Thursday, December 26, 2024

Seeking traditional Rudimental sticks, pre-1980

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A follow-up from my post of a couple weeks ago. Here are most of my pre-1980 Rudimental sticks lined up to show the subtle differences in le...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

Tom’s Pad: great practice pad, could be bigger.

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In going through my pad holdings and determining which pads I’m keeping as I downsize, I came across my Tom’s Pad , offered by Volkwein’s Mu...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

Tried and Like in 2024

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This is a topic that used to appear annually in my bicycle blog bikelovejones . After I left the bicycle industry (and even more so after Co...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Crap just keeps getting crappier: The arms race is over and I’m done.

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The latest from Xymox, the Voldemort of drum practice pad makers, appeared in my feed today. That’s right. Oblivious to the patent and trade...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

When an expensive new pad is just… expensive

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There’s a new pad on the market, by a company that just filed an LLC last month. Live Edge Drum Company is marketing a practice pad made of ...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

The future of drum sticks?

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If you read various chat boards (Reddit, DrumForum.com, etc.) you may notice a lot of griping about two things: 1. The increasing price of w...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Throwback: Promark DC6 marching sticks

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I like using marching sticks for Rudimental practice, especially on my larger tunable pads. The heft feels great and I don’t feel like I hav...