Jeff,

Evans never made drums that I know of.

As you probably know, it's very common for "people who don't know much about drums" to read the name on the head and think that's what kind of drum they have, especially if there's no other name/badge on the drum. I've gone and looked at lots of garage sale and craigslist drums where the sellers advertise that they have Ludwig drums when in fact all they have were cheap entry-level drums that someone put Ludwig heads on (or a sticker on the front side of the BD). Some do that innocently, some I'm not so sure...

Anyway, sounds to me like the price your friend is offering to you is just about right, anyway! Go for it!

Bill

Yes I know what your saying Bill. I have been disapointed so many times because the seller saw a Ludwig drum head and advertized it as a Ludwig kit. My hope is that it will be the opposite this time, Evans heads on an old club date or something. I will find out soon!

Hey you never know! Sure is worth a look. This could be your lucky chance.

Thats a good one.When I got my Sears 3pc drums for Christmas 1966,I thought they were Remo drums.It was fun to be young learning to play drums with a record player (another fine Sears product) with Ringo and Charlie Watts as teachers.They were red sparkle as well.

Wow!! This sure brought back memories!!

Yes, I remember learning to play with a Mongomery Ward's "stereo" record player! The turnable and stereo speakers (which could be disconnected and spread about 6 feet apart) folded all up together in a carrying case!

The Beatles, The Monkees, Gary Puckett & the Union Gap, Herman's Hermits, Guess Who, etc... boy, I learned from all of them! Whoever we had LP's and 45's of!

I'll say one thing -- it also helped me to learn to adjust "my" volume and play at least semi-quietly... as the drums could easily drowned out the maximum volume of the stereo...

Bill

That does bring back memories as well. Mine was a JC Penney's stereo in the aforementioned cabinet. It has a 16rpm speed so we could slow down our LP's and figure out the difficult bits. The funny thing about those stereos (Sears, Montgomery Wards, JCP, etc) is that they were probably stencil brand stereos just like the drum kits; all MIJ.

Jeff,

The worst that could happen is you could get a free kit on which to practice your already impressive finishing skills.

Scott,

I had forgotten, but ours slowed down to 16 as well -- but I honestly never thought of slowing it down to figure out harder parts... oh well!!

It's a wonder that record player of ours lasted as long as it did!! Besides using it as a "learning" tool, my little brother and I used to play "DJ" with it, mimicking the DJs on the local radio station. KIWI 1440 AM in Topeka was the big teenie-bopper station at the time for us!

That record player was still around when I left home for good in 1973. The first record I ever remember playing on it was a 45 of J Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss" (my older sister bought that one) and it lasted through quite a range of evolution of Rock Music, up to and through Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young!!

Bill

I bet if we had pictures of those they would be strangely similar...kind of like MIJ drums. I had just reasoned that 16rpm was more or less half of 33 1/3 so why not? It was better for figuring out guitar and keyboard solos than drum parts as the drums certainly turned into slow motion thunder and seriously high passed white noise. Cool Dude

That's how I learned to play. I had a Remco Liverpool compact drum set when I was 8, 18" bass, 14" snare, 10" tom. With real heads. sort of hard press board cardboard. Gold ones. And a little red and white record player. I spent hours in my room playing to Elvis, Disney records, anything I could find. Then when I was 11 got a Sears Whitehall set. I was in heaven. Played to Tommy Row's Dizzy, credence, any and everything I could get or borrow. Finally got a system I could plug headphones in at 12. People would ask my Mother how she could stand it with me playing all the time, every day. She would say, "at least I know where he is". I played my first club gig when I was 14 with our band at the NCO club out on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL. Told my folks I had a date and had one of my little girlfriends from school who had a friend with a car to come get me.