Okay, so here's a question that's been burning a hole in the depths of my psyche: why in the name of percussion innovation do drum rack systems seem to require a PhD to set up? Like, seriously, I recently tried putting one together, and I'm 98% sure I accidentally built a time machine instead. (Either that or I just set my drum kit back to 1992, hard to tell with time and drums...)
Is it just me, or does it feel like every rack system is designed with the logic that only a highly-trained musician/engineer hybrid from the future could understand? For something that's supposed to make my life easier, I end up spending more time on it than on the actual playing.
Here's what I'm imagining: a drum rack system with an Ikea-style instructional manual, complete with those cute little diagrams of overly enthusiastic little stick people who are way too happy about building furniture-or in this case-musical scaffolding. Maybe even a Hotline for Rack Assembly Emergency (just in case you screw up and end up with a trampoline).
And does anyone else find the sheer number of clamps terrifying? They're like the tentacles of some metallic squid that promise stability and freedom but actually deliver chaos and mild existential dread.
So here's my plea: can we create a revolutionary drum rack system that doesn't require a week of my life, a translator of cryptic manuals, and more swearing than a piratical angry drumming convention? Discuss.