphonic snares all my life I suppose - and it was probably mostly Hal Blaine's, Gary Chester's, or Earl Palmer's - since those guys would've played for all the hits made from the 60s through the late 80s. I went to see Marco Minneman with the Aristocrats and although he played a beautiful DW kit, his main snare was a Supraphonic (a little DW snare was off to the side). The Supra is reminding me of the old monster movie "IT conquered the world" or something like that.
It's so nice to have all these choices in snares. Too bad I don't use them.