Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

superwolle:
> Hm (... enviously crying rivers ...),

Like me of your SDS-3 then. ;)

> was it a lucky punch or was it
> declared as a "Simmons SDS2"?

Very much so... NOT! Don't remember, but I think he called it Simmons in the 
description since it says Simmons on the unit itself. But as I recall it, a 
lousy picture (if any) and two lines of "info". The PSU was shaken out of 
place and had bounced around inside, but  managed to fix it even with the 
old PSU and there was no other harm done - magically...

> Was it before Ebay broke through the magic barrier of 1000 members?

Oh no, as mention, two years ago approx... I had already bought a lot of 
stuff there and was probably over 100 feedback points myself. But these days 
the gear tend to go more expensive I guess...

> Who was the former owner? Do you know
> anything about its history?

Cannot remember his name, but I think he told me he picked it up at a local 
2nd hand dealer and thought it was nothing special. I have had help from 
this list and google to find out two things;
* Dave Simmons bought one (1!) unit called the SDS-2
* Stephen Morris of Joy Division/New Order used to own one but hated it. ;) 
There are some indications that he sold or dumped it while on a german tour.

That's about it... *piouuuuuw*, *fwonk*

electronically yours, jesper
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