job, which I wasn’t real happy about. I had two what do you do? You don’t have a job, you’re thought this project was not going to work.
young daughters to support, and so I had to pay in a new area with two young girls starting high And then I remembered a friend by the name
the bills. So six years ago, November first, the school. And that’s when I had this picture that I of Mike Dorfman who owns Trick Drums in a
real estate office I was working in, with the real had hung in the kitchen of my Grandfather, and suburb right up the road from where I live. I
estate crash, they said that they were closing I just kept looking at how he looked so proud thought what the heck, I’ll go talk to Mike. He
and that everybody was done at the end of the and so happy testing drums at the factory. And started a drum business, and he knows me.
month. So, I went home with that hanging over from the picture I figured out the date, and he We’re friends. I bounced my idea off of him and
my head, as well as a marriage that was falling was fifty-nine, and on the back in my Father’s his face lit up and he said, “I’m in. I’ll do it”. He
apart, and picked up my daughters from school handwriting it said, “Senior starting over”, and said, “I laser cut my aluminum shells with all of
on Wednesday. My wife had moved out. And I thought, “I’m fifty-nine, if he can do it I can do the mounting holes and edges and snare beds.
then on Friday my best friend died. So that was it”. So that’s what pushed me over the edge to We could cut a roman numeral III through the
one week, and it got my attention. do this, I thought, “I’ve got to get back into the shell. I said, “Boy oh boy, here we go, I’m in”.
drum business, that’s what I know, that’s what I
But my point is that with the divorce I had to
love, I have to do this.”
And I did it because I thought it would look cool.
sell the house in Chicago and pay my wife.
But low and behold, it’s actually functional,
At the same time my eldest daughter was in So I started thinking about it, and I have a few because as you know a little larger venting
eighth grade, and Chicago high schools are not very close and trusted friends in the industry allows the bottom head to react quicker to the
what I would call safe and appealing. So I said, who said, “Oh, there’s a lot of smaller boutique snares and gives you crispier, snappier snare
that’s it, we’re moving out of Chicago into the drum companies out there, call around and sounds. So, it improves the sound of the drum,
suburbs and you’re going to high school where see if somebody will work with you and which I wanted to be like the old Supraphonic
I went to high school, which is called Downers make a separate line with your specs under 400. I wanted to make a drum that was a
Grove North. So we moved into a rental your name.” I called about ten different drum workhorse, and that not only could drummers
because we had to be out of there fast, and companies around the nation and didn’t get afford, but that every drummer would grab on
we were unpacking and I’m thinking, okay, now anywhere. I was really let down with that and the way out to the studio, or to the live gig, or
January 2020
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