Not strange at all, considering this is a picture of the 08 tenor line. =]

Yeah, i just thought that they would still be using the 2007 version

It's entirely possible that they could. The only difference would be that there wouldn't be any pitch changes for the spock notes. You never know.

Yeah, it does. But apparently Latin Lover got retired last year..?

I'm not saying anything about the 8" just yet, I'm sure they have their reasons for doing it. But yeah, I'm not a fan of the look.

Didn't 06 latin lover ues only 5 drums? Atleast thats what I thought. Latin lover in 06 was better in my book anyway.

Going by the music, both versions used 6 drums. Sometimes I like '07 better, and sometimes I just really miss '06.

Latin lover uses 6 drums, and the reason they went to one spock that is an 8" is because of the show theme. IT sounds more like a taiko in pitch and duration than a spock. Any major shots can be put on snare pings anyways.

-Justin

As much as I am a fan of Latin Lover, they could either:
a) have a new warm-up written for them

or

b) have an 08 version of the Lover which only utilizes 5 drums.

Either way, odds are that the 8" spock is for the show theme, as Justin said above me. It isn't so much about the looks. It's about the music. If it sounds awesome, I don't care how it looks.

I talked to Bob Cizmarik about their using the 8's at Bushwackers, he said Dan DeLong had written a lot of notes on the spock which weren't projecting well enough, so they decided to switch to the 8" to get that voicing on the quads to carry up into the stands more effectively. Maybe there's a similar thought process going on at Cavaliers, who knows.

One cool side effect, the cavies book and exercises that come out next year will be written for 5-drum toms instead - nice for tenor players in bands that only have 5s . =D