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comeondieyoung-
I noticed you were in seattle. If you are willing to make the drive, try capitol city guitars in olympia… it’s on fourth ave.guitar maniacs in tacoma is a good place to look, as is guitar crazy and old town music in portland.
RuBrick-
well, to answer your question, I am a guitarist and drummer, and I can say for me they are a bit alike, but guitar comes to me easily and drums for a long time were hard as hell… but then i got into the math of it all and got better at both….
as far as cymbals go for me, I have an old zildjian ride cymbal that’s huge… I never have bothered to measure it but it’s really big… it looks like something dale crover would use. for a crash I use a zildjian crash ride, and for high hats I have Nu Vader 14’s. since I play alot of 32th notes on the fast parts of whatever song, I have a set of zildjian zbt high hats on a boom arm to the right of my ride. it’s easier to move between the two sounds that way. [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img]
I got an early musicmaster with a mustang vibrato, a gibson es-125t (63), a silvertone 1448 (59 with the amp in case) and a 1930’s archtop (I think it’s a harmony). for amps I have a peavey practice amp that sounds like total ass, and a cmi electronics 100 watt head (it has 4 channels and a built in Maestro Phaser!!!). I put the head through a bass cabinet and I usually just turn up really loud, but sometimes I use on of those dan armstrong orange squuezer treble boosters that mounts on the input jack of the guitar.
the only pedals I have are an electroharmonix frequency analyzer for that wacky devo sound and a electroharmonix little big muff that sounds exactly like the distortion on "new rose" by the damned.
oh and I got a 1960’s slingerland drum kit for the other band I play in.
jackson just started making surfcasters again recently… you can order them from musicians friend.com
