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>> Ken Fredenberg: Hi, I'm Ken Fredenberg, marketing director for Gibraltar Hardware.
Welcome to Gibraltar's extreme hardware makeover.
We're here today at Chad Sexton's Drum City in North Hollywood, California.
And we're going to be working with a drummer to rebuild his hardware set-up.
And you know we're the hardware guys; we do this, that's what Gibraltar's all about.
For over 25 years we've been building hardware.
So what we're going to do, we're going to see what we can do to Gibraltarize his kit.
And make it functional, but yet have a nice vibe for the way he wants to play.
I think we're going to have some fun today.
Let's see where we can take this.
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>> Ken Fredenberg: We're here with Jagger, and welcome.
>> Jagger: Thanks.
Alright.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Hey man, tell me about you know, what you do,
what's your drumming style and everything.
>> Jagger: Well I play drums in a band called Opus Dai,
and it's kind of real loud and heavy side but with melodics too.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Cool.
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>> Ken Fredenberg: Tour a lot?
>> Jagger: A lot of touring, yeah, a lot of shows.
We're on the road, pretty much all the time.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Well I can definitely tell your rigs, you know, have been used a lot.
>> Jagger: Yeah, they've seen some abuse I'm sure.
>> Ken Fredenberg: We're going to have some fun today on this, I really do.
Tell me a little bit about your rack.
>> Jagger: Yeah, well I've been playing on this rack for about maybe 2 years now or so.
And it's starting to show its wear and there's like some things that are some things,
some of the clips are breaking on it.
You can probably see from here, there's like a bend --
this actual whole stand is like starting to bend.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Right.
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>> Ken Fredenberg: Right, right.
Yeah. You've definitely used it a lot, I can see.
You've had kind of make some modifications on your own.
Looks like you've put a lot of extra parts in there.
>> Jagger: Yeah, actually this lower half here is Gibraltar.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Yeah.
>> Jagger: Because the clips that came with it were plastic.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Oh, yeah right, right.
>> Jagger: So you can see I'm still using one of them here, but it actually gave way.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Yeah, yeah.
>> Jagger: And it actually saved me and I've been able
to keep using the rack because of that.
>> Ken Fredenberg: That's cool.
>> Jagger: So it's sort of a Frankenstein, hybrid kind of rack.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Yeah, it looks like you've got everything pretty tight right in there,
so you've got it right where you want it.
But it looks like you've really had to makeshift to get it that way.
So, I see some challenges here as far as the boom and kind of crimping a little bit right?
>> Jagger: Yeah, there's -- it's a lot of dents in it cause I really have to tighten down.
I actually threw some duct tape in here and so I hope it actually fits,
because I don't think the pole really matches the size of this
>> Ken Fredenberg: Right, right.
I imagine with that being a drum key, tying you down, that's kind of a challenge too,
as far as always having to crank that.
>> Jagger: Yeah, like a lot of torque on it, to really get it to hold.
This is my share of MacGyver's stuff.
I've --
>> Ken Fredenberg: Nice.
>> Jagger: Thing that I made here to hold my metronome,
it's pretty much some industrial strength Velcro mounted on a sheet of metal,
mounted on a -- glued down so this cowbell clip.
It's pretty cumbersome to lug around, you know.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Yeah.
>> Jagger: So somebody would grab one on this side, and someone would grab it on that side,
and the rack ends up twisting like this.
And then everything kind of off --
>> Ken Fredenberg: We can take care of that.
There is a thing called Memory Locks that we live by it at Gibraltar
and we take that will make your life a lot easier.
That's kind of why we're working together.
It's right over here, I see you've got a little splash set up right in front
of your toms?
That looks clean.
Again, it's kind of a MacGyver thing.
This is actually a piece right here from a broken boom stand,
and it's just kind of wedged into this clip.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Right, right.
>> Jagger: But it works you know.
>> Ken Fredenberg: It works. It's functional.
Well I think we've got some options here that might kind of make that not dysfunctional,
but actually give you a little bit of vibe on there.
So that's very cool.
Let's kind of head over here; I see some interesting stuff going on here
with some duct tape and what is that?
>> Jagger: Recent modification.
We did a show the other day and this actually came loose from the stand.
I didn't have a lot of time but the venue had butter knives,
so you can see I sort of made a splint.
>> Ken Fredenberg: I knew there had to be a story behind that.
>> Jagger: I got some butter knives from the bar and I made kind of a splint with some gaff tape
to hold it into place to get through the show and I fed on a couple of shows like that,
you can see it's not really the best solution but -- in a pinch.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Hey, it's whatever works man, right?
Alright, then over here we've got a stage I see and the hanging floor tom, and ride,
and china, so that's a pretty easy station.
>> Jagger: Yeah, so it's pretty much a, you know, main hardware is the rack,
with a side stand and you know, the steering stand.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Alright so, everything has to be in place,
but probably the other things we have to keep in mind today is a little bit of image.
We wanna kind of vibe you out a little bit?
>> Jagger: Yeah, yeah, I mean I try to keep some open space for when I'm performing and really
like I prefer to play as low as I can.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Okay.
>> Jagger: So my tom are pretty much as low as they can possible go and a lot
of my cymbals are all on the same plain with the exception of these two in front.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Alright.
>> Jagger: And I put those a little higher then, you know, maybe I would play
at most comfortable level, but mainly for when we play shows to keep
that kind of framing window device.
>> Ken Fredenberg: That's it.
>> Jagger: I try to keep everything symmetrical.
I get 2 crashes on this side and then the 2 up here.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Alright.
>> Jagger: and it's kind of even.
>> Ken Fredenberg: So I see the function, I see that we want to kind
of keep the symmetrical look to it, kind of vibe you out a little bit,
and then make a tour-worthy, right?
>> Jagger: Yeah.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Thats probably the big priority, right?
>> Jagger: The Durability is a huge factor.
>> Ken Fredenberg: Alright, we've got you covered.
So I think now what I'm going to do is bring in my experts, the Gibralo men,
and see what we can do to make it over.
>> Jagger: Awesome.
>> Ken Fredenberg: I think this will be great.
Alright, I'm going to have you go get a cup of coffee
and we're going to go get started, alright?
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