Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

thomson twins portakit went on ebay auctions a while back nice but i could not think i'd use it so idid'nt bid

spandau ballet used a twin bass white sds v (i assume given the time) for a while

in fact any body young beautiful  and poppy on the uk's top of the pops in the early 80's used a simmons to mime with

& more obscure perhaps

alex van halen of van halen circa 1984-85 on tour with maybe 10 simmons toms well hidden behind  behind ocataban and lots of bass drums soloing on hot for teacher got that on bootleg from my walkman

also the percussion chap with nik kershaw who went on to session with pink floyd - don't know his name but he jumped around a lot and had pads in a huge cage set up but the drummer from nik kershaw went to all about eve and lived not too far from me when i was a kid

gil gilson from squeeze and jools holland had a sdx (which i now have) and a sds7 which was dead when i last saw it and both were giggged live

bill bruford was a big simmons user till pretty recent times ( although i'm sure this has been raised before)


god i miss the 80's

dp


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: retrolust 
  To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 8:39 PM
  Subject: [Simmons Drums] Re: Bands ... ???


  ali score of a flock of seagulls used a killer white on white sdsv 
  kit on tour in 1983 ... i couldn't take my eyes off of it ... new 
  order & the thompson twins used both simmons drums and the simmons 
  portakit ... david robinson of the cars used an sds7 kit on their 
  heartbeat city tour ... the drummer from talk talk used a white 
  simmons kit (just saw their talk talk video) and the drummer from 
  kajagoogoo (shy shy) used a yellow simmons kit ... you don't see too 
  many yellow simmons kits floating around there these days, even on 
  ebay.





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