Famous Drummers and Their Drum Kits
by JuliaA good drummer is discovered in a Rock band. You can discover them in the Jazz world also. There are many bands which had come and gone, taking with them their drummers, but few of them remain in the memories of the people. Drummers like Keith Moon, Jon Bonham are still remembered.So also Neil Pert and Lars Ulrich. They are a wonderful class by themselves. They are different from each other. It is by the style they play Drums. They also use different Drum kits.
Let us begin with Keith Moon. He was born in23rd August 1946 and died on 7th September 1978. He lived a short period of life because of his alcoholism and acute picularity. 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 joined 'The Who' band. He was a speed drummer.He invented many styles of drumming.He composed also. He used to play faster and sound, 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 hobby was to blow up toilets.
Keith Moon did not have any particular Drum Kits. He has no made to order 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 Consequently, 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 amid Led Zeppilin. He was applauded for his 20 minute solo performance on his drumkit.. He was mainly a Rock Drummer and that too a great one. He also died young at the age of 32..
He used three different Ludwig green sparkle instrument in Lee Zeppilin III and IV. Jon's bass drums wre of 24" and 26".His Tom was mounted 12"deep. At times he played in his exposed hands. Jon Bonham had branded drum kits. He played with it.. He had used, other than from the Ludwig sparkle green sparkle, which was his favorite and best sounding kit, The Black Diamond Pearl and Thermo lusture Natural Maple. He also used many other branded drums. He used different category of floor Toms, rack Toms, supraphonic snare and Ludwig Timpani. He played in Paiste Cymbals. Later he changed His choice pedal for Drums Were Ludwig Speed King Pedals.
Neil Pert joined a Toronto based band "RUSH" and classified himself with it.|Neil Pert joined in "RUSH" band. It was in Toronto.}. 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 lyrist for their band. He had a complex but sophisticated style as a Drummer.
His kits always give encouragement to other Drummers. With a large drum kit he often used all the Drums while performing..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.
A Danish-American Drummer known as Lars Ulrich from Metallica, the heavy metal band, origin.| Lars Ulrich was from Metallica band}.
He often 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 used Ludwig drums, Grtsch drums and Sambian Cymbals, Calato Regal drum sticks but changed to Eastern Ahead at a later date.
Other drummers in 1980 of sonar drum reputation were Steve Smith from Journey and Phil Rudd.. Recently Danny Carey of TOOL and Gavin Harrison are some of the names who play sonar drums.