I've used a mouse mat for years that I nailed to a piece of wood and put in a snare basket, the 5mm neoprene style one with the blue or red surface, when Ingot it out at a Gary Chaffee masterclass about 15 years ago a lot of guys laughed at it, Gary said to me later that I obviously didn't have any ...

Weckl's sound always impresses, that's one of my most important pursuits.

Loving the live McLaughlin track. That's gonna get me practicing. Bring on the night too!

Kimo Williams Tracking, and Live with my friend Vinnie are both incredible.
Warren Cucurullo's thanks to frank. Sublime.
The Nightfly and Aja.
Nik Kershaw The Works.
Michel Camilo- on fire, on the other hand, suntan.
CCEB Elektric band 2 - Novak shows us how to play drums - period.

Got mine in the uk yesterday, listening now. Sounds great! Who else on HOD has CDs we can buy? I'm all for buying my music from people this way, if its thus good there's every reason to buy!

I've got around 95 Zildjians and they are all good, no clunkers, but they have all been hand selected and in some cases with the older K brilliant crashes - played in (a lot with the 18 and 19) some are absolute magic, and I wouldn't give a lot of them up. Maybe when I'm no longer able to play in ab...

I use a seperate single space Pro racket bag with a cloth seperator to carry 3 or 4 rides and a standard 22" Pro Racket bag for the rest of my set-up, I will change rides on an open mic night if needed, sometimes a couple of crashes change too so I can do it all with two bags. I'd like a 24&quo...

This will kick ass, the previous one was so good, loved the drum sound on that last one, really tight and aggressive! Ordered mine!

I'm signed in at Zappateers but can't find a download link other than Dime ones, how do I download it? Please!! :0)

The Ride is probably an A Custom style prototype, it has the same look and wobble as a 22" Soundlab prototype I had and sold on, thinner than standard A Customs by a hair....These are the best videos I've seen of Gary's playing. I never "got" Gary until today. At last!