Last week at Pop Project practice, Adam Kempa (PP drummer, Recital bassist and SubSprawl’s original stepdad) realized that he’d left his hi-hat in Lansing at Mac’s Bar.

This meant that instead of having something that looked like this:

He had this:

Being a man of creative solutions, he took to the task of creating a makeshift hi-hat stand while we stood around and egged him on / took pictures of him.  The results:

Solution #1:

After a few bars of music, this contraption fell apart and was decidedly a FAILURE.  No fear; Adam quickly assembled solution #2.

Amazingly this worked.  The trial and error process took about five minutes, and we were able to practice for the next few hours without issue.  You’ll never see this makeshift hi-hat at a live show though, because Adam tracked down his real hi-hat, still waiting for him at Mac’s Bar. 

Way to go, nerd!