I started playing piano at 6, but I always was interested in what the drummer was doing. I had a huge collection of 60's and 70's rock donated to me by my father. My earliest memories of honing in on the drum parts of records were Led Zeppelin II and Master of Reality by Black Sabbath. I sawed a dowel in 2 pieces and played on tupperware for years until the summer I was 13, at which point some friends of my grandparents gave me a crappy drumset, a Kent in terrible shape with some old sheet-brass pos cymbals.

I learned on that kit, and the next fall when I went into 9th grade, we had a new band director. I had been playing french horn in band up to that point, and HATED it. Since all the band staff was new, and they didn't really have who played what recorded in writing anyshere, I knew it was time to make my move! I misrepresented myself successfully as being in the percussion section, and none of the other players said anything contrary. By sophomore year I was 2nd chair, and by junior year 1st chair. I competed on tympani my last 3 years of high school, and made all-state my junior and senior years. I took lessons from a very good instructor named Dale Pless all through, who clued my in on grips, rudiments, and the finer points of tympani and snare drum technique.

Fall of my junior year in high school, my spanish teacher informs me that she has a drumset in her attic she'd like to sell. Turns out it was an early 60's luddy kit, 5pc, in white marine pearl (13" tom, 14" and16" floors, 20" bass, 5"brass supraphonic, and 5" acrolite) with A Zildjian cymbals of the same vintage (20" medium ride, 15" hi-hats, and 16" crash). Cost including crappy 60's hardware (except the 3 speed kings that came with it, those were sweet)? $600.

I have used this kit, sometimes replacing the 20" bass drum with a 24" 70's luddy marching bass I drilled out and put spurs on, ever since. I've thought about buying another kit, but this one just sounds so FAT and consistent, and records so very well. I've recorded everything from grindcore to singer-songwriters to indie pop to pop punk with that kit, and it sounds great every time.








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It all went wrong on a cold autumn night, As the high priestess wept...........wait hold on. wrong story

Ever since I was little I'v wanted to play drums. Banging pots and pans, tupperwares with chopsticks etc. There was drumset at my grandpas house that used to be my dads when he was young. It was a "saturn" by SMG" with some vintage zildjian cymbals and a supraphonic snare. I used to play it a little sometimes when i was there. which wasnt often. eventually I really wanted to play and the set got moved to my house. the cymbals were either crashes or rides. i used on as my ride. and thinking i didn't need 2, I sold the other one to a friend for $40. A 18" vintage zildjian. $40. if i only i knew then what i knew now. my dad bought me some heads for my set and tuned it up for me, and taught me some beats. a little later for my birthday he bought me a 16" A Custom crash. which I absolutely fell in love with. The bright shimmering tone was so much more "for me" than the dark complex tones of the vintage zildjian. I soon joined a punk band with some friends called "decent at best". They still play to this day. I played with them for a while and somewhere down the line recieved a few more cymbals from my friend who was a drummer. At that point I had a full cymbal setup, and actual kit, and a band. after me and the band parted ways I played on my own for a while. building my chops and practicing beats. For my birhday one year e and my dad decided I was ready for a new set. My dad picked out the Mapex M series for me. as it was a great value and came with very sturdy hardware. I bought some more cymbals off ebay. and had a pretty nice setup. not long after that I bought a old gibraltar rack from the same friend that gave me some cymbals for $80. it neede some parts but I got it up and running. I started buying nothing but A customs because I just loved the way those bright cymbals sounded. I started playing metal with my frend joe regueira (Vocalist for The Fatal Effect) my friends chuck and dave. they didnt have proper equptment and none of us has the real talent to play metal. we improved alot and wrote some riffs. it never got off the ground. the guitarist chuck introduced us to his frinds frankie and jesse from bayside (vocalist and guitarist for EMMURE) and his friend sean (Vocalist for ENDWELL) we would always talk metal and about how we should colaberate and do shit togehter. at that point me and joe were in a project called unbridled fury. which was not very seriouse but fun. we have one song recorded in my ghetto basement studio that you can actually still listen to at www.myspace.com/schpedoink . Its called "The Curse" (cheese party is also us)
me and joe had a hard time finding musicians that could keep up with us at this point. as we had been honing our skills for a number of years (though we were far from experts) I got a call from chuck saying that jesse and seans band needed a new drummer. Jesse and sean brought theyre shit over to my basement and we played a bit. our styles werent very compatiable but we tried. dues to transportation complications they didnt get down to my neck of the woods often and jesses and seans stuff just kinda sat there. Jesse called me to pick up his stuff since we never played anyway and went directly into playing in a band you may know as EMMURE. Sean soon after started singing for Endwell. me and my friends continued unbridled fury untill it fell apart. later on I was tod by a friend that this kid we knew's band needed a drummer. I went and tried out and they were floored. After a short period of time our vocalist Bill (bassist for Destroy The Stairs) had to leave because of school. the guitarist Zbigniew (The Ambition) knew a replacement. So tom (Burial Plot) stepped in and we snatched up a matt(Crime In Sterio) from a band which he played guitar in as our bassist. At this point we were seriouse. I was in the market for a new kit. My old teacher was selling his renown maple for $600 with no snare. I snatched that up and added an 8" tom to make it a 6 piece. after learning the deal about that old supraphonic mentioned earlier, that replaced the mapex M snare on my gretsch kit. Our bassist Matt didnt exactly have the dedication, and soon left the band to go back to his other band Divider. Then joined Bellakiss, and is now the bassist for Crime In Sterio. My frind jordan stepped in to play bass (hes a real bassist and goes to school for it) And that would make our current line up. during this whole period our name changed from Shadowleague, to The Brotherhood Of Spies, to The Brotherhood, Finaly to AS HELL BROKE LOOSE. the last one being the only on I approved of. And thats our current name and current lineup. To this day I love mapex products and Buy only A custom cymbals (tho i use K chinas and ride) I'm still playing with As Hell Broke Loose and were tighter than ever.

