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ohchaucer

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  1. In cases, if she’s touring or gigging heavily, skb or gator hard are good. On the kit - and I say this with full humility as a gear head - y’all are overthinking it. Consider the wood and configuration you want and weigh in some reputation… but ultimately get the kit you love. Any drum set in the $2500-4k range is going to be as amazing as you could want. And only ever as amazing as how you tune it and until you play it until your hands bleed and your heartbeat skyrockets. Buy drums. Rock drums. Then we can talk hoops and offset lugs and shit. PS - just based on what I “know” of you, your taste musically, and your daughter’s potential plans, I’d go Ludwig all the way. Super versatile, excellent quality American build and, to G650 comment, maple shells that can be both as maple or as attack-y as you want.
  2. I’d go Yamaha, then Ludwig, then Sonor but the last is pricey. Gretsch are also great but I haven’t spent too much behind them and think Ludwig is their parallel but have the edge (no pun) on overall fit and finish and they have sharp wraps and finishes (since I seem to recall you prefer wraps). Yamaha is - in my opinion - the gold standard for mid-pro and upward. Incredible sound and versatility and fit/finish. Their hardware is excellent. That said they aren’t the creative and expansive with range of finishes. DW makes great drums but Pacific are just about as good, half the price…. They just don’t have every drummer in the world as an endorser and stratospheric marketing budget. C&C also make really beautiful drums but that also might bump to a new budget level.
  3. I had a 40th anniversary that held its paint for years. Others not so much. Also had an 83 fj60 and 03 fj100 both of which had to be repainted. Multiple times on the fj60. Regarding tires on the sequoia, the one I saw was much better proportionally than the old model but I’d still go bigger before driving it. And it’s bigger in real life than I was expecting. Nearly seemed LC sized, just a little skinnier. But I haven’t been up close to or sat in one. Yet.
  4. I will say I just saw my first TRD Pro Sequoia in the wild (in orange) and it is damn good looking truck.
  5. I’ll just add that listening again to it after a while, “Last Day” is just a Molotov cocktail of a song. Goddamn.
  6. Truly one of a kind. I was involved a few years back with a big initiative involving the Prince estate and a production using “Nothing Compares” and we were then peripherally sampling some things from Sinead’s published recording - nothing she was involved in by that time but we were given some audio splits of her in the sessions for her recording of it and holy shit she had a voice that could punch through walls. Just unbridled intensity paired with a voice that was pitch perfect and dialed in. So many great songs have been mentioned but one I always thought was most poignant and also had a stellar minimalist drum track was “last day of our acquaintance” A powerful, troubled talent. RIP
  7. Welp, where do I sign up and to whom to I write a check? Might as well be a blank one.
  8. Whoa, whoa, whoa, you throw a little enchilada in a flour tortilla add some cheese and lettuce… baby, you got yourself a burrito going.
  9. Looks great but gonna be way too reliable compared to a real Rover. Pass.
  10. That rug with brand new cymbals on it really ties the room together.
  11. As if there is anything - literally and truly anything at all - that will change a mind that has already been made up for a Trump voter. Maybe there are still a few dozen people that are looking to be persuaded. The other tens of millions might as well vote tomorrow for as much as anything matters.
  12. Maudie’s Regular Dinner. Taco first. Then dump salsa on enchiladas and eat. Then dump salsa on rice and beans swirl with leftover enchilada sauce and spoon glorious glop into tortillas until plate is clear.
  13. From the article: “It is difficult for me to think of another president in modern time who has literally driven a national scheme to disenfranchise Black voters and other voters of color en masse, in the way that we see with these post-election lawsuits,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law during the aftermath of the November 2020 elections. Happens to now be the head of civil rights for DOJ. Maybe the orange shithead will get lynched.
  14. Now THAT is how you drums pron! Gorgeous kit. And the snare is a real beauty (heh).
  15. Because it’s on TV! Not yet.
  16. I think he’s just fucking with us now.
  17. What you did there… how did you do it?
  18. All signs point to “yes.”
  19. I did not know that. Maybe I’ve been underestimating all along. And/or overestimating Beyoncé. It just seems Beyoncé had bigger stage presence vs Madonna more “sexy style” dancing. But then again, I’m completely talking out of my ass.
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