Oh ya! I remember, WE get all the girls!

Inspirational photo. So much so, I wanted to share one, too. However, my little girl, now almost 7, likes golf, baseball, football, cars and many other boy-things, but has no interest in drums. Music, though, is still a big interest of hers. Who knows, maybe she'll circle back to playing some drums.

Very very sweet, now there's a vintage drummer.

My daughters loved playing on my drums when they were little, I gave lessons to one for about a year, but she moved on to clarinet, sax, guitar, and piano. They both play piano. One day I found them in my drum room recently and proclaimed "some day this will all be yours" to which my daughter responded, just make sure you leave instructions on how to get the most money for them because we're selling them.

I wonder if the next generation will be into older stuff like we are? Is collecting more of a recent phenomenon? (last 20 yrs.) Anyone remember drummers playing or collecting vintage stuff when you were a kid?

Most of the guys I know where into the next new thing. I always wanted the latest fad in drums until a few years ago.

What a great picture! Your daughter is adorable.

I didn't start playing until I was 14, so there's still time yet for your daughter to get back into drumming. :)

When I started drumming as a teenager in the early 90s, there was a big retro movement--Lenny Kravitz and the Black Crowes were on the charts, and that led a lot of us back to the Allmans, Hendrix, Santana, and the other greats of the 60s and 70s. So my friends and I were never interested in flashy new drums; we were ordering catalogs from the Vintage Drum Center and drooling over Super Classics and Slingerlands. Me, I was sold on vintage drums from the first time I saw Michael Shrieve's drum solo in the Woodstock movie. Between Levon Helm and Phil Collins, I was dreaming of vintage Gretsch from the time I was 14.

But that's still within the past 20 years. As you say, things might have been different before that. I'm sure there have always been people who loved vintage instruments, but the widespread love of vintage gear might have been linked to the "back-to-basics" approach that guys like Kravitz and the Crowes took as a reaction to the glossy 80s vibe.

Thanks McD and S2. Since that post, both of my girls have been working my kit; kinda' like two kids driving a car- one working the pedals and one on the seat. It had its moments. I didn't start playing till I was 11, so they both (the younger one is 4 1/2) have lots of time to reconsider.

Last year when my son began to show interest in drums, we were at the local shop. He sat down behind a new TAMA StarClassic. The top of the line in that display. There were a few lowend, and some midline Luds and a Gretsch American in the shop as well. Knowing nothing at all about drums, he did the normal things a kid does, except instead of just bangin hell out of them. He tried to put together a beat.

As he made his way around the different kits, he instinctively, with no prompting from me or the store owner, avoided the low end crap. Now, this boy has never been that close to drums, and knew nothing at all, did not look at any pricing etc. He made some comments about the different tones of the kits and we all discussed the options.

After he was done, he said to us "I like these, pointed to the Gretsch, then the TAMA, then the Luds, in order, and made his statement. "I like all these, but I am afraid to hurt new ones. Daddy, can you find me some old, good drums? And maybe something not too much in case I don't like to play drums?"

Now, honestly, we have been having some difficulty since the economy tanked as I am a Salesman by trade. I can do other stuff, I choose sales for the flexibility. I can pretty much go where I want in terms of what or whom to work for. Anyway, I go online and find his Majestics, and since they were 100% complete and so very affordable, I went for it. I had to do a complete deep cleaning and restoration, but they sound great now that they are tuned.

Since that time, when we go to the store to pick up whatever, he hops over and makes comments about what is wrong or right with each kit. The Gretsch, he asked, could one day he get a "old" set of these? The saleman looked at me and said he knew where to get one in 18-12-14....yeah, and do I look like I can afford those? He called the owner against my wish. I looked at him, informed him, "Look, there is no way in hell I can afford them, don't bother..." When he came back, he asked if I had any idea what the gentleman had asked. I looked directly in his eyes, took a deep breath and said, "without you getting anything, he is at 10 grand"...the guy walked away, mumbling something about getting to the next estate sale...

Moral: My now 10 year old is a "vintage drummer"...he loves all these old, good looking and sounding drums that come through our living room.

Well Jonnistix, that makes your son the youngest vintage drummer mentioned in this thread!

Cool, he seems to have a natural appreciation for some good stuff!!!!

And someday, when the rain starts to pour dollars on the lawn again, I will get him an American Vintage kit. I am this close to a deal on a Ludwig Combo, circa '65, just out of reach. And the seller, although a friend, is getting antsy and needs to move it on, or find the matching 14" floor tom for less than a King's Randsom, to complete it as a Club Date. He lost the originlal 14 some years back after a gig in Kansas I believe was where he said they where when it "went astray". I have a nice 14" MIJ B/S floor tom, but it is my son's and stays....it is a close match, both in color and sonically...so it could go with one day.