Showing posts with label DW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DW. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 July 2016

Porn Again


We've all done it. Drummers, that is. All looked longingly at those beautiful kits – often the ones that we can't quite afford and that we wouldn't have room to store anyway.

I already have the perfect kit for me: a DW Collector's Series in pure white (well, almost, give or take a few scrapes and scratches from gigging).

So why – when Wembley Music Centre emails me with pictures of all the latest DW kits to arrive at its London store – do I sit and start salivating over them? This is drum pornography, of course. We just like looking at pictures of these wonderful objects, even though we can't have them, and, in truth, we don't need them.

But if you're interested in percussion pornography, check out DW drum kits at the Wembley Music Centre. And if you actually want to own one of these great kits, hand-made in California, you'd better get on it. Prices for British buyers can only go up, thanks to all those good folk who voted for Brexit.




Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Love Over Gold


I've been away... for a long time... I'm back. And I'm still playing drums. In fact, thanks to the musicians I play with, I suspect that I'm generally drumming my best so far.

I'm lucky too to have the trusty DW kit which has now many times over repaid the major investment that it represented. No, I'm not going to say how much it cost...

Some drummers are not so reticent about mentioning the value of their gear.

Mick Fleetwood (above) - a seriously under-rated drummer who has always been a master timekeeper and band-driver - also plays DW drums. But they sound as though they are a tad more expensive than mine.

"All of my drum kits are coated in 18-carat gold," he explained in a recent interview. And he has a new kit made up by DW every time he tours. The end result, apparently, is a warehouse full of gold-plated drums and stands.

Much as I love Fleetwood's playing, I find it difficult to get my head round the need for such excess.

Why so many kits? And why the gold?

One perfect Collector's Series DW kit is enough for a lifetime, I reckon.