My Remo snare has served me faithfully for years. I was constantly getting great comments on how well it sounded, but as the nature of playing drums goes: things end up breaking after time. I did some math to get a rough estimate of how many times I’ve hit that snare and I figured in the 10 years I’ve had it I’ve hit it around 8 Million times! A lot of that goes to the fact I’ve been playing at IHOP frequently and consistently for almost 5 years now. The reason my snare broke though, is because those 8,000,000 rim shots were all done in the same location on the drum; I always set it up the same way whenever I played it.

The next items on my drumming shopping cart were two new Zildjian Dark Crash Cymbals.

This is an exciting purchase because I haven’t had crash cymbals for about 8 months now. That’s like a secretary not having a handset for her phone.

There is a very logical and reasonable answer as to why it’s been so long since I had cymbals: I decided that since I play so much at IHOP and travel so much with Merchant Band and Onething that I ought to pursue an endorsement. So I worked very hard to put together a press kit to send of to Istanbul Cymbals, hoping they would give me free stuff. I even had a great editor help me out with the content. But unfortunately I never really sent off the press kit and after 6 months of procrastinating I finally drove down the road to guitar center and ended my misery. The good news is if I do get that press kit sent off sometime soon and they accept me then I can just sell my Zildjians on eBay.