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Subject: Re: Betr: Re: [Simmons Drums] bloody absurd

From: Patrice Jacquot <Jacquot.Patrice@...>
Date: 2010-02-23

absolutely...

yes I agree, ...the SOUND kicks & that's why we're here ;-)
but not all spotty teenagers know that for the moment...
the day they will, then the market will really explose ...& not
virtually...


I profit to apology about english lanquage mistakes I made (&
make ...) ...

Anyway ...


Le 23 févr. 10 à 16:38, jesper a écrit :

> Patrice Jacquot skrev:
>> But what everybody is forgetting , it's the maintenance it will need
>> very soon ... All that valuable SSM or CEM are probably closer to
>> their death than ever.
>> The Eproms as well ... the capacitors all need to be changed 20 years
>> later...
>
> I have hopes of CEM's and SSM's getting re-made just like so many
> other
> odd parts of the past. Also, I have synths which are a decade or so
> older (minimoog, odyssey, SEM etc) and they have all needed very
> little
> fixing this far.
>
> All old things fail sooner or later and yes, you need to have cash or
> skills or both to fix it, but it can be done.
>
> Also, the _SOUND_ still kicks every Alesis, Yamaha and Roland butt out
> there.
>
> :D
>
> BTW, of all my Simmons gear it's most likely so that the "fragile"
> SDS-7
> is the one which has seen most gigs, having toured with Ultravox.
> Maybe
> a "tuesday-copy"? ;)
>
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> electronically yours, jesper
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