Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Calling this the Portakit 2000 maybe? ;)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170128662867

electronically yours, jesper
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The most important thing to worry about is "Mickey Finn" Style. This Mickey Finn could be seen in the 70s together with another guy called Marc Bolan: Some people swear they were musicians, having a famous group called T.Rex, but the only important thing is, that this Mickey Finn must be a grandfather now. Or did he relaunch his "career" somehow and I (luckily...) missed it? :-) I think, most potential customers of this toy don't even know who this Mickey is! And nobody can speak of a style watching Mickey play, sorry. May be the marketing/advertising person is a grandfather too...

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Well, any flaws in the memory of those young drummers can be "cured" with 
youtube. ;)

BTW, anyone thinking like me, that, the red SDS-V set with hihat and cymbal 
cards as well as a Simmons cymbal,was weird it never got above 270 pounds... 
OK, there was a reserve, but 270 for a complete set which looked to be in 
good nick...

electronically yours, jesper
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From: <michael.buchner@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] what's guitar center's next move?


> The most important thing to worry about is "Mickey Finn" Style. This 
> Mickey Finn could be seen in the 70s together with another guy called Marc 
> Bolan: Some people swear they were musicians, having a famous group called 
> T.Rex, but the only important thing is, that this Mickey Finn must be a 
> grandfather now. Or did he relaunch his "career" somehow and I 
> (luckily...) missed it? :-) I think, most potential customers of this toy 
> don't even know who this Mickey is! And nobody can speak of a style 
> watching Mickey play, sorry. May be the marketing/advertising person is a 
> grandfather too...
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

Thanks for this history lesson
I didn't know about the Trex drummer
and indeed a bit outdated ( like a dinosaurus)

greetz Berk

 
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>To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
>From: <michael.buchner@debitel.net>
>Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 03:19:45 +0200
>Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] what's guitar center's next move?
>Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>The most important thing to worry about is "Mickey Finn" Style. This Mickey
>Finn could be seen in the 70s together with another guy called Marc Bolan:
>Some people swear they were musicians, having a famous group called T.Rex,
>but the only important thing is, that this Mickey Finn must be a grandfather
>now. Or did he relaunch his "career" somehow and I (luckily...) missed it?
>:-) I think, most potential customers of this toy don't even know who this
>Mickey is! And nobody can speak of a style watching Mickey play, sorry.
May
>be the marketing/advertising person is a grandfather too...
>
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>


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> Calling this the Portakit 2000 maybe? ;)
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170128662867

I can't see how this would be any worse than the 
Simmons (Soundunit) DrmX.  

I've posted a photo of a DrmX in the photos section.
For those of you who've never seen one, it was a cheap
plastic tabletop "drum kit" which plugs into the
gameport/midi socket of a PC soundcard.  Made under
licence for Simmons/Soundunit in collaboration with
"kits for kids".


Steve

(who thought we didn't discuss Guitar Center on this list).