as I found out last night.
I figured I would share this story, so that others don't fall to the same crappy fate I am in.
So I have people over normally 2 or 3 times a month (we throw some good parties, but we are good friends with all the people we invite over), and we bust out Rock Band 2.
Well people love playing the drums, and with no fail mode, they can really just mess around and not have to worry about failing.
Well one guy I have known for years normally plays drums most of the time, and me, personally, I usually don't use the drums that much.
Last night when it was only me and my roommate left around, I decided to bust out some drums. I went for a special using one of my cymbal (I got the triple cymbal set), and the special was not working. After messing with just that cymbal, I realize that the cymbal is done dealing. It is finished, busted, habius corpus.
Now, at first, I assumed, "Hey, it is possible that it just went out on its own". I don't know why, but I decided to run my hand against one of the drum pads, and the pads were hit so f'ing hard, that the main pads (not the cymbals) were dented in, and dented in bad. Keep in mind that I own and played the hell out of the rock band 1 drums, and never had this kind of denting in it.
Basically, since even though the drums are dented, they work, so I am not charging my buddy for new drums, but he now gets to buy me a cymbal for busting mine up.
The moral of the story: rock band peripherals are not real instruments, and should be treated as such.