Yamahas are pretty durable (especially their Professional Maple Series), along with DWs. Both sound good too. Neither are cheap though. If you get a good kit like these one, then get some good road cases to go with that kit. It is worth every penny you spend on them.

I have seen some pretty good "Pawn Shop Specials" lately (due to the crappy US dollar and ecconomy!) So you might wanna check out that avenue as well. You might find some deal that could make your day.

One other option is some custom made Garcia Drums. They are made by a friend of mine Jerry Garcia (don't snicker about his name though, he has gotten a lot of that over the years!). Although I am not sure if he is still making them right now. He used to run the Seattle Drum Shop here in Seattle, but closed that up a few years back. They are some of the best and most durable drums I have seen/heard in many years. They are not cheap either, but you will get what you want both sonicly and visually.

Me, I'll stick with the classic Ludwigs from the mid 1960s (when they knew how to build 'em!).
I hope this helps. Good Luck!

Skinsuit - New Rose. Here's me drumming on a damned cover.

They can't do it, PJ. I asked this past weekend.

Indeed! This is a REAL BOSS HOSS & THE EYE event!!

This show is going to be AMAZING!!

Oh yeah!!

We're playing this show!!

From: http://zuriz.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-trashwomen-reunite/ "Budget rock pioneers The Trashwomen are reuniting to play a show at Mr T’s Bowl in Los Angeles on July 12th. It’s their first gig since 1995...."

My first thought would be to burn the Nuggets Box Sets,1+2.Good selection of garage and an even better one of mod/beat/R n b.
If it was one tune for me it would be "Baby" by The Tasmanians.Four chords,fuzz guitar,weedy organ and the essential "my woman crapped on me" lyrics.

Yeah, did you read my previous reply? I asked about Little Steven hosting the show... at least that's what is lead to be believed from your intro post. But if you don't care to reply, then forget it. Whatever.

Eh no. Anything exciting I missed?

Playlist May 4th:

Philisteins : Early Morning Memory
Electric Frankenstein : She's My Bitch
Sadies : Talkin Down
Digger & The Pussycats : Workin at a Desk
Knivknep : Knepper for mig selv
Jason & The Scorchers : Absolutely Sweet Marie
Holly Golightly : Serial Girlfriend
Stupid Party : Ghost of Terror
Pere Ubu : Final Solution
Sonic Assassin : Saddam Kiss
Hex Dispensers : Lose my Cool
Aron : Hun er ikke noget menneske
Carbonas : Butcher
Nosy Joe & The Pool Kings : Sapphire
Endless Boogie : Dirty Angel

Are you ignoring me, Jens?

Playlist Arpil 27th:

Pretty Whores Of Manhattan : Ferdinand
Hellacopters : Veronica Lake
Ennio Morricone : Notte Di Giorno (Lizard in a Woman's Skin soundtrack)
Factums : Oroboros
La Ira De Dios : Kaos
Statues : Lifting Fingers
Alex Chilton : My Rival
Boris : Dead Destination
Knivknep : Bøssepis
Digger & The Pussycats : Stab A Motherfucker
Jerry Teel and the Big City Stompers : Down to my Last Cigarette
Kill Devil Hills : Drugs
Sonny Vincent : Comes Around
Depressive State : Pressure
Len Price 3 : Christian in the Desert
Vicious Cycle : Hail the Bouncher
Only Ones : Another Girl
Hidden Charms : Cheat Liar Cheat
Lincoln St. Exit : Man Machine

that would be the kind that cranks out of your car windas, not your iPeed... Mutant Hardcore Flower Hour Radio Thursdays, 10pm - to 1am With your hosts Burton, Scott, and Rosa 91.7FM or ktru.org

that would be the kind that cranks out of your car windas, not your iPeed...

hey

I'm thinking of making a guitar from these guys my "nice guitar"

right now I play on an EPI which is fine but those look bad ass

I'd go for either a white phantom with a black pickguard or a triburst hollowbody with a mirror pickguard which do you guys prefer?

any one have any experience with these guitars?

George

ps. this is probably a long way off I'll do it maybe when i'm living stateside as part of my university course or I'll do it when I get a job (I know, I know not Rock n' roll)

Hey,

Thanks to great comps like Transworld Punk Rave Up or the Peace, Love & Poetry series, we now know there were great 60s garage bands all over the world but what about 50s R'n'R?

I know of 4 great songs composed by French writer, poet and jazz musician Boris Vian and performed by Henri Salvador around 1956-57 (he meant them as a joke but they were brilliant wild rock'n'roll songs).

I know there were lots of great bands in Mexico: los Locos del Ritmo, los Boppers, los Apson...

I know of the incredible Tielman Brothers (Indonesian band who had a career in the Netherlands) but they sang in English.

Any others?

I just found this album of theres that has some radio commericals they did on dating courtesy , well Mary was discussing that. pretty funny,

oh sorry if i caused any confusion i meant trash in the most positive sense of the word

ahh a teisco i believe

no i don't

it's got that kinda crazy, glitchy, trash-retro-futurist thing goig on

i hope you like it

how's it sound?

That's cool those are boss lookin! I got a hollowbody teardrop from phantom guitars.

A GaragePunk iron-on-patch t-shirt would be the cat's pajamas!!

Life is a Lousy Drag....cuz I gots me some of these stickers & I ain't got nothin' to stick 'em to!!!
Might make an iron-on from one...but damn that sounds like work...so fuck it I just stick the thing on a t-shirt & go!

....I though this was gonna be a thread screamin' at folks to decorate their HIdeout pages...hahaha

Have you gotten one (or more) of the GaragePunk stickers?! I have a few, and let me tell you they are bad ass! In fact they're so bad ass that I haven't stuck 'em to anything yet because I'm completely neurotic and want them to stay pristine forever! However, you should really shill out that fat cash ($1.00 ppd?! - cheap kids!) and stick 'em all over your car or bike or skateboard, or whatever you have!! *This ain't no advertisement. Just a challenge to you to let the world know about the obviously superior art-form formally known as Garage Punk!* Luv, Michael Kaiser, esq.

Actually, I need some help. Does anyone know a site that has a track list for these compilations? Because I'm seeing some conflicting information floating around and it's getting impossible to keep track of.

I don't know how I found them at all, but they rule! I need to get all of them.

and now you can listen... You wanna hear Mike & The Ravens 45 years after they broke up? Expecting Grandpa Rock? Guess again... tune in and hear a pre-Beatles American band in all its glory, reclaiming rock 'n' roll in 2008... Mike & The Ravens NOW!

Well I'll keep an eye out on Japanese auctions, but USA is probably cheaper.
I'm no expert, but I think you'll probably be better of having an expert inlay another "O" and have the paint refinished. Every secondhand Vox guitar I have owned has needed a refret, except one. Restoring the original headstock, would be cheaper than a replacement neck, and whatever trouble it brings.