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Rock world or the jazz world is an exclusive place to find a good drummer. There are many bands which had come and gone, taking with them their drummers, but few of them remain in the recollection of the people. Drummers like Keith Moon, Jon Bonham are still remembered.So also Neil Pert and Lars Ulrich. They are a excellent class by themselves. Each is different from the other, whether it is the drumming style or the drum kits they use.

Let us start with Keith Moon. He was born in23rd August 1946 and died on 7th September 1978. He lived a short span of life because of his alcoholism and acute picularity. He is still famous. Some of his followers also named him as 'Mad Moon'. He was a powerful drummer. He was innovative. In 1964 Keith attached 'The Who' band. He was a very fast drummer, a singer and also a composer. He used to play faster and noisy, but with authority. He used fire crackers. He used them on the stage. He was so eccentric that he has broken many drums and perhaps his hobby was to blow up toilets.

He did not own drum kits. He has no made to order Kits as many other drummers had or have. He either borrowed or hired drum kits to play.He borrowed drum sets to play.He also hired them therefore, he had played with Rogers drum kit, Premier kit, Trixon kit, Lee Kings kit, Dave Clarke Five kit, Singerland kit, Ludwig kit and also Vistalities from Ludwig. Therefore he never stuck to any standardized kit.

Jon Henry Bonham was with Led Zeppilin. He was applauded for his 20 minute solo performance on his drumkit.. He was mainly a Rock Drummer and that too a great one. He also died young at the age of 32..

He played three different Ludwig green sparkle set in Lee Zeppilin III and IV. Jon Bonham used 24" and 26" bass drums and his mounted Tom was 12" deep.. At times he played in his bare hands. Jon Bonham has used different types of branded Drum Kits.. He had used, other than from the Ludwig sparkle green sparkle, which was his choice and best sounding kit, The Black Diamond Pearl and Thermo polish Natural Maple. He also used Ludwig Amber Versatile, Sparkle Silver Finish and Stainless Steel.. He used different types of floor Toms, rack Toms, supraphonic snare and Ludwig Timpani. He played in Paiste Cymbals. Later he changed His choice pedal for Drums Were Ludwig Speed King Pedals.

Neil Pert joined a Toronto based band "RUSH" and classified himself with it.|Neil Pert joined in "RUSH" band. It was in Toronto.}. He was basically inspired by Drummers like Keith Moon and Jon Bonham. He was an innovative type of Drum player who found a new style combining Jazz with Swing components.. Pert was a Drummer and like Moon was also a lyrist for their band. He had a complex style. It was sophisticated
His kits always give encouragement to other Drummers. With a large drum kit he often used all the Drums while performing..The drum kit he generally used was The Old Singerland Snare, Remo 'Legato' marching Snare, a 13" Ludwig Picolo on the back kit, Tama Gong Bass Drum, Promark drum sticks, Rem heads, LP Cowbells and some wind bells.

A Danish-American Drummer known as Lars Ulrich from Metallica, the heavy metal band, origin.| Lars Ulrich was from Metallica band}.
He regularly used Tama drums, Zildjian Cymbals and Remo drum heads. He is seldom seen without his customized kits.|He never played without his own drums}. He also used Ludwig drums, Grtsch drums and Sambian Cymbals, Calato Regal drum sticks but changed to Eastern Ahead at a later date.

Steve Smith and Phil Rudd played wit sonar drums. In recent times Danny Carey of TOOL and Gavin Harrison are few of the names who play sonar drums.