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Wishing for some drums lately. First real drumset was in 8th grade, $100, I paid half, my mom paid the other. She could see that I desperately wanted to play - I'd made a set out of plastic ice cream buckets, pan lids, and the finishing touch was the metal top from a coffee-can with copper rivets installed around the edges. I'd spend hours in my room playing this makeshift set along with the radio. So it was quite exciting to finally get a 'real' set of drums, comprised of two drum sets really, two slightly different shades of blue sparkle. Two bass drums. And I spent countless hours playing along with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, like any self-respecting kid playing drums at the time.