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You guys got me on this one. I jokingly said about 10 years ago that concert toms would be the next “thing”.
Joey Waronker has a couple of kits with concert toms we made. His core kit for the Roger Waters tour was a 5pc 6ply maple with 6 ply rings. One thing many people don’t know about Joey is how good his ear really is. We were trying to make drums that would cover the different eras of Floyd music along with Rogers solo work. Jake remembers probably better than I do. I remember we built 2 sets of concert toms in two different ply thickness. Initially I thought, “what does it matter?” But it actually did matter. Both same size and depth. But the sound was different. I had obtained a set of raw beech shells from Rob Birenbaum, founder of HQ percussion many years ago. They were added to the kit. So if memory serves me correctly there were 8 concert toms. On both sides of the 5pc doubleheaded 6&6 kit. Shipped him the drums in LA. He and his tech sat at his storage space with a stereo tuning the drums to match the sounds of the record.
As fate would have it the Waters tour started in KC. I relearned a valuable lesson. Don’t assume. They made a great difference in the sound of the drums in the music. If I remember correctly they were ran through an analogy board at FOH. Although I was 61. I felt 16 again. He and his tech did a fabulous job making them sound right. And Joey stayed true to the drum parts. It was one night when concert toms were a thing of beauty.
Joey Waronker has a couple of kits with concert toms we made. His core kit for the Roger Waters tour was a 5pc 6ply maple with 6 ply rings. One thing many people don’t know about Joey is how good his ear really is. We were trying to make drums that would cover the different eras of Floyd music along with Rogers solo work. Jake remembers probably better than I do. I remember we built 2 sets of concert toms in two different ply thickness. Initially I thought, “what does it matter?” But it actually did matter. Both same size and depth. But the sound was different. I had obtained a set of raw beech shells from Rob Birenbaum, founder of HQ percussion many years ago. They were added to the kit. So if memory serves me correctly there were 8 concert toms. On both sides of the 5pc doubleheaded 6&6 kit. Shipped him the drums in LA. He and his tech sat at his storage space with a stereo tuning the drums to match the sounds of the record.
As fate would have it the Waters tour started in KC. I relearned a valuable lesson. Don’t assume. They made a great difference in the sound of the drums in the music. If I remember correctly they were ran through an analogy board at FOH. Although I was 61. I felt 16 again. He and his tech did a fabulous job making them sound right. And Joey stayed true to the drum parts. It was one night when concert toms were a thing of beauty.
