Cool pic, Mark!!

Here`s Vinny Appice doing a solo on a concert tom set back in `87...

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrY61zHK21s"]Vinny Appice Hard Rock Drum Solo 1987 - YouTube[/ame]

Cheers

A bit late to the party but...

I recently bought a concert tom kit which is actually all single headed, down to the kick. It is the Slingerland 58N "Pop" outfit: 20/12/13/16 with an additional two-headed 18 floor tom that was meticulously converted to a single to match the rest, although I'm not a two FT kinda guy so it's just a bonus.

It's hip to rag on concert toms but there's a place for everything, and they're quite practical for what I do. I play live & unmiked in large orchestras where there is a huge wall of sound and frequencies, so things like nuance, warmth, tone etc. get lost in the sauce anyway. What is important on my end is projection and attack and they give me that. And at the end of the night I can nest the 12/16/20 into a single case that barely weighs more than a modern 22x18 kick.

I don't think there's a hard-and-fast rule that states that drums must have a reso head to be respectable. Congas, bongos, and timbales seem to get by just fine. I believe that concert toms suffer in part from being associated with now-gauche musical trends of the past, but they really are still useful in certain situations. Now if only people would stop buying them only to drill them full of holes to add a reso head!

Tis all I`ve ever played. I`ve only given tom tom's a try. Not many say that !i

Some of my favorite tom sounds were Mark Craney's Fibes on Gino Vanelli's "Brother to Brother".

In 1974 I added 6 8 10 14 15 16 " Concert toms to my Ludwig Hollywood set. They were 3 ply Maple Granitone interior. That had the small classic lugs and bearing edges on the reso side. I lost the Hollywood set and the 10 and 14 concert tom in a club fire. Some of you may have seen the famous pic of that charred set on the Internet at some point. I replaced the lost drums with the same, except now they were 6 ply maple with the large lugs, all drums. I still use the 10" concert tom with the classic 8x12" tom, and classic floor tom. Also mount my 14" and 16" Concert Tom's on a low Tama tom stand. I still like them for some gigs. I toured in the late 70's with the original concert toms and set. To old and lazy to haul, and set up and down all those drums now. I set them all up for a pic a couple years ago.