Famous Drummers and Their Drum Kits

By: Julia Aidan

Rock world or the jazz world is an exclusive place to find a good drummer. There are many pop group 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 excellent 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 eccentricity. 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 very fast drummer, a singer and also a composer. He used to play faster and noisy, but with authority. He used fire crackers. He used them on the stage. He was so odd that he has broken many drums and perhaps his past time 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 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. Therefore he never stuck to any standardized kit.

Jon Henry Bonham was in the company of Led Zeppilin. He was applauded for his 20 minute solo performance on his drumkit.. He was basically a Rock Drummer and that too a great one. He died at 32 years.

He used three different Ludwig green sparkle instrument 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, other than from the Ludwig sparkle green sparkle, which was his choice and best sounding kit, The Black Diamond Pearl and Thermo lusture Natural Maple. He also used many other branded drums. He used different types 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 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 style. It was sophisticated 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 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 altered to Eastern Ahead at a later date.

Other drummers in 1980 of Sonor drum reputation were Steve Smith from Journey and Phil Rudd.. In recent times Danny Carey of TOOL and Gavin Harrison are some of the names who play Sonor drums.

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