No nutshell here. Thats my story









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Howepirate wrote:

So a few years back, my friend picked up a guitar for his birthday. He was talented at it and stuck with it and got very good. I thought, "hey, if he can play an instrument, so can i". So, I begged my mom to get me a pulse drumset and she finally did for christmas one year. I worked to get a gibraltar single-chain double pedal just to learn a few little things but I wasn't really into it. Back then, I was really into like Green Day and The Offspring and really had no use for it until a little down the road when I got into The Bled, Shadows Fall and Underoath about, half a year later. So, one day, my friend asks me if I wanna join a band with him, a local metalcore band, so I did and I sucked horribly and all during that time I got involved in a church. So, I left the metalcore band to play at the church and got really into worship music and started to get real groovy with it and I liked playing it a lot.

However, one day, while i was at my current girlfriends house, I thought to listen to this band a friend had told me about, this band was Through The Eyes Of The Dead. They were like something I had never heard before. I couldn't exactly make out the lyrics but the sheer intensity, pain, fight, and brutality of the music just sparked something in me. I decided it was time to start learning some metal.

I stuck with the church band and really got involved in the church and stuff while me and the guitarist for the church decided to start our own little band. We brought this girl Ashley in that was really good at shrill screams and we decided we were gonna cover like old Underoath and stuff. About that time, I had sold my Pulse set (around 2 and a half years later) and convinced my mom to upgrade me to a 4 piece PDP FXR set as it was birch and a very beautiful color and had all the things i was looking for at the time. Things then changed, when Ashley decided to bring in a new guitarist, Danny. Danny is a dude into the heavier parts of metal like Lamb Of God and Job For A Cowboy and stuff (well it was heavier at the time) so I began learning that stuff.

Then I basically fell out of the church, gained a new vocalist;kyle, kicked out ashley, moved around in another town for a bit in different practice spots gaining and loosing band members (most of which very talented) and fast-forwarding about a year and a half, I'm here.

I now listen to death metal, deathcore, black metal, tech death, etc. I am able to play most of it and have hit speeds upwards of 280 BPM with my feet and around 270 with my hands. I have a unique technique I have never really seen anyone use. I can fit into a lot of genres, some better than others. My band mates are, the original Danny, original Kyle, and our latest member;Corey. I have had a ton of good times with Danny and Kyle and we're proud to have been a trio for over a year and a half playing shows all around west Fl.

For the latest of news, in this last week, I've gotten the go-ahead from Danny and Kyle to join my friend Sams band; Beneath The Remains where I'll be shredding in excess of 250 BPM.

Are you sure you can hit singles at 280? I dont know anyone from any band that can play that fast. including derek roddy or george kolias. I think you should try hitting 16ths at 280 with a metronome. you probly think your playing faster than you are.

It was metronome-ed and triggered. It was only for around 7 seconds. You shoulda seen the sweat run down my face after that though.








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"I never said that gear makes the player...I just wanted to exploit the other side of the argument."

my dad's reggae band used to practice at my house in the basement, so there was a kit setup there and i used to mess around on it when I was about five, i was kinda interested, but we had to move into town and the kit was stacked in the corner for about 3 years. On my 8th birthday my grandma gave me $100 to pay for lessons and my dad gave me the old set, since his band had broken-up.

fast forward 4 years to 6th grade general music class. every year since 2nd grade in general music class the kids would would have to get in groups and and sing a song or do a report about a famous composer, gay I know. then me, kevin(bassist), and Logan(singer/guitarist) decided to get together and play the the song "My best friend's girl" by the cars. Logan's father is one of those overbearing parents and picked it for us. I thought it was ok, the drum part was easy and I added some of my own things to the drum part, we played it for the class, and we got picked to play for the th entire midle school.

