Always found Chico Hamilton to be an "interesting" player. Here he is with an interesting SSB set-up. Go to 36:40 for a brief solo..
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Kda64WnYU"]Chico Hamilton - YouTube[/ame]
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Chico's concert tom ssb gretsch
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Never play it the same way once.
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He was definitely way ahead of the curve (and Hal Blaine) on the concert tom fad. He'd been using a single headed toms since the 50's.
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There are three drums in his pictured set you don't see often in the RB era: 12 x 20 BD; 18 x 14 Single Head FT; 12 x 14 Single Head FT.
I read in an interview his fondness for single head toms came early in his career from wearing out/breaking the batter heads. He removed them and put the reso heads on top because he couldn't afford to replace them.
Never play it the same way once.
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