Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

They look to be a set of SDS-7's.  I had a set IDENTICAL to these, back
in the mid 80's.

I think I first saw Simmons drums in the Kajagoogoo music video "Too
Shy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6I4pT_tVA
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6I4pT_tVA> .  It was probably about
late 1984. I somehow found out that the New Zealand agent was Paul
(Emlyn) Crowther, a former member of Split Enz (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emlyn_Crowther
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emlyn_Crowther> ).

I happened to be going to Auckland, so went and visited him, and he
demonstrated both the SDS-9 and SDS-7 to me.  I asked him how much they
were, and he said: "I suppose you'll want wholesale?" to which I
answered "YES!".  I remember I paid NZ$1,995 for a set of yellow SDS7's,
complete with Pearl hardware. I still vividly remember the day they
arrived.  I used the drums mainly at Church, but in a smaller setting
they were difficult to control the volume in relation to other
musicians.  I never used the factory settings, preferring my own sound. 
I made my own overlay templates for my own sounds. At one stage, I hired
them to a local pub band "The Big Race" for a period.

Sadly, I sold them for $1,100 back in the early 90's.  I must try and
track them down - they were totally awesome.

Cheers,  Gwyn


--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Strellis"
<synthasy2000@...> wrote:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap78YXAcEY8
>
> Zany British humour with a special prop ;)
>
> Cheers
>
> Chris
>
> http://www.strellis.com
> http://www.myspace.com/strellismusic
>




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