[COLOR="YellowGreen"]My Monster![/COLOR]
In February it will have been 8 years since I found this kit which began the journey that has come full circle and now have me building fiberglass drums along with my partner David Martin.
Today is the first time I have taken this kit out of a storage closest to set them up and play. It is no small task to get this beast up and running.
When I look at them and play them I remember why I was so inspired to restore them as well as now build them. After I partially restored this kit and heard what they could do, I sold off most of my other kits. They had a sound that was just unbeatable in my book. I think it was three of the four kits I had at the time. This is definitely a "make you smile" while you are playing kit!
They took me down an amazing path that continues to this day. I found this forum and others that helped me understand what I had when I was really not familiar with Blaemire, although I vaguely remembered the name from when I worked in a drum shop.
They immediately had members here telling me about their past with Hal Blaine and how rare they were to find. I met a handful of great drum builders who encouraged me to start producing these again. After about four years of restoring dozens of them as well as selling them to forum members, David Martin approached me and asked me if I had ever thought of reproducing them. When I told him I had already sent two samples to out of country sources, he offered to wind them here in the US.
The rest is history!
David and I both are still inspired by what Allen Blaemire accomplished in his garage in Eagle Rock California. His drums played by Hal Blaine were the sound of my youth! He was a Renaissance man!
I am humbled to build these drums. I still cant believe I met him, made a connection and now build these incredible drums like he did. It is just too cool!
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The black shells are what they looked like when I first got them.
I have added 4 drums to the original 7. Most were NOS shells I got from Allen himself.
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