Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Honestly: The seller of the SDS3 just told me he wanted to give it to
the bulk garbage. So this was in fact a last-minute deal

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, <jesper@e...> wrote:
> 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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