Famous Drummers and Their Drum Kits

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, Neil Pert, Lars Ulrich and few others are still idolized by their fans. 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 begin 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. He is still famous. Some of his followers also named him as 'Mad Moon'. He was renowned for his innovativeness and was a dramatic drummer. In 1964 Keith joined '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 explosives and fireworks in his stage shows.. 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 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 played a solo. He became more famous. He was basically a Rock Drummer and that too a great one. He died at 32 years.

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, apart 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 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 lyrist for their band. He had a complex style. It was sophisticated
His kits always give motivation 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 chimes.

A Danish-American Drummer known as Lars Ulrich from Metallica, the heavy metal band, origin.| Lars Ulrich was from Metallica band}.
He often 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 sonar drum reputation were Steve Smith from Journey and Phil Rudd.. Recently Danny Carey of TOOL and Gavin Harrison are few of the names who play sonar drums.