Although Moon played Premier drums for most of his career, the snare drums he used for his later recordings and on stage were 8-lug Gretsch DRB Special snare drums (he had lots of them). But he also played Premier Steel snares until at least 1969 (some live pictures show a steel snare). I guess the switch to warmer sounding Gretsch wood-snares came with the Tommy-Recordings. He used some Premier wood-snares later, too (again visible on some pictures of him from 1973/74).Moon, always recorded pretty well I think. Premier?