towels on toms?

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Steenamaroo said:
Good call!
I mean, we know you're a dick, but statements like this prove you're not just a dick for the sake of it! :p
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Lol. I don't fall into the trap of blindly worshipping the beatles because as musician you think you're supposed to.
 
50 years ago, drum heads weren't the same as they are now. trying to tune an actual calf skin head was a different experience because it wasn't necessarily a consistent thickness all the day across.

If you dig back far enough, you will find all sorts of solutions for problems that don't exist any longer.
 
Farview said:
50 years ago, drum heads weren't the same as they are now. trying to tune an actual calf skin head was a different experience because it wasn't necessarily a consistent thickness all the day across.

If you dig back far enough, you will find all sorts of solutions for problems that don't exist any longer.
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This ^^^^^^^^

Evans and Remo each make dozens of heads for all types of sounds. The right head always sounds better than the wrong head forced to do something it isn't designed to do.
 
Greg_L said:
Lol. I don't fall into the trap of blindly worshipping the beatles because as musician you think you're supposed to.
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Come on Greg...If the 4th best drummer in the Beatles uses towels.......

Nevermind.
 
Greg_L said:
Nah, I hate all of the Beatles.


Well, George is okay I guess. I don't really know enough about him to really any opinion. To me he seems the least douchey of the four.
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The Beatles - before Brian came in and changed their image - where the punk rockers of their time.
 
Steenamaroo said:
Come on Greg...If the 4th best drummer in the Beatles uses towels.......

Nevermind.
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I do give ringo props though for being an early proponent of a style of drumming that punk grabbed a hold of and ran with it. Maybe it's because he sucked and just did it the way he did it, but his straight-ahead boom-whack with open trashy hats was pretty cool in their early days.
 
moresound said:
The Beatles - before Brian came in and changed their image - where the punk rockers of their time.
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Funny how "image" changes everyone's perception of reality. The Stones were a bunch of middle-class art school geeks, and the Beatles were from fucking Liverpool, and considered pretty low-class.
 
moresound said:
The Beatles - before Brian came in and changed their image - where the punk rockers of their time.
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I don't know about that. Maybe. To me they were a pretty boy band ripping off their american heroes. There was nothing edgy or dangerous about The Beatles. Cutesy songs. Little girls loved them. They were the Justin Biebers of their time. I think The Who or The Animals were much more "punk" if we're gonna apply that term to bands of the early 60's.
 
Greg_L said:
Well there ya go. That's all the reason I need to not put towels on my drums.
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For the record I wasn't saying DO or DON'T because Ringo did it. Rather, judging by the number of album sales, I'm sure towels on the drums for effect didn't effect that.
 
RecordingMaster said:
For the record I wasn't saying DO or DON'T because Ringo did it. Rather, judging by the number of album sales, I'm sure towels on the drums for effect didn't effect that.
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If album sales are what we're gonna judge things by, then let's just all do whatever Lady Gaga does.
 
Greg_L said:
I do give ringo props though
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Chances are you're hearing Paul anyways! Ringo had a bit of a boozy problem which made things difficult in the studio. Paul had to sneak in and re-arrange most of the stuff Ringo threw down (or threw up?) because it either didn't fit,was too sloppy, had toomany of the same fills, or not enough "good" sounding fills. So drums from a bass/guitar player's point of view = a beat.

But what do I know, I wasn't actually in the studio nor was I even even alive at the time!
 
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Greg_L said:
If album sales are what we're gonna judge things by, then let's just all do whatever Lady Gaga does.
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Didn't they have to cancel one of her most recent shows in the US because ticket sales were so low?
 
RecordingMaster said:
Chances are you're hearing Paul anyways! Ringo had a bit of a boozy problem which made things difficult in the studio. Paul had to sneak in and re-arrange most of the stuff Ringo threw down (or threw up?) because it either didn't fit,was too sloppy, had toomany of the same fills, or not enough "good" sounding fills. So drums from a bass/guitar player's point of view = a beat.

But what do I know, I wasn't actually in the studio nor was I even even alive at the time!
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That's just one more reason to hate Paul!
 
moresound said:
Yes - the effect can be heard very easily with the drum roll during Come Together.
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All over that album! Except on his little "solo" with those bellowing out of tune toms. But hey, it did the trick at making in memorable. Same with the dead towel drums parts. When I picture that album in my head, that's a big part of it. A lot more memorable then say, the drum sound of some stock rock band on the radio today.

Hell, it sure aint for me though! I like me some good resonance in my toms,no matter the style,and a snare that cracks, not flops.
 
RAMI said:
Funny how "image" changes everyone's perception of reality. The Stones were a bunch of middle-class art school geeks, and the Beatles were from fucking Liverpool, and considered pretty low-class.
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That is funny how that works.
 
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