We are on track! :-)
We started rehearsals for the first leg of the tour now.
It started out with Pelles old Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute that he used for like forever it seems.
He got them when Yamaha released them to the world market.
They have the old badge attached direct to the drum with glue. (new ones are screwed onto with a plastic distance between)
This is not his actual drum but shows what I mean.
The newer version:
The one we carry this tour:
Something in between, without plastic distance but with screws. :-/
How ever, we used the old kit because the new was late from Germany.
They arrived 2nd day of rehearsals so I decide to change it the next week.
This gave me time to prepere the kit on the evenings after rehearsals.
New heads and som TLC. :-)
I will go thrue all the details of how the hardware is built some other time.
Stands and screws are carefully chosen by me, (Pelles, and Roxettes drum tech)
Thanks to the massive support from Yamaha (with Lars as our contact) they supplied us with new hoops for the snare side of the snare.
The snare is a absolutley fantastic Aluminum 14"x5.5" chrome beauty.
It has the new fast take off snare strainer to release the snare without changing your settings.
Tho I customised it at once, like I always do with everything by the way.
The bottom hoop shown on the picture was changed to a regular without the extended snare gap.
Simply to save space in the cases and make it more flexible in the snare stand.
The other drums are fitted with the hoops of our chose from factory, Triple flange hoop.
this makes the Oak drums sound softer and more "loose" compared to for example the dyna hoop wich would get the Oak drums to sound more like a shot gun than a cozy-pozy-hugable-tom ;-)
When the kit was intruduced for the band today Per Gessle showed his faschination by filming it and put it on the web.
The best part is not in the movie tho...
When they played the first song of the day Per looks at the monitor guy Peter and says:
What did you do to the drums? And Peter almost faint of fear, -I did nothing, we changed the drums he says, until Per goes:
It sounds like in the studio, so nice and clean. Make them dirty!
HAHA! That's the way I supose he means the drums are tuned the right way.
These drums have a natural punch becouse of the oak, it's hard as h**l!
Thats why one want to use the soft tripple flange hoops to loosen it up a bit.
And as a sagged drum tech it was no problem getting these to sound good.
The sound guy liked these new drums much more then the old Maple Custom Absolute.
And when soundsheckin' they did'nt want to change anything.
This type of drum will be perfect for this kind of big venue tour.
It will be very big halls or outdoor arenas and festivals.
What's used is an YAMAHA OAK CUSTOM:
Every roadis best friend on tour. (and it smells like a red light district)
This is the new (left) and old (right) kick drums shown with the old and new drumhead.
Both with permanent mounted pillow. and a 5" hole. (do you see Mickey Mouse?)
The pillow wont go anywere...
Last of all the new and old drum with both new heads on:
New head during mounting and making hole.
This is the world tour kick drum:
Now some sleep before a new day of rehearsals.
It started out with Pelles old Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute that he used for like forever it seems.
He got them when Yamaha released them to the world market.
They have the old badge attached direct to the drum with glue. (new ones are screwed onto with a plastic distance between)
This is not his actual drum but shows what I mean.
The newer version:
The one we carry this tour:
Something in between, without plastic distance but with screws. :-/
How ever, we used the old kit because the new was late from Germany.
They arrived 2nd day of rehearsals so I decide to change it the next week.
This gave me time to prepere the kit on the evenings after rehearsals.
New heads and som TLC. :-)
I will go thrue all the details of how the hardware is built some other time.
Stands and screws are carefully chosen by me, (Pelles, and Roxettes drum tech)
Thanks to the massive support from Yamaha (with Lars as our contact) they supplied us with new hoops for the snare side of the snare.
The snare is a absolutley fantastic Aluminum 14"x5.5" chrome beauty.
It has the new fast take off snare strainer to release the snare without changing your settings.
Tho I customised it at once, like I always do with everything by the way.
The bottom hoop shown on the picture was changed to a regular without the extended snare gap.
Simply to save space in the cases and make it more flexible in the snare stand.
The other drums are fitted with the hoops of our chose from factory, Triple flange hoop.
this makes the Oak drums sound softer and more "loose" compared to for example the dyna hoop wich would get the Oak drums to sound more like a shot gun than a cozy-pozy-hugable-tom ;-)
When the kit was intruduced for the band today Per Gessle showed his faschination by filming it and put it on the web.
The best part is not in the movie tho...
When they played the first song of the day Per looks at the monitor guy Peter and says:
What did you do to the drums? And Peter almost faint of fear, -I did nothing, we changed the drums he says, until Per goes:
It sounds like in the studio, so nice and clean. Make them dirty!
HAHA! That's the way I supose he means the drums are tuned the right way.
These drums have a natural punch becouse of the oak, it's hard as h**l!
Thats why one want to use the soft tripple flange hoops to loosen it up a bit.
And as a sagged drum tech it was no problem getting these to sound good.
The sound guy liked these new drums much more then the old Maple Custom Absolute.
And when soundsheckin' they did'nt want to change anything.
This type of drum will be perfect for this kind of big venue tour.
It will be very big halls or outdoor arenas and festivals.
What's used is an YAMAHA OAK CUSTOM:
- Kick 22"x17"
- Rack tom 12"x9"
- Floor tom 16"x16"
- Snare 14"x5.5" Crome over Aluminum
Every roadis best friend on tour. (and it smells like a red light district)
This is the new (left) and old (right) kick drums shown with the old and new drumhead.
Both with permanent mounted pillow. and a 5" hole. (do you see Mickey Mouse?)
The pillow wont go anywere...
Last of all the new and old drum with both new heads on:
New head during mounting and making hole.
This is the world tour kick drum:
Now some sleep before a new day of rehearsals.
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