BTW, the snare probably has the option of being mounted to the BD and explains the BD mounts the way they are. That was shown in Cat. ads.

If you look at the kit next to the kit in your center photo, you can see the slant badge after the tom mount. Probably his kit too and a bigger kit with double BD broken up they way he wants it !i

Would'nt the 20,12,13,16 be a Londoner set? It's hard to tell since everything is set up so odd!

Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but Micky Dolenz could maybe be contacted and asked. He has a web site, twitter and facebook page, and seems fairly accessible. Just Google his name, I just did.

Ah, 'The Monkees'... The 'Three Stooges' with an extra actor and musical instruments. Although, I'm not sure the 'Stooges' would have ever released 'Head', the movie.

I've heard the story about the concert with Jimi Hendrix opening for them a number of times. I'm not really sure if it happened, or if it's just a persistent urban legend. The way marketing folks worked back then though, I'd bet it happened.

A couple thousand screaming twelve to fourteen year old teeny bopper's waiting to see Davy Jones croon about Sunday's in a Pleasant Valley... only to be greeted by 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience'; power chords, feedback and real musicians.

Not to say the folks that made up 'The Monkees' weren't musicians in their own right. A couple of them really were. But comparing 'The Monkees' to 'The Experience'... well, that's like comparing monkeys to Michelangelo.

Just Googled 'Monkees and Hendrix'... yep, that happened in 1967.

Wow...

Lets not forget about Jimi "making love" Kiss to his guitar in front of all the young girls and boys in the crowd......and mothers covering their kids eyes....

So how we goanna tell monkeyfan that we can tell what Micky`s got but not what he bought ? Unless we looked at the slip !i

There was no 'kit' like that offered by Rogers. It looks like a collection of singles, but it may have started out as a 'Londoner' model. A Londoner had the bass, two small toms on top, a floor tom and a snare.

What you see in the photo is just the snare, a bass, and 2 small toms on a stand. A very unusual layout for a drummer, not close to anything in any Rogers catalog.

Micky was not a natural drummer. He had to learn how to play basic beats and finally became fairly proficient. He will play a few songs on shows but always has a regular drummer. Davy was one of my best friends and musical compadres, he told me he was amazed by Hendrix and was trying to help Jimi Hendrix get a wider audience in America. In conversations with Davy about it Davy didn't realize how frustrating it would be for Hendrix and how he was going to be received. Davy was embarrassed about how the girls were screaming for him while Hendrix was trying to perform. Davy said Hendrix was a really nice guy. I am sure if Micky was contacted and knew that guys on the forum were interested in his sets and all he would gladly respond. I heard he left the original Gretsch set in his home in Los Angeles when he moved and it was gone when he went back to get it. Also if Davy was still alive I could ask him about some things. He might have had some of the stuff because he had that original bass Peter played and a lot of the band instruments from the show in his farm house in Penn. he was in the process of turning this old church there into a museum and recording studio. I know Micky 's keyboard player and maybe can ask him to get him to sign on here. I can tell you one thing though. Davy was one of the best and most talented singers and entertainers I have ever seen or worked with. The guy was great. He always said to me I'm not a singer I am a entertainer. But the guy could sing too. I think better in his last years than ever.

HA! I saw Hendrix in Berkeley in 1970... Man was that a gig. Mr. Mitchell was amazing. Oh, yeah... Jimi wasn't bad either! :)

My regret is that I never did get to see Noel Redding. Mr. Cox was nothing to sneeze at though. He was great as well.

My after gig shenanigans were supposedly memorable as well, so I was told.

I hereby tell Dennis Wilson taught Micky how to play which is ironic cuz they both had a very unique style.