Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later 

Tom's distant "YES!" is what convinced me it was real. Can't fake that.

Can we look back on when Tom tried to remove his finger prints with Pineapple?

I love the sense of mild panic about the origins of a £1 drum kit

Feels weird to watch the 7 years later video 7 years later. I hope they make another year later retrospective for this again just for the fun of it!

The blokes who sold the drum kit just wanted a minute of silence. Rule 1 of parenting: never give your kids noisy toys unless your nerves are made of nanotitanium.

If you truly hate someone, give their children a drum kit.

Britain's Got Talons? That show would be a hoot...

"Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Four Years Later"

best thing is that I've never seen this channel until 10 mins ago, when I got 2 drums and a cymbal in my recommended.

If you have to ask why a parent would sell a drum kit for 99p then you have never had children. I always threatened my sister I would give her little boy a drum kit for Christmas. I never did, I am not a sadist.

I like the way Tom says, "I can't beatbox", with a tone that suggests he had never tried before but for a brief moment there was a possibility he might be a natural.

All right, fine, you complained last week that we weren't on a park bench. I've updated the opening title accordingly! -- Tom

A kid can make a hell of a racket with a drum kit. I bet the guy was willing to pay you to take it away.

"Is the child alright? Has he gotten divorced?" That's one downbeat child, damn.

The fact that this video is 7 years old makes me feel it’s time for Part 3: “Looking Back at Looking Back at Two Drums and a Cymbal, 7 Years Later, 7 Years Later.”

Fun fact two years later: Trespass in the UK becomes actual trespass (and therefore illegal) only once the property owner (or his representative - shop manager, bar-keep, bouncer etc) has actually told the unwanted person or people to leave. Which is why in the great Harrods sit-in a few years ago, the shop staff got the police to come down, then told the folks involved in the sit-in to leave - they knew the police couldn't do anything until the sit-in folks had been told but once they had been told the police had the power to shift them if they didn't go voluntarily. So, no, you weren't trespassing on private land but if the owner had asked you to leave and you didn't, that's when it would have become trespass. And that, pinching Tom's phrase, is something you might not have known. (I did the SIA door supervisor course a few years ago, we had to learn this stuff, is how I know it.)

This video mentioning a video that was 7 years old, is 7 years old right now. Wild.

"It never converted into subscribers". Maybe not a LOT of them, but I found Tom's channel through two drums and a cymbal and have enjoyed plenty of its content ever since.

Now it's time for "Two drums and a cymbal, 7 years later, 7 years later"

So it's Feb. 1st, 2019. I'm sitting in the bathroom, looking at RU-vid on my phone (as you do) and I thought "oh my god....was 'Two Drums and a Cymbal' Matt and Tom? I saw that video back in the day, but thinking about it now 'badger in a blender' was *totally* in Matt's voice, right?" Sure enough, here we are. What an amazing, TEN YEAR circle to go through. I loved this video back then; I love your guys' content now; I just found that it was you two. How neat.

I clicked on this video thinking "heh, 'seven years later' seven years later... I wonder if someone has made that joke yet" only to sort comments by new and see everyone has made that joke yet

Don't be so hard on yourself, Tom. I'm sure you can beatbox better than any of the owls on Britain's Got Talons, and you've already got the gloves. Audition time!!!

He seemed down-beat... about a drum kit... *ba-doom-crash*

For Sale Child's Drums Never Played

3:44 In Tom's own words: THIS ISN'T TECHNICALLY ILLEGAL!

It’s so weird that roughly the same amount of time has passed between the release of the Cymbal video and this video, than this video is to today

How did they both miss the obvious joke about the guy with the drum kit feeling DOWNBEAT???

Owl based reality show? Reminds me of this line from Citation Needed: "Simon Cowell's Owl Towels, made with real owls."

Main takeaway from the video: Tresspasing is legal in the uk

"He seemed a little downbeat." - Badum-tsh!

Looking back at looking back at two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later It’s like if Michael Apted had big ‘guy talking about the Garfield pipe strip’ energy

Lockdown: Watching this years later. Goes back to video filmed years earlier. Goes to see pineapple fingerprint video. Overall reaction: Tom's HAIR!!!

Tom I'm afraid you need to buy a red coat...

Nobody: Tom: Has the child gotten a divorce

We're all waiting for "Looking Back At Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later"

Looking back at looking back at two drums and a cymbal, 7 years later 7 years later

When you buy a drum kit for a small child, there's no batteries to remove. first there would have been joy when he got notified it was sold, then the deflation when you handed him a pound, probably didn't know whether to thank you for the peace and quiet he gets, or to be angry at the measly reward. :D

Also: ‘Looking back at “Looking back at ‘Two drums and a cymbal’ seven years later” four years later’?

this video is now 7 years old. can we get a video looking back on this video looking back on the two drums and a cymbal video please.

