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Re: Kenny's Drums



> However, Joe pointed out something
> I'd never noticed in the 1979 rehearsal segment.  Kenney keeps his cymbals
> and drum skins very tight so that they have little sustain.  With Keith
> you'd get great rumbling washes of sound (brummmp - woosh) with Kenney it's
> all short staccato bursts (bump - bump - bap -tish).  It's very different
> from Keith's.

Very true.  Kenny's drums (Yamaha, right?) didn't have the ooomph that Keith's
drums did.  However, that 1979 rehearsal footage uses only the sound from the 
video tape which would make *any* drumset sound flat & very "high-endish."
Especially the snare drum.

- SCHRADE in Akron