Dave Grohl's Tama Rockstar Pro Drum Set at Museum of Pop Culture - Seattle, WA
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- I got to see these drums in person, and there seems to be very little info about them online. Check out my thoughts and if you have any more info on them, chime in.
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Tama rockstar dx and rockstar pro drums were 90s competitors to the Pearl export and export pro. Entry level drums, basswood shells, the laquer(pro) version got a 10 lug bass drum as opposed to 8 lug on the wrapped(dx).
Thanks for sharing, Tim. I'll have to check that out if I make the trip over there sometime.
thanks!
My artstar 2 16" floor tom, weighs about as much as my 22" rockstar bass drum. If that gives you any idea of how much beefier the artstar 2 drums are.
I wanna know how did Dave tune his drums back in Nirvana? Was it both heads the same tension or medium reso/ low batter? I never have found out. That goes with all drummers. Never any extremely detailed nerdy stuff anywhere.
I was reading his interview from the March ‘94 Modern Drummer recently and he had a quote saying he didn’t feel like it mattered a lot how drums are tuned if you hit them hard enough, so makes me think he didn’t put a ton of science or effort into tuning. But it would be interesting to hear more about how he tuned both heads in relation to each other, and things like that.
Seems like it would be “stunt” kit being a low end kit. Maybe had it just for smashing onstage. Could possibly be a rehearsal kit, or something he used for warming up before a show. Lots of drummers will hit the road with a stage kit and a warmup kit.
Awesome video Tim!
🙏🏽🙏🏽
Other notable drummers of the era who played Tama rockstar pro briefly before the Artstar 2, dave lombardo (giant chrome kit, you can see one in war ensemble video as well) and charlie benante (white kit for touring).
Also Steven Adler for a bit. It’s funny back then, Tama marketed their rockstar lacquer drums as “pro”. But really the only difference was the finish or the lacquer. Maybe the kicks had more lugs, but the shells were still made out of the same cheap wood makes me laugh.
fun fact, the rack tom was actually a power tom. it's like a floor tom but on the rack
Yes, but technically all the rack toms of the rockstar drums of the 90s are power tom sizing, depth is one inch less than diameter until the 10 inch size.
“Power Tom” just means they are deeper than average shells. It was big in that era. But it has nothing to do with the size of(diameter) of the drum.
You could have an 8” shell instead of the 15” that Dave used. And it could still be a “power tom”.
So.
If I remember correctly this kit is on one of the modern drummer covers he did way back then, I remember seeing nirvana in LA and he had the red art star kit which got thrown off stage at the end of the show.
Nice! I think I have that issue. I had a subscription to MD for years in the 90's. I'll have to dig it up now and look!
Here is how to tell. The artstar 2 has more triangle ends on the lugs with flat tops. Much bigger. The rockstar pro has narrower end with lines. The rockstar pro was the laquer version, rockstar dx was the wrapped version. artstar 2 really thick maple shells, rockstar basswood shells. The rockstar pro is really just a entry level kit of the 90s with the laquer finish.
appreciate that! I did notice I thought the triangle ends on Artstars looked bigger when comparing photos. That was really the only thing I could notice. Thanks for clarifying that
Awesome
It’s crazy to think that David Grohl played such a low quality drums set. It reminds me of the drummer from oasis. He played a pearl export on their first album. It’s really crazy to think about it. Both the Pearl export and the Tama rockstar are basically student model drum sets. The wood is not made of birch or maple like most professional drum sets are made from. Also on Dave’s rockstar Pro Drum set you can see that the bottom head of the 15 inch rack Tom still has the stock head on the bottom. This leads me to believe that Dave never change the heads which is again another mind fuck. 🤯
That is pretty wild! Great find on the reso head, I didn’t notice that! Makes me wonder if he used this set for band practices and took the better kits (Granstar/Artstars) out on the road 🤷🏻
I know when they recorded the first album Nevermind. I know Dave used a Tama 14" x 6.5 inch Bell brass snare drum
Yep you’re right. I think it was supplied by the Drum Doctor. I think there’s a video or 2 on RUclips where he talks about it
Here it is: ruclips.net/video/GVCI2kC_1hQ/видео.htmlsi=UP6clTok1pn4J-j4
@@TimGrisnikDrums best snare drum ever made sickest sounding snare drum ever Larson Rick used it on the Black Album in multiple Metallica albums and it sounded incredible
Other differences between the artstar 2 and rockstar pro, other than the big part (the shells)...the lugs are all die cast on the Artstar 2 and grandstar drums (heavy af) including the bass drum claws. The lugs (and bass drum claws) on the rockstar are cheap pot metal (lot of people gigged these in 90s, light by comparison).
I had a set of Rockstar DXs in the 90s. They were easy to carry around, and cheap enough to not care too much about getting scuffed up at a club. The important thing was they sounded great mic'd up in a PA. I even used them in the studio for a demo in the mid 2000s and they did so well I almost used them on the final recording! (I ended up using an 80s Pearl maple kit instead)
That rack Tom means business…
😂 yea it does
I have a Dave grohl drum set
Replica or one of his actual kits?
@@TimGrisnikDrums replica it’s pretty dang close to his
I bet that’s really fun to play. Any videos online?