After that we practised a little and added my friend dayne as a guitarist. we played at a graduation party, a breast care benifit for daynes aunt, another graduation party, and at a church parking lot music festival.
we got paid about $10 each and got free food, which I thought was pretty awesome because I was getting
paid to do what I love.

then to 7nth grade, we practised, got a little better, then Logan's dad's friend's son played drums too, so we had to add him, which pissed me off, but we had to tolerate it cause logan's dad had been booking most of our shows. dayne was dating our math teacher's daughter, so she got us a gig on the last day of school in front of the whole school. pretty sweet huh? i learned some stick spinning tricks and made up a drum solo for the end of the gig, and it was the greatest show ever!!!! it was videotaped too and the whole school was into it, and the school gave us $20 bucks each.

we practised more got better, well me and dayne got better and wanted to play heavier stuff than green day and weezer. I mean they are both solid bands but a guy can only take so much off bass snare bass bass snare. There were a few arguments but we didn't want to end the band over them, so we kept playin'.

over the sommer of 2006 i painted my grandma's shed, which got me 160 bucks, that, combined with my b-day money, bought me my pdp x7, which by the way is an excellent set for its price. we were scheduled to play at the church parking lot music festival again, and that's were it all unravelled.....

since we had two drummers we split the 12 songs in half. matt(the other drummer) would go on first, and I would go on second. and just to tell you by this time everyone is tired of matt cause he always messes up. so matt does his set I go on, I play "steady as she goes" and "welcome to paradise", and then logan decides to do 2 boring ass acoustic songs, which were boring. I had to wait to live till he was gone cuz we were using my set. Logans says his voice hurts and we are done, and he says it won't happen again.the next day we play at the porkfest in kouts, and the same thing happens. I grabbed my sticks and was out a there in about 2 seconds.

that was the end of that band, and so know I just play with dayne and jam by myself. though I started paintballing and that filled the void where the band used to be. basicaly that's my drumming story. i can't imagine my life without it. sorry for the long post.








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"that's a big crock of condensed owl crap"-Eva

Ignorance is the best excuse.

i can't imagine having two drummers in the band and splitting the sets, sorry but that kinda seems lame. i mean i could imagine percussionists, but unless your somebody like godsmack two drummers would be boring...








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I would love to learn percussion but ive invested too much time and way too much money into my kit to just play congas or any other latin percussion. just so you know, everyone in the band was apposed to matt joining.








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And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Drumosaurus, king of drummers, listen to my grooves ye Mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains."

"that's a big crock of condensed owl crap"-Eva

Ignorance is the best excuse.

did he play your kit on his half of the sets?








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DW, Pearl, and Gibraltar Hardware
Sabian, Zildjian, and Saluda Cymbals

www.myspace.com/EOTEband

i've always loved music as long as i can remember and always tried to write songs before i even played an instrument, then about... 4 years ago i got a bass guitar and holy crap! i could finally understand music. About 2 years later i got a new bass and my friend lent me his old guitar and i started playing that. And my brother used to play drums a bit before i started bass and i played whenever he would let me, and whenever he wasnt home and and band prac i would play the drummers kit until everybody got pissed. And eventually i was playing my brothers new kit a lot cause he wasnt at home often, but i wanted to experiment with stuff. U know, flip the snare upside-down inside out, etc and just stupid stuff. So i eventually set up my brothers old kit and everytime i wanted to play would switch the ride and hats (and 1 of the crashes if i could be bothered) and then quickly change them back before he noticed. And slowly 1 bit at a time i've been replacing parts from the kit, I now own all my own cymbals and dont have 1 piece to the kit that is from the same kit, so yeh... as others said its pretty "ghetto" but i love it cause i didnt just buy it, i dont have an old and a new, its a thing that is constantly changing and always will be and every point it will always be my kit, not my NEW kit, not my OLD kit, but MY kit. And while i began building my kit i made an electric guitar and got an amp, etc, and now my gf's gone i've turned my brothers old crappy guitar into a hobo guitar with a strap made out of clothes line so i've got something to do all day. Maybe drums isnt my life, but music certainly is








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Pearl & Mirage kit.
Crappiato Snare
Steve's Back! ..............kinda

I was one of those kids who played on pots and pans and shit. I actually took guitar lessons for about 3 weeks but then i quit cause the teacher was a douche. For awhile I did vocal shit. It got really lame though. When I was about 12 I got me first set. I played that thing for hours. I soon was in a shitty punk band that never practiced. We sucked hard ass. Then I met my buddy noah who got me into metal. About the same time I picked up a new drumset. Me and noah started to jam with him on guitar. It started sounded pretty good.
Only about a year ago did I actually get serious though. We started a band and I began to update my gear and such. I got my current set in february and I've been through a few bands. Things are going good though. I know I've just started my drumming career and can only hope it takes me somewheres.

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wow guys, I didn't think I'de get such a turn out for stories! I'll start reading now! haha. I'm already excited!








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EOTE_drummer wrote:

did he play your kit on his half of the sets?

ya. except for the time at the porkfest, we were using the previous band's kit.








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And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Drumosaurus, king of drummers, listen to my grooves ye Mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains."

"that's a big crock of condensed owl crap"-Eva

Ignorance is the best excuse.