A Shadowy Flight...

Well, I'm bored. Can't find anything remotely news worthy. So, instead of looking at the present, I had a little look back to 1997/98 when Jimmy was racing cars. And thanks to Mark Windecker, here is a picture of said race car, well one of them anyway (apparently he drove a Porsche at some point as well):

White van, schmite van, Billy.  JC rolls in the KNIGHT RIDER CAR

Updated - 29 June 2010

Jimmy Chamberlin Drum Set Up and Downloads

In the absence of any news on THIS, I thought I'd bide my time by adding a couple of new pages to the blog. If you haven't already noticed, just below the title banner you'll now see the new tabs; Jimmy Chamberlin Drum Set Up, Jimmy Chamberlin Downloads and Jimmy Chamberlin Discography. So there.

Anyway, have a good weekend.

Cheers.

Chamberlin in Rush Documentary

An in-depth look at the Canadian rock band Rush, chronicling the band's musical evolution from their progressive rock sound of the '70s to their current heavy rock style.

Amongst others, JC features in this new documentary. Not that surprising really, considering he's good friends with Neil Peart and SP's penchant for Rush covers...

Redemption Song

Non JC news, but the marvellous Red Dead Redemption's soundtrack features one time 'Pumpkins drummer Joey Waronker.

Check it...



See you in Armadillo friend...

Chamberlin's 'Zeitgeist' Kit - Sold

User mekong56 over at the Pearl Drummers Forum reports that, a little while ago, Jimmy Chamberlin unloaded a couple of drum kits, following his move back to Chicago back in 2008, owing to a lack of space. This makes sense following his spilt from BC - I guess it would be a little awkward to share Pumpkin Land 2.0.

Anyway, a couple found their way to The Drum Pad shop, where Jimmy held a clinic last year.

Here are some real nice images of Chamberlin's kit, coutousey of the Kit's new owner Mekong'.

And a few snippets of extra info:

- It is a Maple Absolute Nouveau. He only used it to record rather than tour...

- The second snare is a 13x7 snare (an Akira Jimbo model w/ JC's name on it)

- It is a very light green that Jimmy said he had custom made, to have a 'soothing effect' in the studio - (a colour that Chamberlin picked out at 'Home Depot' and gave to Yamaha to match. )

- There are 4 bass drums, 22x14, 22x16, 24x14 & 24x16

- They store also had Jimmy's 'Jaguar finished' Absolute kit, which he used with Zwan, thus;

- and his Yammy Phoenix Hybrid Shell - Copper finish. (I can't recall seeing him use this, shame on me)

Hopefully some audio samples will follow...