oh look at that sweet snare Style is playing. here's a Style story for your channel. Q: Who steals gear from other musicians? I'll tell ya who, Style. I had rented my sweet GMS kit to the club his band was performing at, here in Durango, CO in the late summer of '97. When I arrived to pack my drums up early the next morning after the show, I noticed my drums were already broken down. Very strange. Why would they do that? It wasn't their job. I found out why soon enough. Styles had his drum tech switch out their crap pearl piccolo wood snare for my Dave Weckl brass piccolo snare, putting the pearl drum in my drum case so I wouldn't know until I opened it up. I didn't catch it until I got my kit home and unpacked it. They tried to steal ALL my cymbals too, but I noticed the cymbal bag was missing from the stage as I was loading up. Luckily, I did this at 7am the day after the show, while those jokers were fast asleep in their motel room. I woke the club manager at 7:30am, he drove over to the motel they were in and he went into their room and retrieved my cymbal bag. Real winners those guys and their crew. At 9am I called the club manager and told him about the snare being switched out. Style and his crew knew they were busted when the club manager woke them to grab my cymbals. But knowing he missed the snare drum switcharoo, they quickly hit the road. Club manager called Style's road manager who said it was an honest mistake. Uh right? And promised to UPS it back to me when they got to Albuquerque. I never saw that drum again. What kinda musicians/people steal from other musicians like this? I wonder who is playing that Weckl snare today? Jah Love and all that horse doo doo goes right out the window when a punk like this thinks they can get away with stealing. more than twenty years later, thanks to youtube, I can see my beloved snare and the creep that stole it, once again.
