This is the set Charlie Watts bought, he got a Sonny set from Steve Maxwell in New York so it must have been this set?......with a curved kind of Gibraltar rack on the 26" bass drum....
with the Gibraltar one pipe ....over bass drum deal..........going on. I dont know how big Charlie Watts...
Im not talking drummers...........their were grate drummers and grate bass players across time...Im talking the combined music of Big Bands in a period in the past..... reached a larger group of people with better quality of music.....check the birth date on these drummers.....I like Virgil...
The Waybest drums appear to be in every different size produced by George’s company and the bass drum is covered in a mirrorball effect. Incidentally, there’s a great picture of Steve Smith playing one of Sonny’s later Leedy sets on the Internet.
One of the earlier sets has a bass drum with an...
That's not relevant.....that's happen since radio......from that time to now.......a different Doggie In The
Window covers the world right now.....that's 10000x worst. Coming out of that "Master Musician period" was the birth of modern drum construction......John Coltrane, Dizzy....Buddy Rich...
Id say the intellect and the music magic in the air then with the grates during that time is surpassing what
is happen now by miles and the next magic music event was when Hendrix appeared....then Jaco.....
Sonny Greer was born in like 1895 or so and he came up with that setup with double gongs coming out of the 1800's...to blaze with the Duke.....and all the grates....thats some bad ass stuff............
"Chico Hamilton once said in an interview: “I go back to when I was 8 years old, [1929] and...
If someone had made the leap and mounted toms on the "Gigster Console kit" at that time tom mounts sucked ....we would have anti-gravity racks and anti- gravity drum riser by now....they were close...so close...
You're right thought it was Sonny in the band............
"In 1935 Savoy manager Charlie Buchanan called upon Webb to find a popular singer to boost the commercial potential of his group. Though Webb had featured several singers, including handsome balladeer Charles Linton, Buchanan pressured...
I think Chick Webb was Buddy Rich'es fav........drum. Chick played with Duke Ellington. I think Sonny found
Ella Fitzgerald...at some young age....If you were with the Duke you were the best....but....Sonny Greer played with
the Duke with a massive drum set......at one time. For 1934 that's a...
Sonny Greer
I have seen other pictures cant find......he is using a custom orchestra rack over the drums.....with Cab Calloway orchestra
at 3:58 on the youtube clip I dont know anyone that had a set up like Sonny Greer in 1934 !!!
TAMA and be able to sleep at night that you did not screw up and lose your mojo ......they made a 6.5
Tama Solid Brass Snare Drum, 10 Lugs, Japan Made, 1980s,
Friend bought a Harbor Freight buffer 69.00...Going to have to take the Bass drum hooks off and
buff them now with the mothers.................now....it did so well....One side I put in water vinegar and
its almost their now....will buffer to finish off.....but the water and vinegar took most...
I waxed and cleaned a TAMA SuperStar Natural Super Maple Bass Drum ....It looked good but not all the way their, it was the
Bass drum head the aluminum rim part of the Bass head has tarnished and looked like crap. Tried cleaning, no go. Had some
Mothers paste metal buffing cream....I put the...
Wow...that's so not deep.....who ever is invested in this does not have a clue about the
music biz and corruption and TB being a prime example......totally clueless...to the point.
I dont....its TB connection to a corrupt Hollywood system......and anyone thinking its anything else....is day
dreaming about winning the free drum set....and dating a kardashian.....while " getting
hot flashes over this" is quite profound..............anyone invested in this is in to...
You cant....due to the level of the Hollywood sham games.....and one fact is the "con-game with the kardashian Press Production company".....mixed in with TB...any post that is the answer, as others try to mix reality into non-reality
with the kardashian Press Production company....and drums.
Wow
Wow....UptownShakedown....got it right, with out crying about it..............and nailed just the facts.....except the
off the rail con-game with the kardashian Press company....that's OK....