Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Gwyn Clarke skrev:
> I had an SDS8 set back in the 80's, bright yellow, and they were truly 
> awesome.  Whilst I understand they were inferior to the rest of the 
> Simmons range in that they were analogue, 

You mean _superior_! :D

> Of course the SDS8 pads just had a flat back, whereas I reckon that the 
> SDS7/SDS9 3-dimensional shape looked much better. 

The next thing you got wrong... ;) But I guess it's a matter of taste. I 
love the mk 1's.

> I can understand why that guy's asking the price he is: cos he's the 
> original owner, so is emotionally attached to them. They look to be in 
> good condition, but the market will decide what they are really worth.

Very good point. And... it's a full, working setup too. Sold, one by 
one, it could fetch a good price still though this is rediculous. There 
was a music store in Stockholm who wanted 800 euros for a standard SDS-8 
set, and it sold...

> I truly cannot believe why someone is not making them in their original 
> form, but with today's electronics.  And not the Guitar Center type, 
> either. As in, hexagonal, with the rubber or similar modern surfaces; 
> and modernised selection of all the sound parameters, etc.

I think/know that part of the problems are patents and rights to the 
name. But who knows what the future might bring?

> You guys that are trying to build 'clones' from scratch are legends 
> too.  bring back the 80's!!!

That's the spirit! And you call analogue inferior... ;)

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electronically yours, jesper

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