Airborne Ranger wrote:

You aren't going to get much sympathy from me. The set I had when I was 13 was a cheap Japanese knock-off mismatched set with duct tape hold the toms in place and hardware that a good breeze could knock over, but it was all my parents could afford and I cherished it. Stop complaining about what you don't have, there is someone who would love to have a set as nice as the PDPs. Enjoy them.

Dude, fully. My first kit was a cheap Taiwanese kit that I paid for by mowing lawns. Kids are really spoiled these days.








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Dr. Rodney McKay wrote:

Well, I only know one thing and that is that flying darkness that eats energy can only be very, very bad.

http://www.MySpace.com/PageFive

not TOTALLY 100% true


all my drum equipment ($4000 (£2000) ) came outta my pocket
working your ass off helps

plus i dont like moochin off my parents








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Mapex/Pearl/Meinl/Remo/Pro-Mark/Axis used and abused!! \m/

I paid for my first kit with money I saved in the first year I worked after high school. I didnt buy the kit, but I paid for it. My parents only knew one name in drums, and when the ad came out in the paper, they emptied my bank account, and bought them. A thousand dollars was a lot of money in 1979, even for a used kit. I still have those Rogers.








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ThePloughman

ThePloughman wrote:

Duct Tape, Moongells, and Remos...... with pinstripes

Rogers Drums USA

Check this out
http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?t=196158

drummerduba wrote:

not TOTALLY 100% true


all my drum equipment ($4000 (£2000) ) came outta my pocket
working your ass off helps

plus i dont like moochin off my parents

This is true. However, when I was growing up very few kids had $2k+ kits as their first or second kits. It's how my generation views parenting. There seems to be this predominant feeling that kids should get whatever they want with the least amount of work. Which is why your generation is so screwed up. I know a lady who doesn't buy enough medication for her diabetes because she doesn't have enough money. But her kids have a 360, several games, iphones, etc. because she just wants them to be happy. Know what? Those kids still complain.








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Dr. Rodney McKay wrote:

Well, I only know one thing and that is that flying darkness that eats energy can only be very, very bad.

http://www.MySpace.com/PageFive

SGarrett wrote:

drummerduba wrote:

not TOTALLY 100% true


all my drum equipment ($4000 (£2000) ) came outta my pocket
working your ass off helps

plus i dont like moochin off my parents

This is true. However, when I was growing up very few kids had $2k+ kits as their first or second kits. It's how my generation views parenting. There seems to be this predominant feeling that kids should get whatever they want with the least amount of work. Which is why your generation is so screwed up. I know a lady who doesn't buy enough medication for her diabetes because she doesn't have enough money. But her kids have a 360, several games, iphones, etc. because she just wants them to be happy. Know what? Those kids still complain.

+1 What he said. Its weird. 300 dollar tennis shoes and live in the projects. I dont get it. I was in the third grade before I understood that Value Village was not a department store.








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ThePloughman

ThePloughman wrote:

Duct Tape, Moongells, and Remos...... with pinstripes

Rogers Drums USA

Check this out
http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?t=196158

You got plenty of life to get the kit you want! Just think in a few years there will be something bigger and better out there you will want....I've bought lots of stuff in my 28 years, and always found out it didn't matter what I bought, I could always find something "different" I wanted instead....Not any more....








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Aleks wrote:

You got plenty of life to get the kit you want! Just think in a few years there will be something bigger and better out there you will want....I've bought lots of stuff in my 28 years, and always found out it didn't matter what I bought, I could always find something "different" I wanted instead....Not any more....

Does your hi-hat actually cover your snare that much?
Not being a pain, just wondering.








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When I was a kid, I had to scrounge parts from every second hand store I could find just to get my 70's import kit to look and sound half decent... I got metal dowels from the hardware store to use as bass spurs, I hit up other drummers for their old stuff, I sat with wd-40 and and an old t-shirt for hours trying to clean all the metal..

The process of reviving an old kit that had spent years in a beach shed rusting and corroding was easily one of the most rewarding experiences of my youth, I remember the day I got the chrome to shine again, not only had I brought a kit back from the dead, but it didn't cost much money and it gave me a sense of pride in that kit...