I'm sorry to say, I would have argued that point. But, I went back and checked my pics and some other pics. I'll be darned...Moon DID play a SuperClassic in the High Numbers. Totally blanked that one out. Thanks for that. Good job.

Oh, and I played a SuperClassic from about 1964 to 1968-ish...and again and again and again all through the years. Got another one!

Check out this site on moonie's equipment, pretty cool:

http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/drums/equip-moondrums.htm

Just took a look through my copy of "John Bonham - A Thunder of Drums" and saw that Bonham played a green sparkle Super Classic kit with his pre Zeppelin bands, "Band of Joy" and "A Way of Life". The book states that he was likely still using this kit when he when he first joined Led Zeppelin.

I'd love to see that pic again as I seemed to have loaned out my copy of that and it has yet to be returned DOH:mad: I was pretty sure that kit was a Slingerland kit, but maybe my memory fails me....

"I'd love to see that pic again as I seemed to have loaned out my copy of that and it has yet to be returned I was pretty sure that kit was a Slingerland kit, but maybe my memory fails me...."

I don't think there's a pic in the book but it claims he used the Super Classic on the first record - there's a pic in another book of him playing a sparkle Slingerland kit in the New Yardbirds days in Denmark but that could as easily be a local pick-up kit as his own.

I agree that Charlie Watts is the luckiest man alive. Whenever i see him play play an 8th note beat and not hit the hi-hat on 2 and 4 it makes me crazy. Why does he do that?? In my opinion he lacks feel and is nothing more than a human drum machine. Granted he is a rich drum machine!!LOLToilet

I used to hate Charlie Watts when I was a kid - now I'm older I think I appreciate the under-playing though doesn't always groove as much as you'd think when that simple. But the 2 and 4 hi-hat thing drives me to distraction.

A mate of mine got to interview him in the mid-80s and he asked me for a more "drummerly" question for him. I got him to ask why Charlie always played so avowedly simply and the answer (slight paraphrased here) was "because I was always worried about f**king up if I played too complicated" which I always thought was a classic honest (and also under-stated) response. He went up in my estimation immensely after that.

As for the whole Super Classic thing, isn't the question more "who didn't play"?

I can not believe you guys bagging Charlie. Go get a copy of Shine a Light and watch a 66 year old hold the band together, as he has done for 40 years. To put up with Mick and Keef for all those years ,he deserves to do what ever he wants with his hats. Charlie is O K

If you want to hear Charlie at his best get anything by the Charlie Watts Orchestra.....Live @ Fullham Town Hall, A Tribute to the Bird, Charlie Parker.....then tell me he's the worst....