Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- Jerry Davis wrote:
> I added a photo album: "JD at work". This is what I do 
> Drum professionaly. Hope to add the DT into the mix soon.
> I can see the possibilties...adding the electronic kit to 
> my arsenal on stage.

If you are minded to watch drumming DVDs, you should check out a 
Japanese guy named Akira Jimbo. He mixes DTX and acoustic components 
(from Yamaha, naturally!) to brilliant effect. In fact, we know he's 
beta-testing Yamaha's new sampler-based top-end module, the 
DTXtreme. "Fujiyama" is probably the best one to check out.

You can read about him on Bernhard Castiglioni's Drummerworld here:
http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Akira_Jimbo.html

You'll find a video clip you really should watch. Made me weep 
openly. (Until I saw the clip of Tony Royster Jr aged 12, and that 
one made me contemplate burning the kit and ending it all).

[sigh]

Someone else who mixes acoustic and Yamaha electronics is Tony 
Verderosa, but he's in a rather different vein. You may have seen 
him on the recent "Twix" commercials.

Stewart