1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Roland v drums are pretty solid too. Idk about your area, but I see electronic sets for sale all the time on marketplace. Option two requires a lot more work, but you can get a real drum set and get quiet or low volume drum heads and cymbals. They also make mutes for the heads and cymbals. Or you can ball out and get the

Electronic set:
Pros - can be found for decent price, fun, lot of features, compact if you're tight on space, smaller drum head so you're not playing all over the place and you have better accuracy. Could be a con at first, but it doesn't allow you to get sloppy.
Cons - I hate the thwack sound it makes when you play it, does not feel as good to play, you need headphones or a pretty decent speaker to play it. Doesn't have good sensitivity for how hard you hit the pads vs how loud they play.

Acoustic set:
Pros - I mean do I really have to line this one out.., can be found for pretty cheap on marketplace, you can get an electronic head and turn it into an electronic kit.
Cons - take up a ton of room, if in a small room they're exponentially louder, requiring tuning and upkeep.

But one thing most people miss is getting a rug underneath the kit so you don't fuck up the flooring or carpet.

 

I wanna see the paint on that tundras roof after that haha

 

1994 Skyline Weekender M1110 EXT
Approx weight 2850 lbs

*The dry weight of a 1994 Skyline Weekender model M1110 is approximately 2,850 pounds, according to a camper forum. This weight is likely the base weight before adding any options or cargo.*

YOIKES that 1GT has a load on its back

 

I'm going to sell my roof basket soon once I finish up Project Roof Rack. Only reason to keep it now would be asthetics but I don't have a way of mounting it on the cap.

 

Done. It’s hot AF outside

 

Hot but not swampy out, so I can’t complain. Hanging at the old folks home visiting my Mom. At least she’s up and about. Got out of acrylic painting 101 and has her own pad; no roomies.

 

Done and done! Yeah, the only reason I went e-drums is b/c I wanted a trainer, and we have limited room.

As-is with the rec room, with all the video game consoles, all my records, the amps, bass and electric guitars, we barely have room to put anything else without it looking over-cluttered. The couch is too large, that's going away soon, and I'm hoping I can setup my tables/mixer, and other equipment before too much longer. If I could've fit a full kit in there, I would have. But I think my youngest will like having access to my equipment to get his hands on records, play with mixing and scratching, etc.

Really, that's the main reason behind the e-piano. I wanted him (youngest is the one who primarily plays it, dude is a savant with keys) to have access to full-size keys and pedals in proportional form factor so practice was consistent with reality. But there was no way in hell I was getting an upright or even a baby grand anywhere in this house, not only would fitment into the house be an issue, I'm not carrying a piano up any stairs, and I had no interest in tuning the damn thing every other season when temps changed.

I was pissed when my parents wouldn't buy me a drum kit in the 5th grade. I got to play alto sax instead. Total bullshit. Gave it up after a year and took up guitar. Told myself then and there, if I ever have kids, I'll buy any musical instrument they want to learn as long as they touch it (the musical instrument) at least once a week.

 

whoa whoa whoa..... let's talk about that record collection. fellow collector over here. I approve that wall of sound!

 

In my teens/20s I was a DJ, played out a fair bit. Mostly warehouse parties and misc gigs. There's a chunk of soul and funk in there, but the brunt of it in order of greatest to least is breaks/electro, DnB (mostly liquid funk), prog house, trance, deep house. And at least one square is old school punk/DC Hardcore, etc.

 

I just laughed real hard at this. as a fellow band geek back in the day - brass section - trumpet 1st chair. lets go lol

 

Sounds like me, you, @Sirfive and his French horn need to have a band camp reunion

Just kidding, I have a clarinet and a flute I bought from Goodwill for the kids but I doubt I can play any woodwinds anymore, and the flute escaped me.

 

A decent piano is a decent piano. They learn so fast when they're young. I hated it at the time, but I'm very thankful for the lessons I took. Only other thing I actually formally learned was the trumpet, but I taught myself everything else. Hell I don't even own an actual piano. I just have a midi keyboard I plug into software. My electric guitar rig is literally ran off of my iPad Pro. In a perfect world you really just need a big shed or backyard garage for the music stuff haha. Don't even get me started on out of tune. That's like nails on a chalkboard for me haha.

 

HELL YEAH BROTHER!!!!!

 

My man haha.

 

^^^ about the band getting back together - LETS GO!

 

Yeah, it doesn't have the springback of legit heads. Very dead-ish blow, like practice pads.

