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Hi All -
Long tome no chat. Thought you might enjoy this - or hate it - that's fine too. Thats why there is chocolate and vanilla ice cream.
As I am sure was the case with many of you (especially in my age bracket) I was very very sad to hear that Eddie Van Halen had passed away. Yes, I love the music. However, its more than that. When I was 15 (in 1984) I was home sick from school with some illness (probably faking it at some level). We had just got cable the weekend prior, and I was watching MTV. Stuck in between the various skinny tie music and Michael Jackson tunes, the hair band videos started to poke their heads up - including Panama, Hot For Teacher - even Jump. I was more a fan of tunes like Running WIth The Devil, but these videos sold both music and the party that was the 80's. I said out loud, "I wanna do that". It took my drumming from something on par with playing sports, to an aspiration. I practiced like crazy (and didn't get my hair cut for almost 4 years - ha!). I was blessed to experience all sort of stuff over the span of my career. Therefore, I really felt I needed to do something to commemorate Eddie's passing.
So I built this. Say hello to "frankensnare".
This is a 1980 era Pearl that is still one of my main back-ups. It is almost always sitting just behind me at every show, just in case.
I distressed the hardware with muratic acid and a fairly coarse scotch bright, Being that chrome pits when it gets old, I also hit is from distance with some epoxy spray paint to get the speckles. Re-did the shell, then replicated several iconic parts of Eddie's frankenstrat, including the 1971 dated quarter and pick guard.
I love it - and it will still be my main back up.
Sorry for the long winded post - hope you like the drum.
Long tome no chat. Thought you might enjoy this - or hate it - that's fine too. Thats why there is chocolate and vanilla ice cream.
As I am sure was the case with many of you (especially in my age bracket) I was very very sad to hear that Eddie Van Halen had passed away. Yes, I love the music. However, its more than that. When I was 15 (in 1984) I was home sick from school with some illness (probably faking it at some level). We had just got cable the weekend prior, and I was watching MTV. Stuck in between the various skinny tie music and Michael Jackson tunes, the hair band videos started to poke their heads up - including Panama, Hot For Teacher - even Jump. I was more a fan of tunes like Running WIth The Devil, but these videos sold both music and the party that was the 80's. I said out loud, "I wanna do that". It took my drumming from something on par with playing sports, to an aspiration. I practiced like crazy (and didn't get my hair cut for almost 4 years - ha!). I was blessed to experience all sort of stuff over the span of my career. Therefore, I really felt I needed to do something to commemorate Eddie's passing.
So I built this. Say hello to "frankensnare".
This is a 1980 era Pearl that is still one of my main back-ups. It is almost always sitting just behind me at every show, just in case.
I distressed the hardware with muratic acid and a fairly coarse scotch bright, Being that chrome pits when it gets old, I also hit is from distance with some epoxy spray paint to get the speckles. Re-did the shell, then replicated several iconic parts of Eddie's frankenstrat, including the 1971 dated quarter and pick guard.
I love it - and it will still be my main back up.
Sorry for the long winded post - hope you like the drum.
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