RE-VISITING THE GSP MAJESTICS

Another addition to "The misplacedmtnman Magnificent M.I.J. Museum" that I neglected to feature here is this Gold Sparkle Pearl Majestic kit.  Not to be confused with the GSP Stewart set, a 22-12-16 arrangement I covered a couple of posts ago, these Gold Sparkles measure 20-13-16 and all bear a "Majestic" badge.  This kit was actually assembled and restored first but was filed away without any fanfare.

Digging this drum set back out, setting it up and playing it was especially fun because I had previously not done this, and the kit sounds really good.  Today's up-and-coming drummers can boast about their brand-new, modern DW, Pearl or Tama kits that perform professionally and have rock-solid, heavy-duty hardware, but to me there is just something special about an old vintage lightweight Japanese-made drum set from the ancient decades of 1960 and 1970.

And don't get me started on the heavily-mic'ed, over-produced drum sounds of today's music compared with old fashioned wood drums of yesteryear.  I much prefer the earlier albums of Rush over the stuff Neil Peart produced in later sessions.  "Signals" was the last great, inspirational album for me, the one performed on his candy-apple-red Tama Superstars, before he added the electronic crap behind him.  I mean, "Vapor Trails" and "Clockwork Angels" are fine pieces of work, but they don't have the spell-binding, mind-blowing, actual real wood drumset-playing brilliance of "Permanent Waves" or "Moving Pictures."

But I digest.  I mean digress.  Whatever.  My point is, I think it is much more fun to play around with these old drums.  But of course, I'm a misplacedmtnmoron.  What do I know?

The restoration process for this kit was uneventful and pretty straight-forward, which is probably why I didn't write it up.  Just another "Day in the Life."  Nothing much to report on here

Well, anyway, that's another one for the record.  Let us move on.....