You old farts will remember these!

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I remember seeing Alan White with Yes playing a set of those, oh, about a hundred years ago. :cool:
 
Those things are real?! I always thought it was just the acid.
 
They have a white set of these for sale at the Guitar Satan in Westminster, CO. They've been there for ever, they'd probably pay you to haul them away by now!

I bet *Peter* North would play these if he were a drummer.
 
The floor toms are my favorite! :)

If anyone sees someone playing a set of Trixon (the egg shaped bass drum with the toms mounted on a single rail) drums, definitely let me know!
 
Forgot to mention that the kit with the flames on it was the "Drumkit of the Month" in Modern Drummer magazine a while back.
 
I haven't thought about North drums in years. I had a freind who had a kit. I never really liked the sound, and finding cases that worked with these drums was a costly pain....

but, they did look very cool on stage.
 
i think the original drummer

from Nirvana played North drums. Not dave grohl but the guy who was on most of the "bleach" album. Chad someone or another. I remember seeing pictures with these odd shaped drums.
 
Didn't like Peavey (Of all brands) have a set something like that in the '80's??

Some Marching drums are kind of like that still no?


:)
 
those marching drums (snares mostly) have "scoops" on them, which are used to serve the same purpose (and it works).

i remember the North ads in MD back in like 85. i wanted a set. :D


wade
 
I kind of think they look neat...very Dali-esque. Surrealist drums.
 
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..."Dali-esque. Surrealist drums."

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You have so totaly hit it on the head!

Imagine Dahi's "Persistence of time" painted on the drums!!!
It would scare the heck out of someone under the influence of certain substances I shall refrain from mentioning.


:)
 
Trixon anyone?

They also made a kick that started at like 22" on the batter side and tapered down to like 18" on the resonant side.
 

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I've only seen pictures of Trixon (I'd love to see one up close).

I've often wondered how you replaced the drum skins?? The only thing I could think of was that they used skins (anyone remember playing on actual skins???) and used water to soften them to that weird shape?
 
Modern Drummer had an article on them a while ago. If you can believe it, Remo still makes heads on a special order basis!
 
Another odd kit were Stacatto drums from the early 80's, they were similar to the North's horn shape but had an even more bizzare looking notched flare at the openings, especially the bass drums, had sort of a double flare.
I've got an old set of Zickos drums (made in Kansas) from the mid 70's (they mostly made transparent acrylic sets with much thicker shells then the clear Ludwigs) that are made of very thick white fibreglass and have nifty quick change fall away tuning lugs. Each drum's batter head is several inches larger than the bottom head....the bass drum looks sort of like a cross between a deepsea divers helmut and an industrial washing machine. The Evans oil filled heads were originally designed especialy for the Zickos.....they really sound like krap with anything else on them! They are ok for getting a vintage Sly Dunbar thump when the bottom heads are removed ..... but just about anything with an oil filled head on it will do that.
I saw another Zickos kit once on SoulTrain back in the 70's played by Al Green's drummer (post Al Jackson)
his kit was white (probably fibreglass) and had closed curved bottoms like tympani. Still, those oval bass drums of Trixon's take the cake for sheer Wackieness!
 
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