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GPOYW
Here’s the kit with the late 80’s Ludwig Black & White Badge snare drum I was gifted last week.
New Drumset!
- Late 1970’s Ludwig Stainless Steel Blue and Olive Badge (John Bonham) Kit
- 26x14 Bass Drum
- 13x9 Rack Tom
- 16x16 Floor Tom
- 14x6 Pork Pie Little Squealer Snare (Beech Wood)
cymbals (L to R):
- 14” Zildjian A Custom Mastersound Hi Hats
- 18” Zildjian A Custom Crash
- 21” Zildjian A Sweet Ride
- 20” ZIldjian A Custom Crash
- 16” Zildjian Oriental China Trash
Hardware:
- DW5000 Hi Hat Stand
- Pearl BC900 Cymbal Stands
- Gibraltar Double Bass Pedal
- Meinl Hi Hat Tambourine
- Vater Stick Holder
Over the summer I inherited a 26 inch Ludwig Stainless Steel John Bonham (Blue/Olive Badge) Bass Drum from my uncle. It is huge and badass.
After months of checking ebay every day, I finally found and purchased two matching toms. A 9x13 rack tom and a 16x16 floor tom will be here next Wednesday and I’m super excited to finally own a full matching kit.
And to put the icing on the cake, I did some pro-bono promotional photographs for my friends’ band BREATHING BLUE the other day, and I mentioned buying the drums. Well, it just so happened that they picked up a late 80’s chrome-over-aluminum Ludwig (Black and White Badge) snare drum while they were out on tour, and they gifted it to me. I put some new heads on it, tuned it up, and it sounds pretty beefy. Now my entire set matches and I’m stoked to take it out on tour at the end of February with Pizza Face.
Just finished reading Stephen Davis’ book LZ-‘75 about Led Zeppelin’s 1975 North American Tour.
- The story behind the book is that Davis went on the tour to write an article for The Aquarian, a monthly magazine trying to appeal to a younger crowd. Later, when he was writing his NY Times Best-selling biography about Led Zeppelin, Hammer of the Gods, he thought that the 1975 tour deserved it’s own book. However, he lost the notebooks containing all his notes from the tour, only to re-discover them in 2005 after moving, and finally wrote the book.
- This is the same tour Cameron Crowe would go on, basing his film Almost Famous on his experiences covering Led Zeppelin for Rolling Stone.
- In the above picture of Robert Plant, he stepped out onto the balcony (post-interview with Davis), declaring to Davis “I am a Golden God.” Apparently he did this many times on the tour, with many people.
- This book made me slightly dislike John Bonham. I am a drummer. Part of my drumset is a blue/olive badge stainless steel bass drum, John Bonham signature series from the late 70’s. But Davis writes about how his bandmates referred to him behind his back as “the beast” because of his alcoholism and the violent/agressive state it would leave him in.
The fact that PUFF DADDY, GODZILLA, and LED ZEPPELIN are all legitimate tags for this song/video accounts for a good amount of why I tried to put it on the jukebox at the bar last night.
Tonight my Uncle gave me his old 26x14 stainless steel Ludwig bass drum. It cost him over $600 in the 70’s and is apparently the same drum John Bonham used to play. It is both HUGE and AWESOME, even though it needs some new heads.
never a bad time for this album
