Name: Bill Burr - Drum Talk (02-06-17)
Uploaded: 2017-02-06T12:11:52.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Drum Talk (02-06-17)' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-02-06. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Burr - Drum Talk (02-06-17)' from Bill Burr Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-02-06. Transcript available.

finally because i got i got rid of a ton of shit um i put my uh my old ludwig
kit up for sale
um the symbols everything it's the whole fucking john bonham setup 1971 green
sparkle ludwig
uh all the pasty symbols even the rogers hi-hat that he had i'm finally letting
go of that that
fanboy era is done you know i had a lot of fun with that kit but it's just
fucking gigantic
and um 26 inch bass drum i don't want that you know what i want i want to i
want a 12 14 16 22 kick
that's what the fuck i want i never liked the sound of those symbols i like the
hi-hats but i never
liked the sound of his the fucking ride he could make it sound good i couldn't
um so i've been
getting into a bunch of other different sounds all this shit that i always
heard in my fucking head
i really just kind of came to this realization as someone who does that as a
hobby that uh
i don't know that i was you're not really creating you're just sort of recreating
when you do shit
like that like you get so into a musician that you want to buy all this shit
the exact shit that they
had and then what it's fucking it's just i don't know there was just i just
kept picturing john
bonham coming back to life and for whatever reason walking into my house and
then i go oh my god john
bonham hey you're like jesus but you're a drummer come on in hey by the way you
know i'm a huge fan of
yours yeah come on check out my drum kit and he would walk in and see his exact
drum kit right down
to the rogers hi-hat and then he would get like that uh i was joking with a
buddy of mine today over
text he would get that single white female vibe for me and he would just slowly
back out of the room
like oh yeah yeah that's great that's great just leave so um i don't know i'm
gonna go out i'm trying
out all the kits i heard that gretch broadcaster with the three ply is you know
has a great sound
dw obviously amazing drums i grew up everybody that i watched used to play the
tamas tama however the
fuck you say it pearl uh the ludwigs um you know it's funny i phil rudd always
played sonar or whatever
and uh the great benny grebb plays those but they they don't fucking nobody has
them
they're like these amazing fucking drums they're super expensive and i've never
seen i've never seen
them um you know not that i go to guitar center anymore you know i i go there's
there's a place out
here called uh uh professional drum shop and they got some great out there plus
it's more you know
they're like a legendary place you know dude i went in there i know this is all
drum
but i ran to a drummer recently he goes talk more drums man so all right it
yeah i ran into
somebody saying oh you know you should talk more about that drum stuff so that's
basically what i want to do and then i want to get like uh just a i can't even
like uh
i'm trying to explain the sound to a buddy of mine that i'm looking for with cymbals
but i'm going to
try all of them out sabians minel i love the sound of those things at least you
know what's weird is
you see the professional guys play them and they make them sound so good and
then you buy the exact
one and then you're like that doesn't sound the way it started when he did it
that's because you're a
comedian um so uh yeah so i'm gonna sell that kit and then the money i get from
that i'm gonna the
game plan is to buy that a new kit brand new no more of this old trying to
figure stuff out
oh that was gonna say about that pro drum shop place this is how great that
place is
i had a snare stand and um one of the you know the thing you screw into to hold
it in the place
whatever the you call it would you call that a nut i have no idea all i know is
it got stripped and
it didn't it didn't work anymore now if you ever went to guitar center they'd
be like oh you know
you gotta buy a new one i walked into there and the guy just takes it and he
went in the back he
machined the thing so it worked again he goes there you go i was like how much
he's like
i don't know it's three bucks four bucks that doesn't exist anymore oh yeah so
the game plans
i'm gonna buy that kit and then i'm gonna find some rehearsal space somewhere
nearby
some place for a couple hundred bucks a month and i'm gonna put it in there
all right and whenever i can that's gonna be my man cave all right because you
know what the happens you know what i mean you have a kid you're married you
know gradually all
your just starts disappearing okay my wife can't wait she can't she couldn't
you know
she's happy i like the drums but no woman wants a 26 inch bass drum in a travel
case like i'm on the
road with the rolling stones and another four drums stacked up on top of that
you know in front of the
bed in the guest room nobody wants it well they don't want that so um i don't
know but you know
what i gotta give this to her she never told me to sell the thing all i know is
when i told
her that i was selling it i saw the excitement in her eye and then i tested her
and i said yeah but
then i'm gonna go buy another one and it's gonna live right there and she just
stared at me and i just
started laughing oh here's the sonar is this their website oh that's them and
nom the nom show where
all the shredders go see here you know i was in uh sam ash the other day right
and uh
i wanted to see if they had it what the fuck oh i know i went there i actually
can't say why i went there
i won't get caught i just had all these extra drumsticks and i had all this
that i was getting
rid of that i just don't use and i'm like what am i gonna do with this stuff i
can't sell old drumsticks
on a on ebay or some so what i did was i just bundled them all together and
just left them
in their parking lot you know some kid's gonna walk in there and be like holy
if i got i got you know i had like 40 pairs of all these different drumsticks
over the years i just
bundled them all and just stuck them there like a cowbell a couple other things
so at that point i'm like all right i got kind of feeling guilty so i went to
the sand
mash i was like i don't buy a pair of drumsticks and there was some kid in
there
just doing that drumming where he's amazing but all the whole thing it's just
one
fill after another those linear 30 second note fills played nine million miles
an hour
every after what it just all sounds the same
fucking like i almost started laughing because the kid was amazing but after a
while i was just like dude
you sound like you're
you sound like you snorted a couple of eight balls jesus christ
maybe i'm just getting old that was how about putting a little air in there you
know the old
guy who can't play as good as a young kid he's jealous of his chops but jesus
christ