Found a 1975 Premier Drums catalog at http://www.drumarchive.com/Premier/ What an ace resource! Turns out to be a B303 kit and it deffo is a 2000 snare drum which I've always wanted - it's got this parallel snare strainer action that was dead good in it's day and still is. Dead responsive too - Carl Palmer (Asia, ELP etc) was a big fan and that's good enough for me! It's not complete in terms of hardware - only got the snare and two cymbal stands in Lokfast but it's not end of the world. Phil will freak out when he gets back from his mates - have set it up in dining room, ha ha.
What's also a bit wierd is the toms - 12", 14", 16". Odd, everything rock now is 12",13",16". There's a tension rod missing from the 14" tom but I've got one somewhere in the shed
Late afternoon things are on the well up. As we got back from dropping PJ off at his mate David's house, JAS is off to take a load of recycling - she rings up and gives me the details of some stuff at the recycling centre and comes back with an old set of premier drums and a ride cymbal that's a Paiste Formula 602 and although slightly keyholed I reckon must be worth £80/£90 on it's own. The snare is possibly a Premier 2000 as used by Carl Palmer and others but can't be sure - it's old stuff - slot tensioners etc. but what do you want for fifty notes??
So a load of cans, cardboard, bottles, paper etc. recycled, one set of drums recycled too. Only problem is even less space at home!!
Recycled Premier Kit - 60s/70s???
Paiste Formula 602 20" Ride stamp - worth a few quid this beggar I reckon.
Paiste Formula 602 20" Ride Serial No?
Middle of the day got tortured by having to sit through "Alvin and the Chipmunks" possibly gritted my teeth down to nothing watching it's unadulterated awefulness aaagggh. Worse thing about it is that it's got the guy from "My name is Earl" starring in it and now his street cred rating is about the same as if Lemmy started doing Stanna Stairlift adverts...
I been out on the super cool Giant FCR1 this morning. Very cold so didn't go overly fast also found am looking out for potholes rather more than before the accident which spoils things a bit. I rode up to the golf club and back as part of a cunning plan I have to incorporate fitness goals with getting better at golf goal. Am going to fasten a 5,7 and 9-iron to crossbar of slow but comfy, chuck golf shoes and a few balls in me rucksack and then cycle the 2.5 miles up to the golf club, do half hours practice, ride back and pick newspapers up on the way of a morning. That's the plan anyway.
You can't tell just how gorgeous this bike is from this picture. It's the dog's ding dangs, honest it is.
8.5 miles this morning, very slow but it was very cold and that included walking a short cut off the bypass onto the wyaston road.
So a load of cans, cardboard, bottles, paper etc. recycled, one set of drums recycled too. Only problem is even less space at home!!
Recycled Premier Kit - 60s/70s???
Paiste Formula 602 20" Ride stamp - worth a few quid this beggar I reckon.
Paiste Formula 602 20" Ride Serial No?
Middle of the day got tortured by having to sit through "Alvin and the Chipmunks" possibly gritted my teeth down to nothing watching it's unadulterated awefulness aaagggh. Worse thing about it is that it's got the guy from "My name is Earl" starring in it and now his street cred rating is about the same as if Lemmy started doing Stanna Stairlift adverts...
I been out on the super cool Giant FCR1 this morning. Very cold so didn't go overly fast also found am looking out for potholes rather more than before the accident which spoils things a bit. I rode up to the golf club and back as part of a cunning plan I have to incorporate fitness goals with getting better at golf goal. Am going to fasten a 5,7 and 9-iron to crossbar of slow but comfy, chuck golf shoes and a few balls in me rucksack and then cycle the 2.5 miles up to the golf club, do half hours practice, ride back and pick newspapers up on the way of a morning. That's the plan anyway.
You can't tell just how gorgeous this bike is from this picture. It's the dog's ding dangs, honest it is.
8.5 miles this morning, very slow but it was very cold and that included walking a short cut off the bypass onto the wyaston road.
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