Heartbreaking: Bill Bruford English drummer and percussionist Prog rock Member Just Passed Away At the Aged of 75…see..more…

Heartbreaking: Bill Bruford English drummer and percussionist Prog rock Member Just Passed Away At the Aged of 75…see..more…, I wrote about successfully restoring a Tama “Bill Bruford Signature Series Palette” snare drum, and then building a duplicate version wrapped in chrome. Although they looked and sounded great, I thought about completing this project by adding a kit to go with it. Now I suppose I could always could buy a Tama Starclassic kit, and use the snares I built, but where is the fun in that? Bruford’s Signature snare drum had all black Tama lugs, just like his Tama kit with King Crimson. That particular kit was a Canary Yellow Tama with deep power toms. Bruford would reappear with a another version of that yellow kit at the 1999 Modern Drummer Festival alongside his all acoustic Earthworks band. That kit also had black lugs, and featured an 18″ kick drum, 16″, 13″, 12″ and 10″ toms. That kit appeared to be a rarity, perhaps even custom-made for Bruford. I’ve never seen another Tama kit that matched it. If I could gather the right shells, get some yellow drum wrap, black flanged hoops, and black lugs, perhaps I could make a version of that kit for myself!