Dennis recorded with Roy Orbison (not sure that his tracks were the released versions,) and also Classics IV (that's him on "Spooky",) "Let Your Love Flow", "Spiders & Snakes", and the Diamond recordings from "Forever In Blue Jeans" through the Jazz Singer album & movie ("America", "Love On The Rocks" etc.) Also cut albums with The Lettermen, Linda Ronstadt, just a bunch of artists who didn't have their own bands. He had
excellent time and a great feel, never any pushing or pulling, it was all smooth. With Diamond in particular, he went for the toms a lot, very evident in "Forever In Blue Jeans", "America" et al.
He did have some cool Slingerland kits, including the All American outift with red/white/blue sparkle concert toms. He was also the drummer who suggested to the president of Slingerland after watching a corps show in Chicago, that the cutaway quds/quints would make cool concert toms. I believe he had the first kit of those, which he eventually bestowed upon me.
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All-American kit, which he loaned to me for a session in 1975. It was the only kit like it in L.A. - maybe anywhere - and I shouldn't have been surprised when the engineer knew that was Dennis' kit!
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FYI, Neil used Hal Blaine on most of his L.A. recordings (thru about 1975) and described Hal as his favorite drummer.
So that's Hal on "Cracklin' Rosie", "Sweet Caroline", "Song Sung Blue" etc.
FYI2 - yes, that's a ventriloquist dummy in the bottom photo. ?