Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

and with some comments as a facebook album
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=17840&id=100000474460916&l=b32c1ea676

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "superwolle70" <superwolle70@...> wrote:
>
> Some "Pre-impressions":
> http://www.simmonsmuseum.com/?area=stalbans
> 
> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, jesper <jesper@> wrote:
> >
> > Crazy man (in a loving way!) - you sure deserve that coffee! :D
> > 
> > -- 
> > electronically yours, jesper
> > 
> > - -- --- ---- ----- ---- --- -- -
> > www.electronic-obsession.se
> > 
> > 
> > superwolle70 skrev:
> > > I just woke up....
> > > Yes, I went to London and St. Albans within a 24 hour trip (actually 20 
> > > hours drivin/ferry, 2 hours London and 2 hours St. Albans). I was lucky 
> > > to win a UK auction of Trevor Horn's Musicaid SDSV pads (a real studio 
> > > bitch kit) and a prototype pad made of solid wood. It weighs a ton. I 
> > > assume it is a prototype which they made for the SDSV catalogue, but I 
> > > need to prove this first.
> > > 
> > > But the coolest part of the auction: A hex-shaped Musicaid cardboard-box 
> > > with the Musicaid logo printed on it. What a devotional thing! ;-)
> > > 
> > > And I was wrong: The Homebase store is not the former facility in Alban 
> > > Park. The correct one is not pictured very well on Google Street View:
> > > 
> > > http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=st+albans+alban+park+hatfield+road+AL4+0JH&sll=51.748973,-0.346669&sspn=0.002318,0.004705&ie=UTF8&hq=st+albans+alban+park&hnear=Hatfield+Rd,+St+Albans,+AL4,+UK&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.750984,-0.281792&panoid=dBUwTGSx2GWiDPBxTNuqHw&cbp=12,108.92,,0,2.23&ll=51.751097,-0.281773&spn=0,0.001176&z=20 
> > > <http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=de&geocode=&q=st+albans+alban+park+hatfield+road+AL4+0JH&sll=51.748973,-0.346669&sspn=0.002318,0.004705&ie=UTF8&hq=st+albans+alban+park&hnear=Hatfield+Rd,+St+Albans,+AL4,+UK&t=h&layer=c&cbll=51.750984,-0.281792&panoid=dBUwTGSx2GWiDPBxTNuqHw&cbp=12,108.92,,0,2.23&ll=51.751097,-0.281773&spn=0,0.001176&z=20>
> > > 
> > > You can see it behind the Volkswagen dealer. I will provide some pics 
> > > soon. It is inhabited by a companay called "Best Import ltd." 
> > > http://www.bestimports.co.uk/pages/contact.shtml 
> > > <http://www.bestimports.co.uk/pages/contact.shtml>
> > > 
> > > However, enough content for a couple of future blog posting. What a day. 
> > > I need a coffee...
> >
>