Drums

Main Kit

HighWood VG custom drums in Vintage Marine Pearl finish

22x20 Bass Drum, 10x7 and 12x7.5 toms, 14x12 and 16x14 floor toms. Nice eh?!

Second Kit

HighWood Custom Exotic Ply Birch kit

This kit used to belong to the owner of HighWood Drums himself - an absolute work of art and a true object of desire, I fell for this when I first visited HighWood's workshops in Wakefield... and finally, I own it!

20x18 Bass Drum, 10, 12 toms, 14 and 16 floor toms

Third Kit

Premier Artist Birch in Natural Lacquer finish

22x18 Bass Drum, 10x8 tom, 12x10 and 14x12 mounted floor toms.

(Not the most flattering picture! This was taken at Rachel's 30th Birthday RockyOke bash in our local pub, and I was very, very drunk!)

Another bit of fun...

Premier Artist maple in Blue Marine Pearl

24x18, 14 tom and 18 floor tom - for those days when you need some boom!

Vintage Kit - Now gone to a better, much more deserving owner - Congrats Ian!

Premier Soundwave Birch kit in Natural and Stained Stripe Lacquer finish

22x14 Bass Drum, 13, 14 toms, 16 floor tom.

There's a bit of history with this old kit - My Dad (God rest 'is soul and all that) scrimped and saved to buy it for me when I started gigging seriously way back in about 1985. I'd lusted after this kit in all it's glory in the showroom at Barratt's music shop on Oxford Road in Manchester, where I worked on Saturdays. The kit had been a 'hire kit' to the BBC (whose studios were just up the road). It was used as part of the 'Record Breakers' kit for Cozy Powell, when he broke the record for hitting the most drums in one minute! Many other famous players have used (and mimed!) it on TOTP and other programmes.

I was so tempted to keep this, because it truly is a beautiful piece of art, but was just one kit too many for my garage. Sounds lovely!

The 'Ex' kit!

Premier Signia in Cherry Red Lacquer finish - now sold - a big mistake!

2 x 22x18 Bass Drums, 8, 10, 12, 12, 14, 16, 16 toms - lovely!

Snare Drums

HighWood Custom Steambent Maple (Wooden Hoops) 14x6

Pearl 'Ian Paice' Signature 14 x 7 steel

Premier 2000 14 x 5.5 steel

Premier 2025 14 x 5.5 brass

Custom Maple Stave Snare 14 x 5

Cymbals

All Sabian

13" HH Bright Hats

14" AAX Fusion Hats

16" AAX Studio Crash

16" AA Medium Thin Crash

17" AAX Studio Crash

18" AA Medium Thin Crash

18" AAX Studio Crash

18" AAX Metal Crash

18" HHX Studio Crash

14" AAX Mini Chinese

16" HH China

18" B9 Pro China

18" AA 'Carmine Appice' China

20" AA Rock Ride

22" HH Power Bell Ride

8" AAX Splash

8" B8 Pro China Splash

10" HHX Splash

10" Mike Portnoy 'Max Stax' (10" Signature China Kang over 10" Signature Splash)

Pedals, Sticks etc

Iron Cobra Rolling Glide double pedals

Premier 252 and 251 single pedals

Iron Cobra Hi-Hat Stand

HardCase cases

Los Cabos 'Red Hickory' 3A sticks

Other Gear

AGK, Shure and Audio Technica mics

Soundcraft and Studiomaster live desks

Alesis reverbs, DBX, Behringer and Drawmer gates

Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 Audio Interface

Roland VS1680 digital recording console

Yamaha APX5-A acoustic guitar

Yamaha RX-7 Bass guitar

Fender and Peavey combos

Carlsbro powered monitors