Happened to me with SD2s. Yeah, I know ... anyway, the little tips were just waiting to mock me for being stupid enough to pay Stan $5 (goes back a ways) a pop. One day he gives me his look and says pick something else. I switched to SD9s. No tip problems of note, but I don't hit particularly hard.

You also have to be very careful of Tendonosis, a real mother of a condition that can manifest from RSI. Basically, the body isn't healing properly from the micro-tearing that YamahaPlayer mentioned. It takes the body quite a long time to regenerate/repair Collagen; repeated micro-tearing can lead t...

robhaerr wrote:Freddie Gruber is to Neil Peart, as what ___________ is to ______________......?

Ballet / Rigor mortis ?

Apparently, with Freddy, you've got your middle-finger fulcrum and then you've got your middle-finger ...
... fulcrum.

Truly a loss. Sad indeed.

Yikes! I still use the DB-33 I bought new. I AM old ..

I had a discussion about this footage with a friend recently, he was around during that time. They played that footage at NAMM that year, he was saying there was simply nothing like it back then, it blew people's minds. The thing is, Weckl has influenced generations of drummers at this point but no...