In case you were wondering what was in the small case, here it is.

I have another small case like that one with a bunch of cow bells in it. One of those cow bells was gifted to Johns Grandson when John put together the clubdate kit for him.

The trap case I bought for 10 bucks, hope I didn't get ripped off!

Very neat Jeff! I love stuff like the names and little dates and so forth. I leave them whenever possible. Usually do some research on them too. I bought a 60's Ludwig wmp 14x18 bass awhile back. After I detailed it, I could see the shadow of the original shield and initial on the front head. Ludwig would do those as a special order. I'm going to redo and go with the initial that was on there originally instead of mine. Just feels right.

Bought a tri sparkle 12x15 60's Ludwig marching tenor back in the winter. It had the old red( I think that's right) tape with some numbers on it. It was done with one of those old hand held deals. I remember them from the early 70's. Left them on there as well. Would have shown the fade in the wrap if removed.

Bought my vistalite kit back in 2003. One of the ride tom cases had a Supertramp "Breakfast in America" decal and a "Wings over America" decal as well.

Mike

for me it would depend on age and if it adds to the cool factor. if it ads to the history that just a cool find in itself.

all my fiber drum cases are covered in stickers (which by now are probibly holding them together) every time i would play people and other bands would check them out.

i have 3 anvil road cases from famous bands, so there's no way i would alter those.

I have a couple of cases from a famous drummer that I will not remove his name from….

Mike, I did not know Ludwig put a shield on the bass head as a special order, thats cool that you have one.

Makes perfect sense to leave famous musician's names on anything.

Funny,

The only case I have that's marked up is a marching snare case that came with a Carlton pipe band snare. I am suspecting it was a girl's pipe band from the number of princess stickers (lots). The glue on these has set, I tried to remove one and it took too much of the case fibre to bother removing more.

Ha, funny. Add a Kim Wilde decal "Kids in America" on it and you'd have a trifecta.

Seriously, cool though. To think Wings drummer Joe English may have used it on that historic 1976 tour... then passed off to whomever Supertramp's drummers was for the 1979 gigs..

I also saw that episode of American Pickers. Up until the point where the guitarist said he would leave the stickers, I was thinking, "Don't you dare remove that man's name from that guitar!". The daughter of the musician even gave a picture of her father playing the guitar. Now this man's story will live on every time that guitar is played.

I just think of myself as a temporary custodian of my vintage drums.

Rescue them, repair them, play them and eventually pass them on. Hopefully they will last for another 40 - 50 years.

-Tim

Hey Jeff!

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetwater_%28band%29

Could it be? If so, how cool.

-Tim