Comments on China - Why?

It's so wrong, it's right.

I wager Stephen Perkins has one in his arsenal.

The guy from Dave Matthews has like 6 of them.

Neil Peart from Rush plays them religously, being a big time prog rocker back in the day.

The Dave Matthews drummer also has a wide array of cowbells, too - wooden, aluminum, and otherwise. Oh, rows of those chimes you always see drummers graze their drumsticks across during those slow, moody intros.

Can I get a Dave Lombardo?

I am not quite sure who plays them but I would like to hear what they sound like they look pretty awesome

The only reason these are still available is the limited - but nonetheless present - demand created by shitty metal drummers everywhere. I mean,if Vinnie Paul had one, I should probally get one too, right?

i love dio

Eight posts until someone mentioned Dio. I feel proud.

One of my favorite drummers, Billy Martin, sometimes uses one. He's a jazz drummer / percussionist. The china he uses looks to be a 20" or 22". It has a large, cracking hole in it, certainly caused by its prior rocking user(s).

He uses it infrequently as an obvious addition to his minimal kit. You can hear it in the tune Thaw on Medeski, Martin & Wood's album Tonic. Very tastefully and creatively used as a texture, not punctuation.

Billy Cobham(Mahavishnu Orchesrtra, other) used a china cymbal pretty often and he is a f'n monster. However china cymbals are not nearly as cool as roto-toms.

i'll take two and use them as hats. gotta have serious spring in your stand, though. also, after droping Billy Cobham i'm dissapionted in blundt cake's roto-tom aside.

bundt cake probably was being sarcastic.

Cobham r00lz.

Really, if you think about it. It's all about the Dio. Life is circular. It will all come back to Rainbow in the Dark.

Borris Williams from the Cure used them pretty effectively, but they always seemed to sit in a pretty subtle place in the mix.

"Just Like Heaven", anyone?

I saw Bill Bruford use one with Earthworks several years ago. Doesn't the guy in Transpacific have one too? Let's see, Charlie Watts uses one (though he does not mount his upside down,) Terry Bozzio has a million of 'em, when I saw Elvin Jones at Jazz Alley in early '99 he used a swish (non-inverted china w/rivets...I also have one of these,) that's all I can think of besides who's already been mentioned.

I don't know who plays them but at guitarville if you buy 10 pairs of sticks you get a free china symbol.