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New Bass Drum Day...Bonham Content!!

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From mountainhick

Whoa! serious mongrel kit. I like it! Clapping Happy2I am on the way to something vaguely similar. I got a 14x26" Gretsch 1940's BD, have an old 10x14"single tension marching snare I am converting to a tom, a 14x16 1930's leedy floor tom (close enough for me), and a 402 snare I just had stripped of pitted chrome. I am refinishing it in a natural aluminum. All I need is the 18" FT.Funny too, I just picked up a Luddy Standard set yesterday with the BD mostly filled with 1974 newspapers! LoLoLoLo

Newspaper must have been the 70's "secret weapon" for bass drum muffling!!

Posted on 14 years ago
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From Bobby Cee

VERY cool! However,I believe you actually scored a Carmine Appice model lol. If you go to You Tube and search Vanilla Fudge, keep me hanging on,Ed Sullivan you'll see what I mean. Carmine turned Bonham on to the over sized Ludwigs. I saw them jam together at Singer Bowl,Queens NY circa 1970 or so at a Fudge concert. Bonham was so stoned,he had to be carried on and off the stage! It was a big jam session with jeff beck,Page,Plant,Rod Stewart,Glenn Cornick (from J Tull) o bass and a few others from the show. The bill was:Edwin hawkins Singers (Oh Happy Day) , 10 years after,Jeff Beck Group w/Rod Stewart and Ron Wood on bass and vanilla Fudge.The jam was un expected.Good luck with the set! I'm working on a similar set myself right now in the maple finish.

I thought Carmine's was an old Leedy? There's a good video of Jeff Beck's Definately Maybe with Cozy Powel playing, what appears to be a double 14x26 bass drum red sparkle kit as well...I'd love to see pics of ya'lls bonham style projects!!

Posted on 14 years ago
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