I think Zakk would be the guy to start a drum-museum. Read somewhere that he owns that huge old Carl Palmer stainless behemoth from the early 70s.

I believe he also owns some of Moonie's stuff too....

Shrieve may have people who worship him in the small world of drummers. There are many times more people who worship guitar players. I don't think that Carlos Santana's guitar from Woodstock would fetch anythere near $350,000.

Great for all the people who think it should be donated. But how many of you would do that if you owned it and someone offered you an insane amount of money to sell it to them. Enough to put your kids through college, pay off the house, or pay for medical procedures your family needed?

Donation is easy when it is not your stuff. Who thinks it should be donated - and has already donated to this website to help keep it going?

BTW - the listing has been removed. Do not know why. Will be asking Donn tomorrow.

It appears that the auction has been ended. Maybe someone offered a great deal of money? I think I'll email Don and find out!

He used to own the white kit with the copper hardware, but sold it many years ago....from what I understand, the Hard Rock Cafe owns it now....not sure if he owns anything else of "Uncle Keith's".....

I had the pleasure of seeing Santana play for the first time on the East Coast at the NY pavillion as an opening act to BB King. As soon as they started playing, the entire audience (mostly college) stopped talking and turned to watch Carlos and company. It was an awesome set and experience!guitar3Clapping Happy2D' DrummerClapping Happy2

$350g's though for the kit....way overpriced in my opinion.

It's very unlikely that anyone will pay $350K for that kit. And, like I already said, Donn Bennett prices stuff like that for the "WOW!" factor. People will want to see the "$350K drum kit" and come into Donn's shop to do so.

I worked as the head grower at a large orchid growing greenhouse range. We kept all our best stuff on display in one house. The owner would put little tags with specific information -including insurance value. I was curious as to why he did that at first, but then one day, some people came in and started looking around. They saw one plant had a tag on it and the insurance value was marked at $50K. No, I'm not kidding. It was, in fact a very rare alba f l o wering form of an otherwise red-f l o w e r producing species. No other known f l o w e r s of its kind...etc. It wasn't really anything particularly beautiful to look at in comparison to many others (my opinion, of course)...but it was one-of-a-kind. So, guess which f l o w e r garnered the most attention of them all? You guessed it -the $50K one.

So, was it worth $50K? Is the Shrieve kit worth $350K? Placing monetary values that reflect historical significance or uniqueness is a random thing. Would any of us on this forum pay that much for the Shrieve kit? I know I wouldn't....but not because I don't think it's "worth" $350K, but rather because I don't have that kind of money to mess around with. But, maybe a Saudi Arabian oil sheik rents the movie "Woodstock" one day and sees Shrieve playing that kit on "Soul Sacrifice". Maybe the sheik goes crazy for it and has to have it...just to touch it. So he sends his gold-plated Lear jet to Washington, goes to Bennett's and gets the kit. My question is this, "What's $350K to him?"

oh, yeah...and that orchid...the $50K orchid? What happened to it was that the owner wasn't paying the lease on the land the greenhouses were sitting on, so the business folded. All the stock -including the $50K orchid was destroyed. He threw them all into a horse pasture.

What we place values on can be very fleeting.

Well said!

That fire story is an myth. There was a lengthy discussion on DFO not too long ago about all of Ringo's drums. He loaned parts of kit one and kit two (the Sullivan kit is kit #2) at some point in the late 60's or early 70's. There are pictures of them during the recording of Paul's solo album "McCartney" and early Wings era. Ringo can be seen playing them in the "take it away" video. All of the drums are back in Ringo's possession at this point.