This Friday Flashback dates from early 2006. This jungle/hip-hop/dj-drummer style kit features a 10″x6″ Hybrid Snare Drum, Lime Acrylic 12″ snare, 10″ and 14″ toms, 18″x18″ bass drum and matching woofer. Custom features included all brass hardware, 50% offset lugs, Gauger Alloy RIMS mounts, matching woofer, brass-wrapped bass hoops, and Dunnett R-Class strainers. A real head turner in the clubs, check it out:
This Friday Flashback is a Phattie maple kit featuring a deep red/modern mahogany type satin stain with Gunmetal Gray powder coated hardware, similar to the Gretsch Broadkaster hardware finish. The sizes included 8″, 10″, 12″, 14″, and 16″ suspended toms, a 14″x4″ snare, and a 20″ bass and woofer combo. This combination of sizes and woofer allowed for many setup possibilities, from the full rock kit to a little coffee-house style portable setup, check it out:
Today’s Friday Flashback is from early 2003, best I can recall. Phattie kit in Blue Glass Glitter with Adonis lugs, and white powder coating all around. The sizes were (or were close to) 10″x7″, 12″x8″, 14″x12″, 16″x14″ and a thumping 20″x20″ bass. The blue & white combo is sharp looking, and you could never go wrong with Adonis lugs, check it out:
Today’s Friday Flashback dates from around the middle of 2003. This 12″x8″, 16″x16″, and 20″x14″ set of Phatties was finished in a custom Duco style sparkle lacquer and outfitted with Slingerland style lugs and Stick Saver hoops, for a classy old-school vibe all around. The finish was a compliment to the blue & silver sparkle lacquer duco style kit we built that was being used as the U.S. backline kit at the time. As soon as this kit was done, it started life as their permanent backline kit in Japan, and is still being used. There are some great clips of Jeffrey Clemens wailing on this in the DVD A Year and a Night with G. Love and Special Sauce. Check it out:
The other afternoon I was looking for a file, and came across a folder of some really early cocktail drum builds. Most of these are from 2000 and 2001, when things were just starting to take off. You can see how the cocktail drums have evolved, and what they have become by checking out CocktailDrumsets.com for the latest and greatest. Here’s your old-school Friday Flashback, check it out…
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