CREEM'S 1985 DRUM SUPPLEMENT
The heroes of rock drumming will always be (have always been) what David Garibaldi refers to as "thinking drummers.” And if you’re tired of playing the same old licks, if you have nightmares about being eaten by a drum machine, I would strongly suggest that you journey backwards in time to pay aural homage to the pioneers of rock drumming.
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CREEM'S 1985 DRUM SUPPLEMENT
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by
Scott K. Fish
The heroes of rock drumming will always be (have always been) what David Garibaldi refers to as "thinking drummers.” And if you’re tired of playing the same old licks, if you have nightmares about being eaten by a drum machine, I would strongly suggest that you journey backwards in time to pay aural homage to the pioneers of rock drumming. And who knows? Perhaps listening to them will spark an idea, a new direction in your own mind that no one else has thought of before. Suddenly, you’re a thinking drummer!
Of course, owning good equipment does help. Help what? It only helps you to exercise your own ideas. Owning the right equipment helps. Trying to doctor a 5x14 snare drum to sound like an 8 x 14 snare drum (unless you have access to a recording studio) can be very frustrating—ending only with a drum that’s miserable to play on. But here’s the point. There is no product, in and of itself, that is going to make you a better drummer. Equipment does not produce ideas. Equipment does not create talent. In fact, equipment does nothing! Left alone, it just sits there. It takes a thinking human being to turn a product into a creative tool.
The question I want to raise in CREEM’s ’85 Drum Supplement is this: With all of the new products on the market, is the music getting any better? Or, more to the point, is your musicianship getting better?
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