Wow! At first I thought you really bought the weirdest, crappiest old drum kit ever but after you worked your magic I was blown away and fell in love it. Awesome drum playing too!
Totally agree with you, from the perspective of programing percussion, it's very cool to find a sample set of something more left-field and it would benefit people playing electronic kits possibly; I've never tried the latter.
To be fair a lot of the reason rdavidr 's drums sound great in his video is the $$$$ mics he's using. I've heard North Drums in person a few times and they do sound unique and LOUD but they have a rather thin sound and not as warm and rich as this video.
Honestly… I was a bit skeptical about this one when I clicked on it.. but I just kept having to watch it. That kit actually sounded fantastic! I was pretty impressed with how cool it sounded. Definitely a kit to save for an 80s cover band night. Lol! Thanks for the fun video!
A bit of a hollow tone but I bet the projection is great. I would love to hear it with microphones set up a bit further from the openings. The drums are probably more for live performance than a studio.
Aside from electronic drums, the big players in the drum industry market have turned a snob nose to alot of different and innovative percussion ideas which center around the traditional drumset. It's lame they'd focus their attention on petty and useless theories like 20 different ways just to mount a rack tom, when something like this kit sounds great. I know from experience trying to introduce new ideas and upgrades to hardware/shells which actually function better and weigh less while sounding good.
Actually, North drums go back to the 70's.......................I specifically remember Alan White of Yes (he recently passed away, RIP Alan) using North drums for the 1976/1977 Yes tours, and the Blue Devils (DCI world champion drums corps) used them in 1976 and 1986 - I'm sure there were many other people using them as well at that time. They were kinda trendy in the 70's but their popularity faded in the 1980's. The unique visual look of North drums also prompted other companies like Slingerland (and later on Ludwig and Yamaha) to create the 'cutaway' look of marching tenor drums - a design element that is pretty much standard on today's marching tenors. Gotta admit though, these ARE cool sounding drums!!
Cool find, David. This brings back some great memories for me. I was lead singer in a band as a freshman back in high school where our "drummer" had a yellow North kit just like that one. However, the guy was a terrible drummer who couldn't play any of the songs, so I ended up playing his drums while singing lead vocals just so we could get through all of the songs. This of course led me to buying my own set of Tama Swingstar drums (which was black with 2 bass drums, 4 rack toms, and a floor tom), starting me down my drumming road. So because of this, North drums are kind of near & dear to my heart.
Phil collins has entered the chat. I love unique drums like these. They stand out where so many other kits just look like each other, and therefore sound and inspire you to play the same as each other. These are funky and powerful and draw something out of the player.
Years ago I saw one of these kits in the window of a second hand store. I went in and looked at them, and looked at them, and looked at them some more, then walked away. About a week later I went and looked at them again, and walked away. That's been 20 years ago and they still cross my mind every so often. That was the only time I ever saw any. Yesterday they crossed my mind again. Then today this video shows up on my feed... just shaking my head... Thanks for the great vids. Keep up the good work.
Absolutely killer kit, and those wingnuts? They are Premier! When they first introduced that mounting system it was so good you would see drums of a different brand with their mounting system!
I always wanted to own a North drum set. They’ve always looked so cool to me. Chad Channing is the drummer who got me into the look when I was still in primary school, watching Nirvana’s With The Lights Out dvd when the box set first came out. So glad to see you post a video testing a kit out!
@@xyanide1986 It's when people play super complex drums fills, but they are not following the pulsation so their tempo is all over the place, pushing and pulling back like a beginner.
@@xyanide1986 push/pull is actually a style of stroke where you use the rebound of the head/cymbal to perform double stokes, which is what the original commenter is referencing. velterradio is referencing rushing/dragging which is essentially falling off tempo.
My uncle had a north kit back in the 80s and I just remembered how fat the Tom's sounded and this video just brought back that memory.. those drums sound incredible man..
Cool drums. Been loving your channel since the $20 drum kit. Always entertaining, informative and enjoyable. BTW you're playing has gotten sick and you're really killing on this video. Just love those tom fills and cymbal crashes!
