Recently bought a Brady 5.5 x 14 jarrah ply snare. Oh my goodness - it's unbelievable (obviously this won't mean anything to most readers of this blog...)
P.S. I used this snare at our first Heavy Dexters (jazz funk) gig at Wheatsheaf in Chinnor on Sat 20th.
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After listening to the video I found this on youtube which I though you might like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixow5LZh5rs
Happy birthday.
To tell the truth the total awesomeness of the drum wasn't entirely obvious to me! ("Eh? It's a drum. Sounds a lot like...er..a drum." etc. etc.)
Kelly at Brady drums just wished me happy birthday, which was unexpected! Yes, I realize it's total awesomeness will probably be lost on non-drummers.
Mat - thanks for link. I am trying to work the Purdie shuffle into set list (maybe Steely Dan's "Home At Last")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t0VlzJeNvA
Although not myself a drummer, i first got turned on to the tonal aspects of a ( jazz ) drumkit when listening to
Billy Martins drums as part of Medeski Martin & Wood on John Scofields album “A Go Go”.
the word “wood” definitely comes to mind. SO i can well
understand why you should be excited about that snare.
Happy Birthday
Regards,
Dan
Yes it is a weird thing, this sort of obsession.
By the way Brady is a small Australian company that hand-builds drums out of native hardwoods. It's kind of cool they read noticed this post and sent me a happy birthday message.
A reviewer suggested an aquarian satin head and canopus vintage dry snare wires on this drum, so I tried and they improved the sound even more. But will any one else notice £50 worth of improvement? I am guessing not.
A Go Go is a great album.
I think punters or even listeners rarely notice or appreciate tone and how “gear” affects it the way instrumentalists do. How many listeners would be able to tell if a real vintage gibson is being used on a recording instead of a well made copy ?.
But if the player ( you ) really does notice the sonic difference that is arguably going to positively effect how you play, and THAT the punter will hear.
On a related note - i’ve been noticing something of a correlation between atheism ( or to be precise atheist bloggers, personalities ) and “muso"-ness.
Many times i’ve heard of ex christians such as Dan Barker being heavily into the church music thing.
LukeProg at “CommonSenseAtheism” seems to have a very broad and cool taste in music ( dont know if he plays ).
Could there something about the brain of a musician that makes him more likely to be a sceptic ?
Just some thoughts,
Dan
Well I previously noted a possible link between good drummers and Jesus - http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2010/02/will-kennedy.html
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