Yup and yup to Oberheim OB-X and yes, i had a set of Remo Rototoms. Also had the Tama Octobahns too i remember when Zildjian was Zindjian... before dad died and the brothers faught and split it up to Zildjian and Sabian. Ahhh yes, the good ol' days
Electric drums where the new "thing" then. Makers such as Simmons and Pearl has their unique electric drum sound. I think Yamaha had one too. Though they hadn't quite perfected cross-talk yet, you hit one pad too hard and you trigger any other pad mounted on that stand as well. I do remember recording an electric drum snare and bass hit on my, then, Sound Blaster Pro WAV recorder and seeing a perfect right angled wave length of sound graph. I thought, coool! Digital! Since the Alesis D4 came out, that changed everything about electric drums.
Loved tron. Remember the video game? What about the videogame "track and field." Our highschool had it, great way to kill lunch... Remember Galaga - and that wonderful trick to get the aliens to stop shooting!
Tama had theirs as well. Eventually DDrums had the best 'package' many claimed. Simmons went bankrupt due to some mismanagement and their Simmons ?X? system. it was state of the art with onboard sampling, editing, etc. i remember hanging out with Bill bruford and he was showing me the various things it could do. MAN it was so cool and i ALMOST bought one. Now use the Yamaha Pro set here for fun. It aint THAT bad for electric, but i miss my HUGE acoustic set that, basically was the size of Pearts but had MORE STUFF to it for Stewart (Police) fun. Dual acoystic snares, lots of LP Percussions stuff (chimes, Agogo bells, cowbells, woodblocks, etc). Ludwig Speedking pedal baby i hated the 'better' Ghost pedal. Lemme scan some of my old mags... i only kept the Peart issues and some other Rush stuff. Someone told me these things are worth $$ ????? Also, have a few of the Rush Backstage Club mailers here. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Steve, what about this poster that I had laminated for my drummer. It was actually printed on some sort of material rather than paper. BTW...yours truly on bass!! Image Unavailable, Please Login
Neil Pert, I taught him everything he knows He's an excellent drummer, not very many can follow him, I've never heard a band even attempt to try their material. Rush's style is uniqe, Neils blend of fills, licks and syncopation(YYZ) that meshes with the band gives them a sound that all to themselves. Time signature changes from 5/4 to 4/4 and back(Jacobs Ladder) in addition to Neils masterful utilization of fills gives it that complex beat progression that you can't seem to follow.
Definately the best decade ever for music; it was rated as such in a poll recently. Someone mentioned earlier in this thread how the 90's and current day have been defined (and ruined) by hip hop, rap, etc... I completely agree. Most of today's pop music is absolutely terrible. Ironically, it's amazing how many remixed 80's songs I'm hearing on the radio these days... The 80's produced so many classics... when on the computer, I listen to the 80's internet radio station "Club 977" more than any other station. They've just played "Heart and Soul" by T'Pau, and now I'm listening to "Obsession", by Animotion. Next up - "Invisible Touch", by Genesis. Then "A View To a Kill" - Duran Duran... You guys have mentioned alot of the most memorable things. How about the films... Back to the Future Beverly Hills Cop Trading Places The Terminator Indiana Jones and Wall Street Based on the investment banking scandals of the mid to late 80's... Michael Milken (The "Junk Bond King") Ivan Boesky ("Greed is right") Carl Icahn T. Boone Pickens, Jr Ronald Perelman James Goldsmith Gordon Gekko being the fictional embodiment of the above arbitrageurs. These are the things that cemented the 80's being recognised as the "Decade of Greed" or "Me Decade". American Psycho was an 'interesting' reflection on some of the darker aspects of the 80's greed/materialistic culture. The Bonfire of the Vanities also covered much of the same material.
