OT: How many 914 fans/owners are musicians? Options

[Dr Evil]

It is always interesting to see what we have in common considering that we come from varied walks of life on this site. I have tried to go to other forums and have been largely dissatisfied, and sometimes pissed off at how the people are on them. I have met several hundred of you from this site and could not ask for a better group of people to hang with. Besides our love of the 914, how many of you also play instruments?

As many of you know, I am a musician. I ask the above question from curiosity and because I have an ulterior motive. I have a friend that is Beta testing his new site:

JamZoom

...which is for musicians.

There are other sites out there for musicians, but this one is intended to fill a void/niche that those seem to be missing:

*Content and community site in one. (forums and press releases and videos etc)
*Ability to post videos on the site
*Ability to post videos in the threads
*All new technologies (html5 etc.)
*One stop shop for musicians

My friend's site needs beta testers. Check it out for yourself and let me know what you think. He is OUR kind of people, trust me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I figure another place to populate with like-minded musicians would be pretty cool. This atmosphere with a different focus (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)

[Scott S]

I fricken love gear!

Y'all have some really cool guitars. That sunburst strat is amazing.

My first kit was a 68 slingerland. I bought it for 35.00 in 1977. I restored it about two years ago and it now resides up above the fireplace in our family room (house had these crazy big "cubbies" - worked out great). In 1981 I bought my first brand new kit - a Pearl. I have been a fan ever since. Have owned several other brands in my past, but always end up back on a pearl kit. I saved and saved for custom birdseye maple rootbeer fade DW kit in 1995. I was in the drum shop 4 monthes later just looking around and sat down behind a "low-end" Pearl ELX and was shocked at how much better the kick drum sounded compared to my DW. Put the DW up for sale that day. While I own several kits my other manfacturers, I will only play live on a Pearl (unless a show is backlined - but I have my trusty roll of black stage tape to fix that). Here are some in my current stash. I primarily play the green masterworks kit and the recently built up white "Tommy Lee" kit (it has a 32" kick! Ha!)

Post more gear!! Love it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)