I'm Matt. I live in Virginia, about to be 21, and majoring in political science and philosophy. Go ahead, ask me what Bishop Berkeley thought about the existence of an external world outside of our sense perception... just kidding, you probably don't want to know.

I spend most of my time working, classing, reading, vegetating, and of course playing the drums. I'm also trying to learn a little guitar. Oh, also I'll be graduating in a semester and have no idea what to do with my life, haha. Let's see, what else... I like sushi, any kind of lesser known horror and sci-fi movies (and interesting hollywood stuff like Lost In Translation), and I like pretty much any kind of rock / jazz / non-rap music I've ever heard, but earlier indie-emo type stuff in the vein of Sunny Day Real Estate in particular.

There you go, more than you ever wanted to know. Also, DBJ, what is your avatar?

[QUOTE=the thing that should never be]Definitely. That band is great. Dave puts out some cool stuff that isn't overly technical, but sounds so cool with the songs.[/QUOTE]

It's an emerson lake and plamer album cover from tarkus, it's an old ww1 tank body with an animal head and shell back.

If your user title is refering to land of the dead then yes it's going to be GREAT!

^^
About Land of the Dead:

I can't wait to see it, I think Night was one of the first movies I can ever remember watching. I've been a big fan of his for a while. I still say Day is the best out of those movies...

I whipped this up in photoshop a while ago, lemme knwo what you guys think: [IMG]http://www.geocities.com/drazinus06/reaper.gif[/IMG]

[-Draz-]

Hahaha nice.

Yea day had some really food stuff in it, alot of people rip that movie to shreds too.

Hey everyone, I'm Kristina, I'm 21, I'm a senior chemistry major at SCU here in California. I've been playing drums for about 2 years now and I mostly lurk here on the forum. I just bought a vintage 1964 Ludwig Super Classic today for $575 and I've spent the past 3 hours cleaning the 40 years worth of gunk all over it when I should be doing some homework.:) Here's a pic of my new baby (the treadmill and the weight machine in the back kinda ruin it, I know)

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/vintagedrummer/side.jpg[/IMG]

In terms of what type of music I like, I love underground, retro garage type stuff like the Reigning Sound and kickass 60s garage bands. I absolutely adore Charlie Watts. I like the old school style of drumming; for me personally, the simpler, the better. Which is why I love Charlie and why I love vintage kits. :cool:

[QUOTE=sugarandstripes]Hey everyone, I'm Kristina, I'm 21, I'm a senior chemistry major at SCU here in California. I've been playing drums for about 2 years now and I mostly lurk here on the forum. I just bought a vintage 1964 Ludwig Super Classic today for $575 and I've spent the past 3 hours cleaning the 40 years worth of gunk all over it when I should be doing some homework.:) Here's a pic of my new baby (the treadmill and the weight machine in the back kinda ruin it, I know)

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/vintagedrummer/side.jpg[/IMG]

In terms of what type of music I like, I love underground, retro garage type stuff like the Reigning Sound and kickass 60s garage bands. I absolutely adore Charlie Watts. I like the old school style of drumming; for me personally, the simpler, the better. Which is why I love Charlie and why I love vintage kits. :cool:[/QUOTE]


Holy ****. A Super Classic? My god, that thing looks so **** beautiful. That was the model Ringo Starr played on. Holy ****ing ****, you got it to look so beautiful and nice?

Will you marry me? :naughty:

why the hell does every body say ringo star was so good

[QUOTE]Will you marry me? :naughty:[/QUOTE]

Haha! :p Actually that's how it looked when I brought it home. The cool thing about sparkle finishes is that it can hide a lot of dirt and scratches and stuff. By the time I'm done cleaning and polishing it, that thing will look like new. Yeah that's the same model that Ringo played on, which makes it even cooler.

Hey D&P :wave:

EDIT: Jim Fast Fingers wanted me to ask you if you could change his name to MX Dancin' Man.

If that's ok with you.

[QUOTE=puppet.master]why the hell does every body say ringo star was so good[/QUOTE]

So please, quote me where I said Ringo Star[B]r[/B] was so good? Stay in this thread please. And tell me everyone else who said that too. After all, everyone is supposidly saying it all the time!

[QUOTE=Simple Man]Hey D&P :wave:

EDIT: Jim Fast Fingers wanted me to ask you if you could change his name to MX Dancin' Man.

If that's ok with you.[/QUOTE]
Ok he's set.

Thanks man, Or he says Thanks.

No prob, glad to help ya.

yes, as a late reply DBJ, I'm all about the new Dead movie.

Also, to whoever said Day of the Dead rocked, although it's my least favorite of the three movies I agree it's very underrated. Everybody bashes it but I think it had by far the best effects and visceral feeling to it, which is pretty important in a zombie movie. And you can't beat the opening city scene... always sends a shiver up my spine.

Feel free to IM me if you're ever bored and wanna talk about horror and scifi movies DBJ ... yeah, I'm a dork.

Hmm, talk about off topic... um, drums rock!

