No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.
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Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.
When Mr. Ludwig invented the bass-drum pedal, that's what made the drum set possible.
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.
People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me.
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.
I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.
I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
But I've gravitated more towards the drum set.
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