That is really cool, and beautiful kit to boot. Good luck to you!

Thanks so much guys for the advice, encouragement and most of all for appreciating this piece of history as much as I do! I hope I will find out at least a couple of tunes that were played on this kit by the time all of this is done. I'll keep you all posted.

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Yes, call Steve ASAP. He's going to love this one.

-Tim

So upon glancing around for about ten minutes, I couldn't find any pictures. However I stumbled upon this guy. He chimes in on this thread about half way down the page about drumkits at motown.

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/drums/865404-motown-drums-bob-marley-drums.html

Then, a quick search on him showed his website with all these credentials.

http://www.audiomastery.com/singles.php

Sounds to me like he would most likely know if your kit was there or not.

Good Luck

Jason

According to Funk Brothers drummer Uriel Jones,...Hitsville had a rule about leaving drums in the snake pit. The risk was that Benny would pawn them overnight.

But in the mid sixty`s, they bought a drum kit used and made of different brands, he said they were good drums too. eventually the bought a second kit and stored the first kit for when it called for two drummers. the second and larger kit was also a put together kit of mismatched drums.

This could be the first kit of good drums made by different brands, a bD + tom with some Ludwig parts.

Pistol and ureil and Benny were there all the time.

I forget where I read this article but it was drummer related.

Cool thanks Eminent for the tip I'll check out that guy! Also, Oddball thats very interesting because with this kit I also got a 13" white slingerland drum vintage early '60's that I sold :-( I heard that they liked to put up two 13" toms sometimes without a floor tom just to get a different sound. That Slingerland drum might be part of that first kit?

This, for sure...

analogbird,do keep us posted on this interesting set as you find out more about it.

Wayne

I will certainly keep you posted. I have a call into Steve already awaiting a call back and I emailed Bob Olhsson as well. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Cheers

Keith

Reminds me of the kit Dolfan restored from The Record Plant...

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