This vintage drummer is two years and three months older than I was when this thread first started.

LOL - This thread should have been set up as poll. That way, we'd all get to see what a 'virtual' senior citizen center this web-site really is! Hurting

I'll bet there are more guys here eligible to be collecting Social Security than you can shake a drum stick at! Falling Do

John

PS - This is also a real 'boys-club' here. We gotta get some chicks to join!

hey i resemble that remark

How old is a vintage thread?

If you bought the kit new and now it's considered vintage, what does that make you? Why do people keep calling the music I play "classic rock" when I started playing it we just called it rock.

A srummer that has been playing since 1979 is a vintage drummer

Started in '69 so that cinches it!!! Vintage sounds a little better than "older than dirt" though!

I started in 1959 when I was 10 years old. I'm almost 64 and I'm still gigging 6-8 gigs a month with 3 different Blues bands.I'm vintage and so is all my gear. I even have a few snare drums that are older than me!

That's awesome! You know, for a non-musician retirement is something you look forward to, but for a musician, it's something you want to put off as long as possible. Of course in my case that's partly because there's no pension!!!

So in conclusion, older drummers are more likely to play vintage drums than younger drummers but many younger drummers are playing vintage drums.. It still seems that collectors of vintage drums are def. older guys.