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she fell in love with became a drummer!
so as i have mentioned before, over the past year or so, scud has been teaching me drums. well as my move to DC becomes more real and imminent, I have been thinking more and more of investing in my own drum kit that i can take with me. so over the past few weeks, I have been trolling craigslist and a week or so ago, i came across what i thought was a really good deal. only bummer is, it was all the way out in Norwalk CT. luckily! my boyfriend has a car, so we took the risk of wasting two hours worth of time and gas driving there and back, but it was TOTALLY WORTH IT:
ok, so the picture quality is crappy, but it's a set of yamahas (i don't know exactly which type, either turbo tour or model series?).
i got a (1) 24" kick, (2) 16" floor tome, (3) 14x6.5(!!!)" snare, (4) 8" and (5) 10" rack toms, the rack hardware, (6) a snare stand, (7) a throne, (8, 9, & 10) 3 cymbal stands, (11) a hit hat stand, (12) a double (boo!) kick drum pedal, (13) 14" zildjian hit hats, (14) a 18" zildjian med crash, (15) a 16" zildjian med crash, (16) a paiste 20" ride, and (17) another paiste crash. the paiste cymbals aren't that great and i'm not jazzed about a double-kick-drum-pedal, but everything else RULEZZZ. plus i got all of that, EVERYTHING I JUST TYPED (17 ITMES!!!) for only $550. $550!?!?!?!!?! maybe i'm crazy or too full of my own bargain-hunting skills, but it seems like an AMAZING deal to me. i got the drums late wednesday night, and yesterday i got new kick drum and snare heads ($55), but right as i was tuning the snare drum head, the band that has scud and i's practice room on thursdays came in, so i haven't been able to play them yet, TRAGEDY!
luckily, i will play them tonight AND I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'll make sure to report back and let you know how it goes.....
so as i have mentioned before, over the past year or so, scud has been teaching me drums. well as my move to DC becomes more real and imminent, I have been thinking more and more of investing in my own drum kit that i can take with me. so over the past few weeks, I have been trolling craigslist and a week or so ago, i came across what i thought was a really good deal. only bummer is, it was all the way out in Norwalk CT. luckily! my boyfriend has a car, so we took the risk of wasting two hours worth of time and gas driving there and back, but it was TOTALLY WORTH IT:
ok, so the picture quality is crappy, but it's a set of yamahas (i don't know exactly which type, either turbo tour or model series?).
i got a (1) 24" kick, (2) 16" floor tome, (3) 14x6.5(!!!)" snare, (4) 8" and (5) 10" rack toms, the rack hardware, (6) a snare stand, (7) a throne, (8, 9, & 10) 3 cymbal stands, (11) a hit hat stand, (12) a double (boo!) kick drum pedal, (13) 14" zildjian hit hats, (14) a 18" zildjian med crash, (15) a 16" zildjian med crash, (16) a paiste 20" ride, and (17) another paiste crash. the paiste cymbals aren't that great and i'm not jazzed about a double-kick-drum-pedal, but everything else RULEZZZ. plus i got all of that, EVERYTHING I JUST TYPED (17 ITMES!!!) for only $550. $550!?!?!?!!?! maybe i'm crazy or too full of my own bargain-hunting skills, but it seems like an AMAZING deal to me. i got the drums late wednesday night, and yesterday i got new kick drum and snare heads ($55), but right as i was tuning the snare drum head, the band that has scud and i's practice room on thursdays came in, so i haven't been able to play them yet, TRAGEDY!
luckily, i will play them tonight AND I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'll make sure to report back and let you know how it goes.....