The Age-old Dilemma for Drummers

Judas Jetski · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:32 pm Post subject: The Age-old Dilemma for Drummers

Drummers--I got a question:

Where do you keep the second (or third, or fourth) drum set?

I've got my beater-set set up in the basement of my house. It's not awful, but it's no place where I want to keep my Noble & Cooley set, my round-badge Gretsch set, or my '58 Slingerlands.

At the moment, those drums are all jammed in a downstairs closet (unused Mad

!) which Mrs. Smash now wants for our vacuum cleaner and the like. (Can you imagine?!?) I'm at a loss for where to put these things, and I know better than to just sell them off. The attic is too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, and already full of other junk year round. Where do you-all keep your extra stuff?
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I voted for the multi million dollar sound proof outbuilding.
I keep extra drum stuff in a climate controlled storage space. About 125 bucks a month, but where else would i put my pump organ, flight cases, adats, and a zillion other weird things? I dont have a basement.
I have an apartment, and a studio.

The building my storage space is housed in is a many million dollar, qlimate controlled building here in Brooklyn.
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MoreSpaceEcho · speech impediment Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 4831

mine are just all out in the big room here...

djimbe · tinnitus Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 1089 Location: chicago

The semi-soundproof, multi-hundred dollar storage space we put behind the control room when we built? Yeah, that's where we keep ours. There's at least 7 kits spread out between back there, the live room, and the room where my workbench and the plates sit...
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**cgarges**

All of the above. Very Happy

For eight years, I lived in an apartment building with indoor storage lockers that were perfect for keeping my drums, but I still managed to have kits and parts left all around Charlotte at different studios or people's houses or whatever. Last year, my wife and I bought a house and I got my own music room, which includes two closets. I put shelved up in the closets and it works well, although I still don't have room for all my kits in there. Some of my stuff is actually kind of around the house as "decorative," but most of it stays in the music room.

The basement probably isn't too bad if it stays remotely climate-controlled (in terms of not having rapid temperature changes) and if there's no real moisture issues down there. Rapid climate changes and constant moisture are the two things that can really wreck havoc on a drumkit.

Chris Garges
Charlotte, NC
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GooberNumber9

In the vocal booth, right?

Singer comes over: take all the drums out of the vocal booth and make some tea. Singer leaves: wash out mug and put the drums back in the booth.

thieves

both of my kits are in our attic. it gets way too hot up there for a lot of the things i keep there, but it's the only place it can be. my beater kit is the one i got from my parents when i was 14... an early 80's pearl fiberglass kit. the coating on it is already warped/buckled in a few places from being out in the sun in the back seat of a car when i was a teenager, so i'm not too worried about the effects of heat on it.

but i really want to have my new-ish gretsch kit in a better space... and all my other stuff up there... Sad

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calaverasgrandes

I used to have a space in the Mission in SF. I had all my Ludwig Vistalites and my Pearl fiberglass drums stored up in the rafters. Then the building got sol when I was on tour. Never did get those drums back. Oh yeah there was a slingerland 18" (?) kick.
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johnny7

percussion boy

percussion boy

Answering original question:

Sold second kit. Can only play one at a time. If it sounds bad, the drummer is at fault.

First and only kit lives in its locker at Lennon Studios. The dog guards it.
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calaverasgrandes

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calaverasgrandes

yeah so dont keepdrums in rafters.
I guess despite the possibility of having a the place sold, heat does rise.
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Electricide

if they're unused for that long then take all the heads off and cascade them. or, ya know, one inside the other thingy. Maybe some protective bubble wrap in between. Collapse the stands. You could get both kits in one closet I'd think.
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