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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Neil Peart and John Good of Drum Workshop talk drum shells

Posted at 1:53PM | comments (13)

In the latest issue of Edge Magazine - the official Drum Workshop newsletter - Neil Peart discusses the finer points of drum shell construction with DW's John Good. You can download a PDF of the issue at this link (PDF 5MB). The article is on pages 14-15. Thanks to Power Windows for the heads up.

COMMENTS

#1 - Posted 11/17/09 @2:05PM by Armeee [contact]

first

#2 - Posted 11/17/09 @2:40PM by subdivincent [contact]

dos ( again )

#3 - Posted 11/17/09 @2:46PM by Zitro [contact]

Ahhhhh pellets galore......

#4 - Posted 11/17/09 @3:48PM by dadof4 [contact]

Anybody remember seeing the 30th Anniversary Drum Kit Tour?

That was exciting to see.

#5 - Posted 11/17/09 @3:53PM by TheHonestMan [contact]

At first I thought it said "Neil Peart and John Goodman." That would be...interesting.

#6 - Posted 11/17/09 @6:59PM by LargerBowl2008 [contact]

R30 on vh1 classic right now. Started at 330 pac time.

#7 - Posted 11/18/09 @10:42AM by Mr. K

Hmmm... it might have been nice if they'd spelled Neil's first name correctly in the Edge article.

#8 - Posted 11/18/09 @11:01AM by RushFanForever [contact]

I have empathy toward Neil in that his first name is spelled wrong in articles/interviews and his last name is mispronounced out loud.

#9 - Posted 11/18/09 @12:23PM by ghostcolon [contact]

Good article! I agree w/ Mr. K - please spell Neil's name correctly. As far as the DW sound, I think his DW kits have sounded great since the T4E tour. However, he used a DW Craviotto snare on the 96-97 T4E Tour and as a drummer myself, it sounded AMAZING. Give a listen to it on Different Stages. The one he used on RiR was terrible. His Tama set and Slingerland snare always sounded great as well.

#10 - Posted 11/18/09 @2:34PM by Manny [contact]

Peart hasn't had a good drum sound (IMO) since the Tama days. Why he plays those tubby sounding DW's is beyond me.

#11 - Posted 11/18/09 @2:35PM by Manny [contact]

Let me amend previous statement. His Ludwigs sounded great too. DW's....the worst sounding insanely expensive drums on the market.

#12 - Posted 11/18/09 @5:06PM by Mr. K

I saw Rush in Concord, CA on the Vapor Trails tour and remember loving the sound of the snare drum... very distinctive, and it meshed well with the tone of Geddy's bass in the mix. As it turns out, it was not a DW snare, but a Yamaha bamboo snare.

I don't mind the sound of the DW drums on the studio albums, but the sound of the drums on the T4E tracks on the Different Stages was distracting. A very wet sounding snare, and toms that sounded almost like tupperware bowls (to me, anyway). The recorded drum sound on R30 and S&A Live was a lot better.

#13 - Posted 11/18/09 @6:28PM by Rob [contact]

The snare on DS was probably still the old slingerland...no?

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