This photo from the summer of 1966 was sent to me earlier today by the guy in the red and white striped shirt in the photo.
It is now the second picture I have of my first kit. The other is black & white and the drums are largely blocked from view.
This is the kit I got in the fall of 1965 from the Sears & Roebuck catalog. It was my first introduction to Pearl Drums which was not yet a brand name when I got them. There was no logo or brand name on them. Not Sears, not Silvertone, not even Pearl. But, on the underside of the hi-hat foot board "Pearl Drum Company LTD Japan" was in small raised letters. Not long after the photo was taken I got the matching floor tom tom. That little crummy cymbal that came with the kit also got replaced with a 20" K Zildjian from Istanbul.
I think this was taken after a rehearsal of our new band The Undertakers. I don't know where the other two members were and those are some of the kids from the neighborhood. The little blond guy wanted to be photographed behind the drums so I let him. Unusual for overprotective me.
Funny, I still play with the same angle on the mounted tom tom.
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