Drummer--Wanted, With E-Kit Who Can Do Bonham, Moon, etc.

New York City NY

Description

17-26 only, with lots of playing time and practice under your belt and natural musical ability. I'm having a hard time rationalizing the practical gigging utility of a full size acoustic kit that can pump out 300 db, while a super loud combo amp, like a Vox AC30 (for argument's sake) fully cranked up, outputs 118 db. Actually neither the Vox or the full size kit is actually necessary given the size of the small venues or the availability of quality sound and monitoring systems at large and medium sized high end venues. Plus I like the idea of a cleaner mix with less mic bleed going on, a smaller band footprint. I don't think instrument volume overkill is really necessary. Send something to listen to in your response. If we like what we hear and it seems like you're a good fit, musically and on a personal level and your professional goals are in sync with ours we'll talk further. We want a top notch drummer, to put it bluntly. We're not settling for just ok. We are smart, easy to get along with and no booze or drugs but that last listed attribute happened by accident, not by intentional design. Guitarist/writer/leader is covering startup costs, rehearsal space, recording costs and will seriously consider, later on, buying a dedicated high end E-kit for gigs/rehearsals in a dedicated space if everything works out. About the music, well it will be a bit of genre hopping and blending, but not stacking, a lot of that stuff sounds stupid to my ears. This band will be guitar driven melodic and noisy, rocky and power pop driven, a bit progressive and edgy, occasional uptempo ballad, jazzy and swingin is better than a slow ballad that will never fly played live, blues rock but not typical I IV V progressions. Looking to reflect the past classic flavors and my influences naturally squeak through but working towards giving the elements an updated twist. Nothing dumb and relentlessly repetitive and chord progressions, riffs, arrangements will be well thought out and arranged.