Rewatching this in 2022 after the Tom Scott Pluss episode with Matt as a guest and they meet some owls, made me giggle at the Britain's got Talons part of this.

I'm so glad that you're proud of your older work (or at least that video). I still enjoy rewatching that "era" of your videos - Extra Light Pancakes, Iron Fortified Breakfast, etc. I've been following your work for around ten years now, and I think all of it is brilliant, and I'm very happy you're still making things.

Did you hear about the man who had to sell his drum kit? He was rather downbeat.

It has now been 7 years since this 7-years-ago video. We need a "'Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later', Seven Years Later".

The out-takes are my favourite part. You're adorable.

Britain's Got Talons, hosted by reality star Simon Owl

I love how Tom simultaneously looks 50 and 23.

If you guys have raw footage of it, why can't you re-edit it so it's in better compression? :)

He seemed a little downbeat... well it was only a little drumkit! :D

"Forget the X factor, Mongolia's got talons" was the name of a newspaper article we had as a source in a GCSE English past paper

cool... I just watched the old video... And a few hours later you upload this video.

We need a remake in HD

Can you do a follow up to this 6 years from now the meta would be so hype

looking back at looking back at two drums at a cymbal, seven years later, six years later

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

Please do one about the Large Pina Collider.

It feels very fitting I saw this seven years after it was posted.

Seven Years... it's like a war could fit in that time, and you could even name it after fitting into Seven Years, not taking any longer. Or... well... you couldn't, but it's a good name.

They tend to be called a "flying fox" here in New Zealand too, rather than a "zip line"

That was a fun day - I also got one of my favourite photos of me on that day on the Flying Fox (thanks Matt).

That one was great! It was so funny (not the joke, but your reaction when it succeeded). :-)

iin Australia we call them flying foxes too actually... at least i think. we might use the name for a different piece of play equipment

Britain’s Got Talons would be an amazing show about falconry. If you ever make a new game show about outdoor games called something pun heavy like “Outstanding In Their Field” where you get people from STEM fields or farmers to compete in games it would be great!

Only someone with no kids would say "I don't know why someone would sell a perfectly good kids drum kit"

Can’t wait for “Looking Back At Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal Seven Years Later Seven Years Later” only one more year.

For Sale: Child's drum kit. Never used.

Me finally realizing that I HAVE actually seen Tom and Matt on the internet before.

I can't help but notice that the clip of the drum drop at 5:43 seems to be higher-quality than the original video. Perhaps there's room for a remaster to celebrate its 7th + 7th anniversary.

I hope in 2023 you guys make 'Looking Back At Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later'

Would you mind if I started a Change.org petition to get Britain's Got Talons started?

Between the man selling a child's drum kit for £1, and the student buying a child's drum kit for £1, I can only imagine they looked at each other, made the exchange, silently nodded, and parted ways without a word.

Two Drums and a Cymbal is probably the first Tom Scott video I watched.

Now its 11 years

I think there's more to the trespass thing in the UK than you mention. It's not a criminal offence, but you can be sued for trespass. So, if a sign says "trespassers will be prosecuted", it should actually say "trespassers will be sued".

Can't wait for "Looking back at looking back at two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later" in 2023

and now this is 7 years ago

Now’s the perfect time for the sequel

Old video, but I can certainly tell you why he was selling it for a pound. A family member had almost certainly given the kid a drum kit for Christmas, and it was driving the poor parents insane. Source: my uncle gave me a drum kit for Christmas, when we lived in a tiny apartment. My mom didn't speak to him for several weeks afrerwards.

Matt and Tom, it's finally time, looking back at two drums and a cymbal, 7 years later, 7 years later

Just imagine the claws on a contract to be on Britain's got Talons.

now we need a video looking back at this video, 7 years later again

“He seemed a little down beat about it.” Bu-dum che

Matt's laugh makes me happy :D

Then: Looking back at “Looking back at two drums and a cymbal 7 years later” 4 years later

11 years later and the video is still gold.

The sequel we never knew we needed.

Two drums and a cymbal, a classic

It's 7 years later, feels like they should look back at it.

Lookin back at “looking back at ‘two drums and a cymbal’ 7 years later” 5 years later

Now we need a "Looking Back At Two Drums And A Cymbal, Seven Years Later, Seven Years Later"

Next year I’ll be waiting for two drums and a cymbal, seven years later, seven years later. (With the technical difficulties of course)

“Looking Back At “Looking Back At Two Drums And A Symbol, Seven Years Later” Seven Years Later”

Happy seven years on this one!

Warching this vid 7 years after it was made.

I remember watching this video way back 8 years ago now. Crazy how much has changed since this video was uploaded

It was faked, there was a second drummer in the grassy knoll!

And now it's been seven years from this video. Time flies.

The man, the legend

After quarantine you should look back at this video

And now this is 7 years old. Crazy.

Looking back at "Looking Back at "Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall Off a Cliff" Seven Years Later" Four Years Later