[QUOTE=sugarandstripes]Hey everyone, I'm Kristina, I'm 21, I'm a senior chemistry major at SCU here in California. I've been playing drums for about 2 years now and I mostly lurk here on the forum. I just bought a vintage 1964 Ludwig Super Classic today for $575 and I've spent the past 3 hours cleaning the 40 years worth of gunk all over it when I should be doing some homework.:) Here's a pic of my new baby (the treadmill and the weight machine in the back kinda ruin it, I know)

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/vintagedrummer/side.jpg[/IMG]

In terms of what type of music I like, I love underground, retro garage type stuff like the Reigning Sound and kickass 60s garage bands. I absolutely adore Charlie Watts. I like the old school style of drumming; for me personally, the simpler, the better. Which is why I love Charlie and why I love vintage kits. :cool:[/QUOTE]


Man, that is a SMOKIN kit!! You found a gem there.

Ok, so is this like a D&P community thread?

[QUOTE=ledpoisoning27]My name is Mike, and i live in a northern Chicago suburb. I've been drumming for a year and a half. My music tastes are classic rock and late folk and blues. my favorite and most influential drummers are John Bonham, Keith Moon, Mitch Mitchell, and Ginger Baker. o and the weather sucks up here right now![/QUOTE]

Love your inspirations, love your avatar. 'Cept mine is better :D

Whatsup everyone?

Yeah exactly Ken.

First post in the Drum Stronghold. w00t and all that. Seems to be a different place to the Guitar Stronghold. Or rather, the Guitar Strong[b]lod[/b] II. First one had over 4000 pages. Think it was the biggest thread on MX. You may have guessed, it was a spamfest. Before it was deleted, I had over 6,000 posts :eek:.

Do I have a point? Ummm, no I don't think so. Hmm. Drums. Ok, I'll tell you about my drum kits. Yes, kits. Result of divorced parents, you get two of everything.

Kit 1
Honher Percussion with Pearl EXP steel snare.
22x16
12x10
13x11
16x16
14x5

Zildjian A Mastersound hi hats, 14"
Sabian HH Raw Bell Dry Ride, 21"


Kit 2
Reasonably old (not vintage) Tama kit. Imperial Star or something. Stewart Copeland used to use a similar kit I think. 9 ply mahogany shells, grey/white/black flecked paint on the inside. Not sure on sizes, but I'll guess. Drums with * have only batter head.
22x16
8x6*
10x8*
12x10*
13x10*
12x10
13x10
16x16
14x5 Tama Steel snare (aux snare)
14x4 Pearl John "JR" Robinson snare (main snare, discontinued series)

Zildjian Scimitar cymbals, 20" ride, 16" crash, 14" hats.


Wow, that was a long post.

[QUOTE=spirit]First post in the Drum Stronghold. w00t and all that. Seems to be a different place to the Guitar Stronghold. Or rather, the Guitar Strong[b]lod[/b] II. First one had over 4000 pages. Think it was the biggest thread on MX. You may have guessed, it was a spamfest. Before it was deleted, I had over 6,000 posts :eek:.

Do I have a point? Ummm, no I don't think so. Hmm. Drums. Ok, I'll tell you about my drum kits. Yes, kits. Result of divorced parents, you get two of everything.

Kit 1
Honher Percussion with Pearl EXP steel snare.
22x16
12x10
13x11
16x16
14x5

Zildjian A Mastersound hi hats, 14"
Sabian HH Raw Bell Dry Ride, 21"


Kit 2
Reasonably old (not vintage) Tama kit. Imperial Star or something. Stewart Copeland used to use a similar kit I think. 9 ply mahogany shells, grey/white/black flecked paint on the inside. Not sure on sizes, but I'll guess. Drums with * have only batter head.
22x16
8x6*
10x8*
12x10*
13x10*
12x10
13x10
16x16
14x5 Tama Steel snare (aux snare)
14x4 Pearl John "JR" Robinson snare (main snare, discontinued series)

Zildjian Scimitar cymbals, 20" ride, 16" crash, 14" hats.


Wow, that was a long post.[/QUOTE]
I want your Imperialstar and your JR snare. Give them to me now....

hey im Rolie Chavez Jr.

hobbies= Drums, Reading, Magic Tricks

from texas and i dont ride horses

[QUOTE=the thing that should never be]I want your Imperialstar and your JR snare. Give them to me now....[/QUOTE]

Hmmmmmm, nah, I think I'll keep them. D'you wanna hear the best part? The entire second kit was £300. £100 of that was the JR snare.

Yikes 300 bucks! Man thats amazing those were great drums too.

Guitar Stronghold still is a spamfest, It had 1000 post in less than a day, and a bunch of "rep whoring" too. I have 15k and soon I'll be off the first page :lol:

[QUOTE=Double Bass Jim]Yikes 300 bucks! Man thats amazing those were great drums too.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately, no, not 300 USD, but 300 GBP, which equals 575 USD. Still a pretty good deal I feel.

[QUOTE=Simple Man]Guitar Stronghold still is a spamfest, It had 1000 post in less than a day, and a bunch of "rep whoring" too. I have 15k and soon I'll be off the first page :lol:[/QUOTE]

I didn't say it wasn't, did I? It's a total spamfest.

Haha, No, I was agreeing with you.

Ah right, sorry for the misunderstanding. It is a bit unruly. On the other hand, it stops spam from filtering into the erious threads. Usually.

Yeah true, but no real discussion is held there just, "rep me" and other stupid stuff.