#136

Those massive drum kits are like the drum equivalant of a double-neck guitar aren’t they? Good for overblown 70s prog-monsters and 80s metalheads but do they actually add anything musically?

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#137

lateralus was huge for me at the time and still like it a great deal. think the three instrumentalists do some good and interesting stuff with a very minimal palette but maynard mostly ruins them for me now, especially the last two albums.

4/5

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#138

I have honestly had a dream where I was playing a show with a new band and the kit was at the back of the stage and the bass drum was at the front with the pedal on a long chain. Huge delay between pushing the pedal and the drum beat sounding meant I couldn’t work out the timings at all and the rest of the band were furious with me. Haven’t thought about that in years - thanks for reminding me :+1: :grinning:

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#139

think i’m protective of tool fans though, they became a stereotype no idea how fair that was, but now their is a certain type of person who thinks it is hilarious to wind up tool fans who are much worse imo (anecdotal evidence about one troll-y guy I used to know)

#140

Sounds like a great dream tbh, you should treasure it

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#141

I mean

Safety :wink:

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#142

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#143

oooft

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#144

I mean… Yes?

Drum kits are modular musical instruments. More doesn’t necessarily mean better but if you know how to use it all, or are, say, Marco Minnemann, large drum kits bring a huge amount of musicality options.

But yes it’s also mostly prog.

Here’s a video no one will watch:

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#145

I think minimal drum kits and massive half circles a both good, reminds me of that Jeffrey Lewis song about liking completely opposite things

Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts 20th Anniverary pt. 10 I Want it Both Ways live at Sidewalk - YouTube

#146

Should have stopped after Lateralus

2 good albums / 5

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#147

Nah a lot of Tool fans really are the worst. I’ve even encountered some here in Northants and we don’t even have music!

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#148

I know two hardcore tool fans, and I do think they like tool a bit too much, but I can’t really talk

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#149

Counterpoint though, pitch shifted stuff like Aphex Twin is effectively an infinitely massive drum kit

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#150

are you saying aphex twin is in tool

#151

He is effectively the U.K. Tool

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#152

“I enjoy Tool as much as anybody who never listens to them does. At the end of the day, they’re a bunch of hippies who dress like the cast of the matrix and for that I applaud you, you have the balls to enjoy that kind of lacklustre music and I don’t.”

0/5. Well shit.

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#153

Nah that’s not fair, whilst they share some qualities Aphex twin has a lot more musicality and inventiveness

#154

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#155

It’s like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly, but with straight white men over 30

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