Musician vapers or vapers with other hobbies

[iamtumus]

steely dan is a favorite of mine, second only to fleetwood mac.
i'd go straight for stevie knicks

 

[oxygen thief]

Most of the grunge drummers went one up, two down like Bonhams kits. It's a great look and brings your ride cymbal down lower so you're hand doesn't go to sleep playing it. Everybody uses double bass pedals these days. Two bass drums are for the big boys, they have drum techs to put that stuff together. Metal drummers are the big double pedal guys. Portneys sick.

Some drummers use electronics to an extent but it's just a tool. You still have to be damn good. Buddy Rich played one up two down and is the greatest drummer to ever live. If you ask the best drummers in the world today the answer is Buddy. Check some drummer vids if you want, I'm on their forum too.
DRUMMERWORLD - The World of Drummers and Drums

It seems that since the grunge era began in the early 90's, the tendency towards bigger drum kits with lots of(or any) mounted toms came to an abrupt end! Suddenly everyone plays simpler kits with maybe 1 mounted tom and 2 or more floor toms. Roto-toms are out, lots of cymbals were out, double bass drums were pretty much out, etc. But you still had the heavy metal and hard rock drummers who kept the large kits with 10+ cymbals, 5+ mounted toms, 2-3 floor toms, double bass, etc. To each his/her own, but I still love to watch guys like Mike Portnoy play a HUGE drumset, and regularly hit each and every piece though!

I think with a lot of today's musicians, unfortunately its more a product of not being all that talented, so therefore not needing many drums or cymbals! Not to knock guys from the 80's and before who used basic kits but were extremely talented(including jazz drummers), but I think much of todays "musicians" probably use pre-programmed digital drum machines to lay down the percussion tracks in the studio anyway!

I was watching a video on youtube recently where a person posted a video of ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, and posted that Grohl is the best drummer ever. I kinda got in an argument about that one!

 

[HighlanderNorth]

steely dan is a favorite of mine, second only to fleetwood mac.
i'd go straight for stevie knicks

I was listening to "Dont Take me Alive" off The Royal Scam the other day, and the solos in that song were done by Larry Carlton as I recall, not Elliot Randall who played on that album and others, and although Elliott has probably gotten more acclaim for his leads in other Steely Dan songs, I think Dont Take Me Alive is probably a tougher song to do live from a lead guitar standpoint than many other Steely Dan songs, and one of my favorite all time lead guitar songs....

 

[HighlanderNorth]

Most of the grunge drummers went one up, two down like Bonhams kits. It's a great look and brings your ride cymbal down lower so you're hand doesn't go to sleep playing it. Everybody uses double bass pedals these days. Two bass drums are for the big boys, they have drum techs to put that stuff together. Metal drummers are the big double pedal guys. Portneys sick.

Some drummers use electronics to an extent but it's just a tool. You still have to be damn good. Buddy Rich played one up two down and is the greatest drummer to ever live. If you ask the best drummers in the world today the answer is Buddy. Check some drummer vids if you want, I'm on their forum too.
DRUMMERWORLD - The World of Drummers and Drums

I was talking about bands that dont even bother putting their drummer behind a drum kit in the studio, and instead lay the drum tracks down with a computer or drum machine.

 

[jonnypanic]

I've been playing in DC/Baltimore punk bands for a while. Currently play bass in a DC-based band, getting old and not getting out of town as much but still doing it. Last week played my first show ever with no smokes, just some stealth vapes.

 

[gimmieshelter31]

I'm not a musician but I like Bill Bruford, Buddy Miles and Peter Rivera's drumming. I'm sure there are many who were as good or better.

My hobby is audio , particularly vinyl records. I'm not an audiophile , I don't have the budget. I've had people say they like the crackling for nostalgic purposes. Vinyl can be quiet when not damaged and the dynamic range is wonderful. Of course there is poorly recorded music in all formats . I get a thrill out of getting music I really like for a buck or so. An album , not a one song download.

 

[TulsaClint]

Not a musician, although I do and have owned guitars that I try to play, but I'm not a musician by any means.....What I do enjoy is mountain bikes (and my girlfriend's bike, she made me say that...sadly...her's is the cooler flat black bike [although I got a Fox fork and XT ]), beers, and my pets (my dog wouldn't participate in the photo session, too late for her I guess). My cat is the large grey one in the beer box (yes that is a 12 pack box for reference and he can barely fit his big ... into it), my girlfriend's cat is the black and white cat pwning my cat in the 3rd picture (she's like 1/3 his weight, still she kicks his ... and he takes it, .

Added a pic of my dog, going home after picking her up from g'ma's and heading home after a vacation labor day weekend.

So here it is:

 

[jb80]

Well, I enjoy music and going to see music but sadly have the musical talent of a brick.

I used to be into loads of things but since having kids they have become my main hobby, but the one thing I do get time to do and enjoy quite a lot is astronomy.
It's a great past time and I have a couple of scopes, recently I have been getting more into solar viewing and have a modded PST which gives amazing views of solar flares and surface detail.
Is there an astronomy thread here somewhere? If not there should be.

Also I am just starting to learn how to grind my own mirrors and want to build a telescope which is going to be a long project.

Here is a pic of my solar scope.

 

[Vapor Fiend]

Musician and audio engineer here. Job market for it is gone these days so now I'm a machinist. I play bass in a band called Shadow Threat but I'm mostly a guitarist/solo recording artist

my music:

whcaudio's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

 

[oxygen thief]

I was listening to "Dont Take me Alive" off The Royal Scam the other day, and the solos in that song were done by Larry Carlton as I recall, not Elliot Randall who played on that album and others, and although Elliott has probably gotten more acclaim for his leads in other Steely Dan songs, I think Dont Take Me Alive is probably a tougher song to do live from a lead guitar standpoint than many other Steely Dan songs, and one of my favorite all time lead guitar songs....

My favorite lead part has always been reeling In The Years, I love it. This video Peg - Steely Dan - The Making Of - YouTube is about the making of Peg. They went through 5 guitarist before they got what they wanted. I think it was five. I love a lot of bands but Steely Dan has always been the ones I listen to anytime. I caught their tour in the early 70s. Lucky.
They said that Steve Gadd, walked in cold and did the Aja drum track in one take. That's only one reason they call him Steve God.
On the drum machines in the studio, Dusty and Billy recorded a ZZTop song with a drum machine behind Franks back. LOL It went on the album that way.
Thanks for all the posts great hearing about this stuff.

 

[classwife]

Moved to The Lounge from General E-Smoking Discussion

 

[HighlanderNorth]

Can someone explain to me(in laymans terms) the advantage to Google Chrome?