That TAMA poster was a promo when he changed sets, i think around 1982 or so. Not sure the value, but i know Tama gave away/sold lots of them. Agree Neal is a great drummer, but we must also give credit to Bill Bruford and Terry Bozio. If you think Terry only did Missing Persons stuff, he is SO MUCH MORE than that. He is a melodic drummer who invents his own textures using various acoustic and electric sounds. As for Bruford, you think Rush does odd time signatures well... Then we have Jack DeJanette (sp?)... How about the 4-stick discipline by Buddy Rich was promoting/doing back in the 1980s? Simon Philips was ok, but i really did not dig him too much. Billie Cobham was a 'big kit' type drummer and i liked it. Dave Wekl is damn good... All this IS 1980's talk, but about drummers specifically. And of course there is the awesome... (see pick below) Image Unavailable, Please Login
I still have the 4/84 issue of MD and some other Peart-related stuff. Do you have an idea of what that mag is worth? Now I'm curious. Has anyone read his books? He wrote one about taking a motorcycle trip across the country. I know he lost both his wife and his kid not too long ago. http://www.neilpeart.net/ I have a few of their vip badges and some other related Peart memoribilia too. BTW, there is a tribute band out there. http://www.echonyc.com/~dgibson/tidalpp/PwrWin.html RMX
That looks like the old Tama store poster where they floated him and the drums out on the lake. He wrote something about this in one of the tour programs. RMX
Anyone who got hooked up with Frank Zappa as a drummer (i.e., Chad Wackerman, Vinnie C and TB) had to be pretty good (i.e., "The Black Page", etc). RMX
You missed REMINGTON STEELE Man, I missed the 80's Movie: B'fast club, St. Elmo's fire, 16 candles, etc and ultimately..............**** Ferris Bueler's day off**** Toys: Tamiya R/C cars : Wild willy, Audi Quattro, etc. Songs : ALL OF THEM. I still listen to 80's songs. I have an almost complete collection of the essential 80s music. My wife thinks that I'm still living my live in 1988. And the car : Countach! The ultimate 80's car. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Not sure value, maybe $75??? Maybe less, maybe more. As for his wife/kid, yeah a few years back. This is why Rush came to a halt for about 2 years. i saw Neil/wife/kid on Hollywood FL beach in the late 80's. Said hi but left them to enjoy their holiday.
You guys are a bunch of punks. You shoulda been around back in the day when we invented rock 'n roll. Let's see that would have been around..., uh, oh man, when did all that good **** go down... Let me think here... What year did I graduate from high school? Oh, wow! Did you just see that bird fly by? Farm Out Man. Hey man, don't bogart dat doobie... Now, what were we talking about? Yeah, Duane versus Clapton. Did I ever tell you bout the time I saw Sky Dog and Slow Hand on the same show...
London Fog jackets Vuarnet Sunglasses Checkered Vans Atari 2600 DS-80 computers Rubix Cube Hacky sacks Break Dancing Fat laces Rambo knives 80's BMX bikes ( Hutch, P.K. Ripper, Robinson, Redline, Skyway, Kuwahara). all equiped with Uni Seats and Z-Rims. And the best album ever.... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Rubix cube was awesome. Most of us had it on a keychain too - great way to kill time in school... That was a decade where kids still played dodgeball, and football during lunch. Before it became "not politically correct." Remember those little hand held early computer games? I think one was called "Quarterback", where you were a blip, and had to run throght 2-3 other blips to score a touch down! Remember the handheld game "redline?" You just pressed buttons to shift a gear on a dragster. Of course all you saw were some rows of lights go on... Whoo heee! The good old days! I rememebr my first fuzz buster... The hot cars at my high school were the rx-7, monte carlo, and vette. I drove my dads buick, or his red olds with the velvet interior... The arcade was THE place to hang out. And if you knew how to do some magic with a paperclip, you could play for free for a very long time! Remember the first CD based arcade games? Some kind of knight and dragon game, with video clips. You pushed a control, and based on your timing it took you to the next stage or showed you falling down a cliff. First game that cost 50 cents, as I remember... I also seem to remember that in highschool you were lucky if you got to second or third base, and girls DIDN'T want to get pregnant. Nowadays oral sex seems like a given - its replaced the hug, as best as I could tell... Any other flashbacks!!!
