Famous Drummers and Their Drum Kits - By: Jamie Hanson

A good drummer is discovered in a Rock band. You can discover them in the Jazz world also. There are many pop group which had come and gone, taking with them their play the drums, 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 superb 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 start with Keith Moon. He was born in23rd August 1946 and died on 7th September 1978. He lived a short span of life because of his alcoholism and acute odd behaviour. He is still famous. Some of his fans also named him as 'Mad Moon'. He was renowned for his innovativeness and was a dramatic drummer. In 1964 Keith connected 'The Who' band. He was a speed drummer.He invented many styles of drumming.He composed also. He used to play faster and noisy, but with authority. He used fire crackers. He used them on the stage. He was so peculiar that he has broken many drums and perhaps his hobby 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 therefore, 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 was chiefly a Rock Drummer and that too a powerful one. He also died young at the age of 32..

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 bare hands. Jon Bonham has used different types of branded Drum Kits.. He had used, other than from the Ludwig sparkle green sparkle, which was his preferred and best sounding kit, The Black Diamond Pearl and Thermo polish Natural Maple. He also used many other branded drums. He used different brand of floor Toms, rack Toms, supraphonic snare and Ludwig Timpani. He played in Paiste Cymbals. Later he changed His favorite 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 motivated 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 inspiration to other Drummers. He had a large drum kit. He played with all the drums.The drum kit he normally 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 regularly 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.

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