Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

OK, I have a couple.  

I've been playing with Australia's Pseudo Echo on and off for the 
past 7 years, I've used my red SDS8 and SDS9 pads mostly and as far 
as sounds go have used and SDS8 for the toms and an Alesis D4 for 
kick and snare.

The band actually own a set of black SDS8 pads BUT they're in real 
bad shape so I get the crew to take mine.

In the past few months I've used SDS9 pads (With a couple of Vs) and 
a Yamaha DXTREME IIs so I've been able to sample all of the REAL 
Simmons sounds.

Also, Danny Simcic from Real Life (Send me an Angel) is a mate of 
mine, he went over seas a few years back and stored a lot of stuff 
in my garage which included the actual SDSV pads as in the "Send me 
an Angel" video clip.  He still has them these days but has since 
painted them white, he uses them in his stuodio to lay down tracks.

Cheers,

Matt.



--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, brian walker <brian1075us@...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi
> 
> I have Tommy Steel's SDS3 in its original road case
> with tour details all over it
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
> --- Ralph <ralphdsmith@...> wrote:
> 
> > I purchased a set of SDSVs on eBay from a music
> > store in 
> > Massachusetts, and the seller said the set once
> > belonged to Jon "Sib" 
> > Hashian, drummer for Boston. I haven't tried to
> > verify this, however.
> > 
> > --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Phil Murray"
> > <philmurr@> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > > 
> > > Just out of interest, does anyone own any Simmons
> > kit that has some 
> > > history ?  Maybe originally owned by someone
> > famous ?
> > > 
> > > To start off, of my 3 SDX's, one was Brian
> > Bennett's (The Shadows) 
> > and 
> > > another was Howard Jones'.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else ???
> > > 
> > > Phil.
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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