Roger North lives in Portland, OR and still plays North drums to this day. Also, have to say this is hands down the best recorded sound of a kit I’ve seen on your channel. The track you played with is perfect for those drums.
Crazy I’m gonna look him up Jeff kirsh is a great resource here for drummers same with rhythm traders If you are in Pdx got check out super secret band or lost ox or Jay si proof
Love some North drums!! I had a huge Gibraltor rack at one time, and the fault with them is the tube design. I crushed so many tubes trying to make it where the stands and cymbals wouldn't move.
Fun to see this. There was a band in my hometown of Plano Tx circa 1983 and the drummer had this exact kit, which I think was called Projectors (the kit and the band). Anyway, it did not make a big impression on the drumming world at the time, and I am thankful that you have resurrected a semi-horrible but also somewhat cool kit from the graveyard.
This is from an era where musicians put on a visual show equally as a musical one by using unique instruments. I say that kit is an awesome piece of history!
DAMN this thing sounds better than i was expecting! dem tom soundz doe 😦 love when you can really hear that tone of what you tuned your toms to, almost like the toms “sing” a bit more than closed shell toms, and that shape really projects that sound! i’d love to hear these in person and get a lil seat time behind this kit myself! awesome!
A drummer i used to play with had Gibraltar rack. He was constantly struggling with moving toms because round right. So he bought a square rack from some other brand, worked a charm
@@djentlover Me either. I bought a Pearl ICON rack years ago, and loved it. It was expensive, especially with all the extra mounting hardware, but nothing ever moved.
I remember seeing these in a catalog as a kid and wanting them sooo bad. However glad I went with my Tama Swingstars. 34 years and still going strong!!
I have an early 80s swingstar kit, killer drums I’ve got a great sense of the tuning on them now, so yea dw or any of the other big brands newer kits might anyways be inherently better both sonically and visually but to me they’re just as good
At 9:30 I was thinking man this kit sounds like a Phil Collins kit. I'd love to hear "the fill" on it. And 9 seconds later you played it!!!! Nice video thanks for posting.
First time I saw these was with Billy Cobham and he did a single 128th run across the way across the toms ; I about fell over he had so much power. I’m told the original mounts put them up very high and we’re a pain to play, so the rack was definitely a step in the right direction. They sounded good in the day, but they just looked really strange. Thanks for posting and adding the information on the spring loaded spurs…a new one on me.
If I had my own transportation (a VAN) I would own a North kit. I love that black North kit. And I LOVE how you mic'ed it, you made them sound so good... for that sound quality this has become my favorite episode in your channel, hands down! 🤘
Everything you have sounds great, no matter how it looks! You make things sound awesome! I love the songs you pick to do the demo, you always pick the appropriate song for the Drums!
The tone is good. I had a friend that owned those many years ago, and when I was up front watching his band, the toms were just too loud aiming right at the crowd. Overpowered everything.
@@djentlover those drums were made for club gigs in the 70's when the toms were never miked - they are megaphones pointed right at your ears. They are crazy loud. It's like putting you ear right up against the kick drum. The drummer in my band in high school bought a used set, and his parents made him return them after less than a week for a conventional kit.
What a great video, thank you. I have owned a double kick set of white North since they came out. It's been a long love hate relationship and I really enjoyed seeing and hear you play yours, thank you!
This is exactly the kind of weird shit that would come through when I worked at a Sam Ash. Wish they paid their employees enough for them to dust their drum kits ;)
Hi David I wanted to let you know I just watched this video and have now spent the last 30 minutes learning that Tom grove. Thanks for the awesome content and the practice inspiration
I had a set of these in white. Double bass. 6 mounted toms (6,8,10,10,12,12 iirc). I might have played the whole kit out once, mostly played just a single rack. Used to nest them inside each other for transport (scratches didn't show up so much on white :) ). They also had a vinyl lip around the openings. Definitely a conversation starter but as I started getting into more jazz/blues kit playing it just wasn't a good fit. After collecting dust for years I finally put them up on Craigslist where it was bought by a record producer...in Greece. Shipping them was...fun. As others noted very loud, very dead sound.