 

Tundras to band camp?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfcQRXAgtgE&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

 

How many ya got? I have 528 in my LP database (more in 45's, no 78's) and about another 15 or so I haven't entered yet. Very diverse. Lotsa jazz vocals - Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nancy Wilson etc. Also considerable long hair and swing bands. Full collection of Julie London, and every variation issued of South Pacific both broadway and film. Just some examples. I have 2 Kenwood KD-2000 turntables, one pushing through a 1959 Fisher 14 tube Hi-Fi console I electrically restored and the other through a 1980 Technics SA-616 amp driving 80 WPC into a pair of Polk Audio LS50 speakers. That big Technics weighs 40 lbs! I've been at it for 70+ years.

 

I'm glad that fire didn't affect y'all.

 

That explains so much. Glad to have you around to talk music, bud.

 

First time seeing an owl in my yard or this close. A Barred Owl according to chatGPT.

 

Yeah, music has been a large part of life since I was old enough to talk. I grew up playing old honkytonk and Motown records and 8-tracks, and some occasional oddballs like Harlow Wilcox, Herb Alpert, probably before I could put together 2-3 word sentences. Music was always playing in the house as a kid. Mostly country western and honkytonk, because ... deep south. I exhausted their stuff by the time I was in 2nd/3rd grade and started digging out into the world. Stuff like Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Led Zep, Hendrix, it all bent my brain a little bit, started skateboarding at 10, watching skate vids you'd hear all kinds of crazy stuff, opened the doors wider.

Never got sick of exploring. I was never one of those, "I hate XYZ genre!", I'd give anything a shot, and wouldn't have an opinion til I listened to a dozen or two different samples. Not much I can't get into, minus muzak/elevator, smooth jazz ala Kenny G, shit like Michael Bolton and Celine Dion, anything that abuses autotune or vocoder (classics like Zapp & Roger are exempt), mumble rap?

But yeah. We talk music, you know how much I love music. Wild part is, I've listened to so much stuff in my lifetime, I can rattle off lyrics, hum bars and melodies going back 80-100 years, thousands of songs, yet I've only barely scratched the surface of what I know is out there. Some people, like DJ Shadow, and Keb Darge were digging up craaaaazy stuff that got pressed to vinyl and never made it to wide distribution over the years. And old stuff is still finding its way to light, like some years ago, a whole killer set of this stuff got released, the Eccentric Soul collection, it was really damn good. Some mindbogglingly so. Like this track, which is strangely similar in vibe to Willie Hutch's "Brothers Gonna Work It Out" (some may recognize that one from the intro to Dr. Dre's "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat" off the Chronic album). I could sit around and listen to stuff like this for days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTTtKZknJ6o​

 

That’s awesome. FYI, not cuddly. Deadly falcon like predators that will tear your flesh apart. In case you wanted to go pet it.

 

Yeah, it’s weird that my mother would only remember that from the news the other day.

 

This weekend I'm planning to swap Elvira's 360k mile AC SR5 coils and 4600's for the 160k mile DC SR5 coils and 5100's I got from @KTM_AJ421 last weekend. Then remove the front sway bar, that I've had detached on the passenger side for a while now.

I wasn't able to find much info on the color codes on the coils. I'm hoping the DC coils are the same length, just a little stiffer. I read that *most* OEM coils for our trucks are 590lb spring rate.

I'm thinking I'll take my chances and rent a coil compressor kit from one of the LAPS a block form my house, to save some skrilla. Last time I used em, in 2012ish, I didn't die and they only charged a deposit.

The challenge will be removing the SOS lowering perches from my 4600's, since they are epoxied together. @JakeJake told me to try my heat gun on high, so hopefully that works. If not, he said to send pics, and he'll try to advise me further. Fingers crossed some heat and love taps with my mallet or hammer will do the trick.

The reason I'm doing this is my sway bar end link on the passenger side kept popping. I tried replacing it, retigjtening several times, and the pop always came back eventually. I asked others with the SOS lowering kit about this issue and they said they didn't experience it. I even tried shorter end links for Tacoma S-Runner, which made it worse haha. My theory is the lowering kit, in combination with the sway bar, doesn't have hardly any up travel, and the inclines/declines to enter/exit my work parking lot have taken a toll on my setup. It's definitely been better with one side detached from the sway bar, but I miss the feeling of being better planted to the road at speed on turns and bumps. Hopefully the firmer valved 5100's and lower miles (possibly higher spring rate?) coils will do the trick.

 

Quick question. I have uploaded photos to posts before with no issues. But trying lately has not been putting them into the post. I have the pictures on my phone and have tried using both the "upload a file" and the copy paste from the folder on phone. But neither of these are adding the photos to my newly created build thread. Barring adding them to my pc at a later time, what is the easiest way to upload photos on a large scale?