Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Yes and Yes. 
I asked him if he could give me a brief history and this was his reply for those interested:
I bought a 7 piece Simmons kit with hardware and a SDSV brain in 1983. $3500.
This was the 15th made. I went to the factory in Calabassis, California.
I then joined Nina Hagen's band for some Germany dates.
Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers had been in Fear with me and he knew Nina.
I stayed for several months in Berlin while we toured all around Germany.
Average audience size, 10 thousand.
After I got back in '84 I started playing Fear shows with the same kit so I could compete with two Marshall stacks and an Ampeg SVT bass rig.
I used to rent my own SVT for a monitor.
I used it on the second Fear album and the US tour that followed. (More Beer_1986)
I thought it would bring me some session work but when I finally got a call for it on a paying session they didn't even want me to play.
I hope that helps.

Tim aka Spit Stix


There you have it !
- Roland
http://www.myspace.com/roland_brenner
PS - Thanks for the video link Wolfgang ! I initially scoured the internet and couldn't find anything.
 
He apparently lives in Portland, Oregon now. Me too!

http://www.sol-i.tv/TLeitch.html

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "superwolle70" 
<superwolle70@...> wrote:
>
> Here you are. His real name is Tim Leitch
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFXhSOnMO64
> 
> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "rolandbrenner@"
> <rolandbrenner@> wrote:
> >
> > Kind of funny, the black/white head SDSV kit I have came from one 
of
> her tours. I bought them from Spit Stix. If anyone by chance happens
> to have pictures or videos of that tour, I'd love to see them.
> > 
> > 
> > - Roland
> > http://www.myspace.com/roland_brenner
> > __________________________________________________________
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