by Berimbau » Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:52 pm
JC is right as usual. The tumbadoras being manufactured today are inferior in every way. These drums are being made far from their Caribbean source by non-Latinos and then marketed to non-Latino players who are COMPLETELY IGNORANT of our venerable Cuban traditions.
In the nightmare world of Bush's Amerikkka, an unbridled and insidious hyper-captialism has produced a cultural hegemony that has erroded all that is intellectual, aesthetic, or of any real lasting quality! From the same lawyers and marketing reps that turned popular culture into one big automobile ad a decade ago, we now have the crappy comfort curve hardware, inferior mis-sized drum shells, and drum heads that are a sad joke at best! This is what happens when you put IDIOTS in charge! Now I DO happen to be an unashamed capitalist myself, and I wonder why these major drum companies don't snap up some talented Old School guys like JC and I to help redesign their tubs more in the Gonzalo Vergaro tradition? No offense to any of you church musicians out there breaking those cheap CP conga heads with the fat drum sticks that you smack them with every Sunday morning, but all of these companies should be manufacturing their conga drums to OUR specifications! Afterall, we actually KNOW what were doing!! You're going to buy our congas anyway, because apparently you wouldn't know the difference! JC we can make them RIGHT HERE in the good old U.S.A.!! We can offer COMPLETE health insurance to ALL our workers, and insist on at least two company-paid rum breaks every day! I nominate David Penalosa as our information officer! Isn't it time for our first rum break?
Saludos,
Berimbau :laugh:
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