What's the Weirdest Drum thing you have ever seen?

North Marching drums from the 70's....W.T.F.

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During college -in the 70's, we had projectors that velcroed onto the drums:

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yep...while those definitely had a "70's look", they were still not as fugly (or heavy) as the North drums. North's were 100% fiberglass, which made them sound awful, real heavy to carry, and they had this really bad smell in the heat of the sun...like dead body kind of smell
 
yep...while those definitely had a "70's look", they were still not as fugly (or heavy) as the North drums. North's were 100% fiberglass, which made them sound awful, real heavy to carry, and they had this really bad smell in the heat of the sun...like dead body kind of smell
They look hideous. Everything else you said makes them, redonkulous. :ROFLMAO:
 
"One man's trash...." I happen to use North toms and enjoy them.
My vote is Molecules drums.
I'll (respectfully) see your Molecules drums with some similar early plastic drums from California, and raise you a double high hat attachment!
 

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@SkullDrummerReturns Your OP says, What's the Weirdest Drum thing you have ever seen?

Do you mean weirdest drum thing we've actually seen with our own eyes OR weirdest picture of a drum thing we found on the internet? These are two different things.
 

Jim Mothersbaugh, former Devo drummer turned engineer at Roland, built an early electronic drum set out of Remo practice pads, piezo pickups, and guitar pedals. Their commercial stuff was done with Alan Myers on actual drums for the most part, but they recorded a lot of home demos with Jim and released them eventually.
 
Tommy Lee going upside down/rotating in my hometown Civic Center in 1987. I was on the floor, which was just standing room only for concerts on the floor section (the place had originally been built for ice hockey I think), and when the drums came out over the top and started rotating and going upside down I was probably standing about 15 to 20 feet (estimate) below him watching this thing. The crowd were going absolutely nuts, but all I could think (sincerely) was that if that thing wasn't secure it was going to come crashing down on my head and I was going to die at a Motley Crue concert.
 
Staccato are the most ridiculous drum things I have ever seen. The bass drum looks like a pair of shorts sticking out. Ridiculous.

It may have been Rock Van Horn who once said in an MD article that drummers are basically a conservative lot. They like drums to be round, and they should look like drums, not empty spools of thread, triangles, pant legs, radiators, or globular fish bowls. All these so-called "Innovations" tanked big time. Why? Because drummers want drums that look like drums. There, I said it again. Innovation is fine. Outlandish experiments don't usually work in the land of drums.
 
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Talk about a solution to a problem that never existed—all while creating a whole new set of problems that never needed to exist. Like where do I find triangular drum heads? Or triangular cases? Wanna upgrade to die cast hoops? Where you gonna find those?

But the biggest problem is, why do I look like such a dweeb playing these ridiculously stupid drums?
 
Whitey Glann used sideways bass drums ( white Camco) in Bette Midler's " The Rose " movie . Later on he switched to normal , but used that weird setup for many years .

 
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