You want a bigger kick drum sound?

Re: You want a bigger kick drum sound?

I'll settle for a 24-26" kick with a good drum fill/sub behind it ;-) I do remember the drummer from Overkill (SST Record's Overkill, not the other one) had a 30" kick for a while. That was pretty ridiculous.

Greg
 
Re: You want a bigger kick drum sound?

Lee Brenkman said:
try this!
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Is that related to Spike Jones in any way? It wasn't a part of his TV show ensemble. But before that he had his own traveling musical show, complete with acrobats and other types of characters usually associated with carnival acts and such. So I could see that drum somehow fitting in there.

P.S. Okay I see that is not such an old picture. So nevermind.
 
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Re: You want a bigger kick drum sound?

Chris Davis said:
Is that related to Spike Jones in any way? It wasn't a part of his TV show ensemble. But before that he had his own traveling musical show, complete with acrobats and other types of characters usually associated with carnival acts and such. So I could see that drum somehow fitting in there.

P.S. Okay I see that is not such an old picture. So nevermind.
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No I don't think it's a Spike Jones related pic but I'm going to check the family scrapbooks to see if that drummer matches any of Spike's drummers.

My wife's father played with Spike for a while and knew most of the regular members of the band.

Relevant to this forum, Spike Jones was one of the first bands to "carry production" in the same way we now think of it. He had his own sets, sound system and lights that was transported in a railway baggage car and his own crew to set up and operate the gear. The local promote was only obligated to provide AC power, chairs and whatever local crew that jurisdiction required.
 
Re: You want a bigger kick drum sound?

Lee Brenkman said:
No I don't think it's a Spike Jones related pic but I'm going to check the family scrapbooks to see if that drummer matches any of Spike's drummers.

My wife's father played with Spike for a while and knew most of the regular members of the band.

Relevant to this forum, Spike Jones was one of the first bands to "carry production" in the same way we now think of it. He had his own sets, sound system and lights that was transported in a railway baggage car and his own crew to set up and operate the gear. The local promote was only obligated to provide AC power, chairs and whatever local crew that jurisdiction required.
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Cool, cool, cool.
 
Re: Report from our research staff, there is a Spike Jones connection

It appears that the man in the picture behind that big bass drum is, in fact Joe Siracusa, the longest termed drummer with Spike Jones City Slickers.

He was also quite the inventive prop designer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qOaf_3AaQE

And it gets better, here's some stuff compiled from a couple of on line bios:

Joe Siracusa was a drummer with novelty bandleader Spike Jones and his City Slickers from 1947 to 1953. In the 1960s, after Jones' death, he and several other ex-Slickers put together a comedy band called "The New Society Band," which later became "The Phunharmonic Orchestra."

After tiring of touring, and wanting to settle down with his wife and four children, Joe was invited by his old childhood friend, “Herbie” Klynn to join the sound department at UPA Pictures animation studio. Joe was thrilled because at UPA he not only was able to let loose with his wacky effects collection, but was encouraged to participate in all levels of the creative process, the only studio that allowed such a practice, at the time. From UPA he went to Format Films, where he was part of the Chipmunks crew, and even did the voice of Alvin for a while.
He also did music and sound effects for the Pink Panther, Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Dr. Seuss special “The Cat in the Hat”. Joe had met Ted “Dr. Seuss” Geisel, at UPA, during the production of Gerald McBoing Boing, a Seuss creation, of a little boy who only spoke in sound effects … guess who was the “voice” of Gerald … right!

And as of 2010 he's still at it!

http://www.jha.org/volunteer/vol-profiles.asp?mode=detail&pid=352

Sorry for the long post but as "Grampa" around here I'm inspired by active people who are older than I am.
 
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