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My favorite inside joke is the Rod Smallwood "DELETE" meme. I'd post the picture but I can't find it...

These ones? They were standard on the Phonic Plus towards the beginning of its run. The photo below is from the 1982 catalog. I have owned at least one standard production Phonic Plus bass drum with these spurs over the years. I don't doubt that Nicko's kit was handmade though, I believe...

Whoops, sorry :facepalm:

Worth noting that they did this so Bruce could actually sing the chorus a full octave higher than Blaze sang it, so even though technically the key of the song was changed it was done for the opposite reason that downtuning is usually done (so the vocalist can sing lower)

Future Past Tour 2024 "LOTB-ified" version (for territories that missed LOTB due to the pandemic) 1. Caught Somewhere In Time 2. Stranger In A Strange Land 3. The Writing On The Wall 4. The Time Machine 5. Senjutsu 6. The Trooper 7. The Clansman 8. Alexander The Great 9. Revelations 10. Sign of...

It must have just been the Ed Force 1 leg where they left it out, presumably due to cargo capacity!

They had the big Eddie for the US dates in 2008

Yeah you can tell he's become a lot more comfortable with playing fast groups of 16th notes especially. I've noticed his 2-hand hi-hat work in Stranger is also a lot stronger now. At this rate, maybe the snare fill in CSIT will be back next year!

He's not hitting the cymbals as hard or consistently as he was pre-stroke. It's really hard to make a soft cymbal hit sound like a harder one just by boosting the overhead mic levels, aside from the fact that that would boost the entire kit, the way cymbals behave means the character of the...

I'm glad they lowered Nicko's drum riser on the tours since then. I'd forgotten how high up he used to be on stage. He's hard enough to see with that wall of square-sized power toms in front of him!

They really were. The TFF 2010 setlist was the last truly adventurous one until LOTB 2018-19, in my opinion. TBOS 2016 came close though.

A Matter of Time (a.k.a. alternate reality Future Past World Tour 2007) 1. Caught Somewhere In Time 2. Stranger In A Strange Land 3. Different World 4. These Colours Don't Run 5. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns 6. Children of the Damned 7. For The Greater Good of God 8. Can I Play With Madness 9...

Love that too-down view! It's perfect for analyzing his sticking and patterns. What I'd give for a full gig version...

It's not quite the same, but I love this vid of him doing Trooper > drum solo > Moonchild at a clinic. Really makes me wish there was more footage of him like this!

I think it has more to do with the fact that most of them are relatively private people and they prefer more low-key interactions with their fans. In numerous interviews, they've talked about how they like having Eddie be the face of the band so they don't need to be in the spotlight as much.

My brain has an innate ability to remember the most pointless minute facts about things I'm interested in. It's a blessing and a curse. Here's a drum show appearance where he talks about the mints (around 11:35)

Pickles? That's news to me. He used to chew gum back in the '80s but it got stuck in his hair too much

Trebor extra strong mints

Tama Rhythm Watch RW200 I believe

Interesting find. Very hard to tell what the finish is due to the lighting and video quality. It's also a significantly smaller kit with the regular catalog power tom sizes. I bet it's a rental from a local backline company- probably pretty expensive to ship "the full Nicko" all the way to Japan!