Ludwig Legacy Classic: Chip Kilpatrick Complains like An Old Man About "Kits These Days"
Chip Kilpatrick -- drummer for Wild Sweet Orange -- may seem like a whipper-snapper, but he's really an old fogy trapped in a younger man's body. Just listen to him talk about how "it was better back when" and "drum makers these days" when talking about why he chose the Ludwig Legacy Classic shell kit to tour with. Sure it's a sound argument, but that doesn't keep Chip from sounding like an octogenarian curmudgeon. Also, all the the other guys I know named "Chip" were born before The Great War. Must have been nice knowing all that prosperity . . . not like it is today. You old people don't know how good you had it!
CHIP KILPATRICK: Hey. I’m Chip from Wild Sweet Orange. I play the drums.
PATRICK OGLE: What do you use? What Ludwig kit do you use? Is it a vintage one or is it...?
CHIP KILPATRICK: No. It’s a reissue. It’s just a Ludwig Classic that came out a couple of years ago and, you know,of course I want -- I do want great vintage drums but the problem with vintage drums and touring is that they’re not really, you know -- They used to be able to hold up every night but you can’t take a 1966 kit out and play it every day and expect it to --
PATRICK OGLE: Hold up.
CHIP KILPATRICK: Right. So, I ordered a new one it and has new hardware and you know it’s not quite made the same way as the old ones as far as the beveled edges on the tom and stuff like that, what people look for in vintage kits to record and what not, but they sound great and they look awesome.
I just think that, you know, as opposed to like vintage kits, there’s so many drum companies now, there used to only be a handful, and I think the fabricated standard kits that are coming out from all the drum companies now, excluding the custom companies, you know, they’re all about the same. You know, most drum companies use the same type of shell, killer shells, and most the custom companies use those kind of shells. So, as far as like each company having their own style of shell like they used to be like Ludwig was making their own kind, Slingerland was making their own kind, now it’s kind of all the same so I don’t think they’ll be as hot as a commodity as vintage kits are now.
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