I bought a rogers holiday (i think its a holiday but i’m no expert) 20×14 bass drum a few years ago. its pretty, and i love the sound of old rogers. we had a rogers kit in a jazz program i was involved with in college and i really liked them. anyway, i’ve been searching for toms to finish it out for a few years no and to no luck. i’m kinda picky. anyway. i borrowed a rogers kit from dan hamilton as well as the snare i told about and i’m using the toms with my kick in the really dry room downstairs. we’re also running the kick through a bass cab in the room to fatten up the low end a little. sounds really good.

we did a track today that needed a really big fat beat throughout. no need for toms, just a fat beat. so we took the toms away and brought out the 14×8 (big!) snare that matches the 24×16 (also big!) kick drum that were provided by kieth at risen drums. they are sounding huge. i can’t wait for all to hear. also i used a set of hats that we’re given to me by my neighbor growing up. she’s kinda the reason i started playing in the first place. these hats are pretty trashed. they are not hand hammered. more like hammered by kids for the last 30 years. and they are thin to begin with. she gave me an entire kit that is a japanese student model from the late 60’s. the original heads are still intact. you could not get their sound anywhere else. go listen to “beautiful collision” if you want a reference. i’ll have pictures for them tommorow maybe.

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I have a few new drums that have already been used on tracks for the new record. I’m gonna try and post what drums I use throughout recording for my own sake (my memory is pretty useless) and to give anyone who cares a little breakdown.

We played about a month ago at a church in Austin where a good friend of ours is the pastor. I used the church’s kit that night and it had a Yamaha Copper Snare. I loved it. All the attack and “crack” of a Ludwig Black Beauty but with warmer tones and a little lower pitch. This copper drum was on ebay pretty cheap so I couldn’t resist. The hammering and cast hoops only makes it darker and warmer. It was immediately used on the first two tracks we did “Can You Feel It” and “For A Thousand Tongues”.

Dan Hamilton of The Robbie Seay Band has an old Rogers Wood Dynasonic – Superten hybrid that has been a staple of Crowder records. I think it can be heard at its finest on “All Creatures” on Illuminate, but it has been used on numerous tracks over the years in many, many different ways. It’s basically a wood Dynasonic shell with Superten hardware, which I’ve read was a common thing to do in the seventies. It sounds fantastic. Anyway, I wanted one bad but thay are hard to find and pretty expensive, so i had Kieth at Risen Drums build me a clone. Ten Ply maple shell with reinforcement hoops, with a completely round bearing edge. It’s 14×6.5 and I think it really compares well to the original Rogers. We used it on “Glory of it All”.

I should also note that Kieth at Risen finished the drums from “A Collision”. We were gonna do a cloth wrap that was gonna look very vintage (like they had sat out in a barn for a hundred years) but it didn’t work out. So we did this kinda 70’s retro green fade with silver sparkle which looks crazy good. It has 24×16 and 26×14 kick drums (very big) and 12 14 and 16 inch toms. he also made a 14×8 snare to go with it.