where do I go ha ha ha I don't want to
go to sound check I want to play in here
look at this you know this all you know
what that would be fun to drive but I
would get in big trouble
won't our drummers have a reputation
come on of causing trouble I am I I
behave otherwise I would be driving that
thing I'd love to drive a Zamboni like
at the Molson centre let's do this we're
going to be we're going to be sharing
our little world with everybody here so
thank you for doing that by the way yeah
Jordan said that it was using a semitone
or something but yeah they were a little
off no sense of changing it alright yet
so go ahead and introduce your kid oh ok
how long does it take you to set this
bad Larry up by 2 hours 2 hours 2 hours
to have show ready to our staff show
ready here so now a quick description of
the kit is that it's set up initially
for melody in other words when I first
did this configuration I wasn't able to
play it
I was not certainly not able to play
fully lefty like this you know left foot
on the kick and there's never able to do
anything like that so I had to develop
that skill in order to play this this
kit was conceived before it was able to
be played I see what you're saying it
the tones go from the middle out one two
three four five six seven and the Garn
drum right now is over there which
causes a few SC joint issues everything
that you notice the cannon tom so the
two drums appear you see here a
collection of clear Remo Emperor heads
they I don't change I don't have to
change the heads every show or ever even
every couple of shows because the the
way they made it with the film they just
don't pit or dent anymore like they did
you know 30 years ago or something so
also this is a pearl master
drumkit my very first master works from
well over a dozen years ago the hardware
is all pearl you can see it's an icon
rack with a bunch of you know a bunch of
clamps and stands and stuff the Remo
heads working perfectly I get the p77
so the sniper has a lot of crack I like
snare drums with crack like this you
know I'm just a sucker for that old neo
pit sound and a stewart copeland and
stuff like that but it doesn't quite fit
everything I've done in my career yet I
have an array of Zildjian cymbals here I
just want to explain quickly that these
symbols are used for melody and they go
from low to high one two three four five
this tambourine is emanating like the
perfect the perfect thing and we have a
fabulous microphone on it and speaking
of that these microphones here are my
babies my sure SM 98 s they've been on
every record that I do I don't go
anywhere without them and it's great
because they fit in perfectly and they
have like a nice they capture the
high-end and the depth - so these are
absolutely fantastic my favorite and
they're all appear Boop's there on the
the tube drums - each one bait a 98
number one bait a 98 number to bait a 98
number three 98 number four four here it
is so that's the basic premise of the
kit I've got my wicked Pistons right
my wicked Pistons so when I want to go
extra fast I just choked up a little bit
because there's you know
it would be hard to have all that weight
move at that speed but when I play the
songs and there's a lot of space in
these astonishing songs you know I can
wind up and really blast into the drum
which might distort the camera but I'll
give you a couple of how do you do
that's a little Steve Smith lick right
there hi Steve thank you anyway
all right so monitor world like one of
my hearing during the show first of all
this is the Dream Theater standard
drummer ear pack and it says mic on it
so that works very well for me and right
that's been around for a while actually
that's been around for a long time right
here so I think about this for a minute
how am I supposed to playing Dream
Theater songs which is you know I'm
playing a lot of stuff what ham do I
have to manipulate this I don't have any
so Eric has to know kind of face signals
from me like this means I know he's got
to go up I see this here which Eric
decided to to have me look at as a last
thought before I go up play the drums
for the astonishing show boom there it
is easy birdie the golf reflects here it
reflects back and that's our world
it's nice birdie