Blunted Beats

Let us start with Keith Moon. Keith Moon was born in 1946. He died in 1978 He lived a short period of life because of his alcoholism and acute odd behaviour. But even today he is the famous Keith Moon.. Some of his followers also named him as ‘Mad Moon’. He was a powerful drummer. He was innovative. 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 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 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. Therefore he never stuck to any standardized kit.

Jon Henry Bonham was the drummer of Led Zeppilin. He was applauded for his 20 minute solo performance on his drumkit.~He played a 20 minute solo that made him famous} He was chiefly a Rock Drummer and that too a dominant one. He also died young at the age of 32..

He played three different Ludwig green sparkle set 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 has used different types of branded Drum Kits.. 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 gloss 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 favorite pedal for Drums Were Ludwig Speed King Pedals.

Neil Peart from a Toronto based band called “RUSH”~Neil Peart from RUSH}. He was basically encouraged by Drummers like Keith Moon and Jon Bonham. He invented new style. He combined Jazz with swing. Pert was a Drummer and like Moon was also a lyrist 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 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.

Danish-American Drummer Lars Ulrich from Metallica, the heavy metal 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.

Steve Smith and Phil Rudd played wit sonar drums. In recent times Danny Carey of TOOL and Gavin Harrison are some of the names who play sonar drums.

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