Spaun Blood Spatter Snare

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In yesterday's mail I received the July bad person catalog and in it is a Spaun snare with a finish called "Blood Spatter." I had to read the description twice to be sure I wasn't imagining things. In all of my years playing drums I've never thought "Gee, if only they would make a finish that looked like splattered blood." Who would possibly find this finish appealing other than Dracula? What could possibly top this as an all-time bad finish?
 
I actually kind of like it.. wouldn't buy it, but it's better than a lot of what I've seen. Like, say, clowns.
 
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You have to give it up to Spaun, they or not afraid to think outside the box and they produce some great finishes and excellent drums. I have a Spaun kit and they sound great and record even better. I know there are a lot of folks here that despise the Keller shell custom companies, and there is some validity to some of their points. However, I really like Spaun.
 
You should've seen some of the designs Pat Foley did back in the 80's. I worked at a hardware store in Pasadena, California and he used to come in all the time for supplies. He would bring in individual toms for reference. He was designing a kit for AJ Pero from Twisted Sister to look like galvanized trash cans. Another kit was for Greg Bissonette when he was playing for David Lee Roth. He was trying to simulate bullet holes all over the shells. Pretty ingenious stuff.
 
I saw the Spaun one. GMS actually did an ENTIRE kit in that finish a couple of years back for Brad Roberts (Jizmak Da Gusha) from GWAR.

I can’t post a picture or a link here, because it’s protected, but you can see the kit for yourself if you cruise over to GMS DRUMS, go to the product link on the top left, go to drum kits, then go to the SE Series kits. It’s the 8th kit down.

Personally speaking, as a lifelong horror movie FREAK, I love it. Would I own something like that? No, because it doesn’t match what I do on the drums. I’m not in a band like GWAR, nor am I in a band that has any sort of horror theme to it. But I do love the look of the blood splatter. Someone was thinking outside the box when they came up with that finish. I applaud that.
 
Definitely not my cuppa...

What I find more disturbing though is the cover :-o








That's a joke folks before you start flaming me. :blackknight:
 
Bonzoholic said:
You should've seen some of the designs Pat Foley did back in the 80's. I worked at a hardware store in Pasadena, California and he used to come in all the time for supplies. He would bring in individual toms for reference. He was designing a kit for AJ Pero from Twisted Sister to look like galvanized trash cans. Another kit was for Greg Bissonette when he was playing for David Lee Roth. He was trying to simulate bullet holes all over the shells. Pretty ingenious stuff.
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I remember those kits! Very artistic, much more thought-out than it would first occur to you.

As far as a blood-spattered kit, sounds like Spaun is borrowing from the Goth sub-culture. More corny than frightening at this point...
 
I thought that snare had been around for a few years already? They are just highlighting it now I think. Besides, Tama already did it with their "volcanic red" finish:

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cochlea said:
In yesterday's mail I received the July bad person catalog and in it is a Spaun snare with a finish called "Blood Spatter." I had to read the description twice to be sure I wasn't imagining things. In all of my years playing drums I've never thought "Gee, if only they would make a finish that looked like splattered blood." Who would possibly find this finish appealing other than Dracula? What could possibly top this as an all-time bad finish?
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How about Vomit Ripple? :puke:
 
guess you dont remember the old KISS comic book written w real KISS blood!!!(broken attachment removed)
 
and Joey Joridson's pro-mark sig sticks have his blood in the ink too.

Its all about appeal to a certain mentality.

If your band has a horror imagery thing going... like Slipknot, GWAR why not...?

I've seen worse finishes for sure.
 
It would have been better without the splatter marks on the hardware and batter heads. Kind of looks like an after thought.
 
jbonzo1 said:
cochlea said:
In yesterday's mail I received the July bad person catalog and in it is a Spaun snare with a finish called "Blood Spatter." I had to read the description twice to be sure I wasn't imagining things. In all of my years playing drums I've never thought "Gee, if only they would make a finish that looked like splattered blood." Who would possibly find this finish appealing other than Dracula? What could possibly top this as an all-time bad finish?
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How about Vomit Ripple? :puke:
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That was the runner-up name for citrus mod. But seriously, it's no secret the "psychadelic" finishes were capitalizing off of the 60's hippie and drug culture and I imagine they were radical for the time. And before that Gene Krupa's grandpa probably thought Mardi Gras wrap was for gay communists.

Outrageous finishes are just a way to get attention, for better or for worse. With so much media at everyone's disposal and shock tactics have already gone so far it becomes more difficult to stand out. Marketers are responsible to capture attention and there is a two way flow of how marketing effects culture and vice versa. The fact we're talking about these drums means their idea worked. The blood spatter is certainly vivid on the all white and looks a little too real IMO. It looks like put a lot of effort in figuring out how to get it right.
 
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