Famous Drummers and Their Kits
May 5th, 2010
Let us start with Keith Moon. Keith Moon was born in 1946. He died in 1978 He lived a short span of life because of his alcoholism and acute eccentricity. He is still famous. Some of his followers also named him as ‘Mad Moon’. He was a powerful drummer. He was innovative. In 1964 Keith connected‘The Who’ band. He was a very fast drummer, a singer and also a composer.. He used to play faster and louder, but with authority. He used explosives and fireworks in his stage shows.. He was so eccentric that he has broken many drums and perhaps his past time was to blow up toilets.
He did not own drum kits. He has no customized Kits as many other drummers had or have. He either borrowed or hired drum kits to play.He borrowed drum sets to play.He also hired them As a result, he had played with Rogers drum kit, Premier kit, Trixon kit, Lee Kings kit, Dave Clarke Five kit, Singerland kit, Ludwig kit and also Vistalities from Ludwig. He had no standard Drums kit
Jon Henry Bonham was with Led Zeppilin. He was applauded for his 20 minute solo performance on his drumkit.~He played a 20 minute solo that made him famous} He was mainly a Rock Drummer and that too a powerful one. He died when he was 32 years old.
He used three different Ludwig green sparkle set in Lee Zeppilin III and IV. Jon Bonham used 24” and 26” bass drums and his mounted Tom was 12” deep.. At times he played in his exposed hands. Jon Bonham had branded drum kits. He played with it.. He had used, apart from the Ludwig sparkle green sparkle, which was his choice and best sounding kit, The Black Diamond Pearl and Thermo polish Natural Maple. He also used Ludwig Amber Versatile, Sparkle Silver Finish and Stainless Steel.. He used different category of floor Toms, rack Toms, supraphonic snare and Ludwig Timpani. He started using Paiste 2002 series Cymbals and earlier he was using the Paiste Giant Beat Cymbals.His favorite pedal for Drums Were Ludwig Speed King Pedals.
Neil Peart from a Toronto based band called “RUSH”~Neil Peart from RUSH}. He was basically inspired by Drummers like Keith Moon and Jon Bonham. He was an innovative type of Drum player who found a new style combining Jazz with Swing components.. Pert was a Drummer and like Moon was also a composer of song for their band. He had a complex but sophisticated style as a Drummer.
His kits always give encouragement to other Drummers. He had a large drum kit. He played with all the drums.The drum kit he generally used was The Old Singerland Snare, Remo ‘Legato’ marching Snare, a 13” Ludwig Picolo on the back kit, Tama Gong Bass Drum, Promark drum sticks, Rem heads, LP Cowbells and some wind bells.
Lars Ulrich from Metallica. He generally used Tama drums, Zildjian Cymbals and Remo drum heads. He is seldom seen without his customized kits.~He never played without his own drums}. He also played with Ludwig drums, Grtsch drums and Sambian Cymbals, Calato Regal drum sticks but changed to Eastern Ahead at a later date.
Steve Smith and Phil Rudd played wit sonar drums. Recently Danny Carey of TOOL and Gavin Harrison are some of the names who play sonar drums.
Drum Kits and Cymbals provide a good range of Drum Sets with Cymbals
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