Felicitaciones por reivindicar los micrófonos en un mundo donde el plugin parece haber desecho la capacidad de los músicos. Tu set no solo suena exelente sino que tambien su sonido es único y eso es impresionante. Saludos
Man I am glad that you uploaded this. I can never find a reasonable quality recording of these kinds of kits. Sadly, as much as I always wanted to like these kits, they always wind up sounding like someone strapped drum heads to pvc pipes. Despite the wide open bottoms, these drums just don't seem to resonate well. Still, with good tuning and micing, I can see these used for a live show if the drummer wants to be a little more flashy. But I definitely would not record with these, nor would I want to use them as my main kit. Still, they do sound pretty good here for what they are. Great job putting this vid and audio together and thanks for the content!
right before he played the phill collins fill i was thinking to myself, "imagine playing the fill on a 7 piece, that would sound great." then just after that he did it lol
Wow!! Those Tom's sound sooooo fantastic. years of fighting with my set to get "that sound" and there you have it!! Strange looking indeed, but wow what sound!
I really like when you put the captions of your thoughts as the drums are playing. I’m usually keyed into or paying attention to something different and it’s interesting to hear a different perspective real-time. I’d like even more of those, as well as a final thoughts about a review of the drum set, maybe even a rating system and or best genre setting..
I like your demonstration on the North drum kit. You always struck me as a pocket drummer and I appreciate you making the effort to get the arena effect Is anthem heavy drumming going. And is always great music on your videos.
I had a guitarist roommate who's drummer had a North kit. They were set up in our basement. So I had the pleasure of playing on these drums! They were an awesome sounding kit! If I am not mistaken, Bill Bruford played North Drums with Yes, Possibly on the tour that he later left the band.
We used to march in a national champion drum corps with North drum toms. Awesome toms! Long Island Sunrisers Drum & Bugle Corps. DCA percussion champs 77,78,79,81,82,83
They are actually horn-loaded, with the flaring out, and also curved to project forwards. Horn loading increaes volume, as it allows,a sound wavefront to expand sideways more efficiently than when a sound suddenly escapes a parallel sided container, this is the principle used in horn loaded spwaker cabinets. A few North Kits were sold in the UK, but drummers in the UK should note there is a similar brand from the same era called Staccato, the difference being the front orifice had a different shape from round, and the bass drum was bizarre anx huge, with two front orifices and a shape like a giant pair of shorts. Do a google search, and you'll see what I mean. There are still a few of these vintage kits around, so you might find one. The only drummer i saw using one was with Bow Wow Wow in the mid 1980s, i understand he also played with Adam and the Ants. A pretty hot and dynamic drummer, too. I long ago had three odd Staccato toms, 6, 8, 10 heads, i used them in a standup percussion rack for a time. And they did lookcool.
I honestly feel like this is your best sample track and playing I've heard from you yet! Also the drums sound so good, nice job on the gate & reverb. 🅰️👍➕
I'm of an age that when this set was released as the new innovation in percussion, I nearly purchased it as new but, for ease of transit and storage, went with another innovation at the time, Ludwig 18 kick, black beauty super sensitive, paste cymbals and a fab set of root to ms!
LOL! I remember when these came out, I was in my first year of drum lessons around 1981ish. I always thought they sounded pretty horrible, but you actually have them sounding really good.
Friend of mine who played in a prog band back in the late 70s had a set of these. He was more of a Bill Bruford-type drummer -- not real heavy-handed -- and they always sounded great when he played. His were red if I remember correctly. One of the advantages of them was that in a smaller venue you didn't have to mic the toms to get a decent sound. Their practice room was in his house, and I still have a demo tape that they recorded there. The drums sounded fantastic for a simple 4-track recording.
Very cool, I did have the Thunder Horn set black outside and white inside. It came from a band back when i was 16 years ild. Im now 54 and It was a disco set lol. Tama was , in Dbl base hard and heavy
I had a set of North's the year they came out in canary yellow. They sound great and don't need mics unless you are playing a pretty large sized gig. I think acrylic and fiberglass drums sound awesome! My favorite set of all time was a set of Pearl clear acrylic with black hardware, amazing sound, and simply a thing of beauty!🥰🥰
Whoa! That kit sounds great! Almost like a Phil Collins type of sound. The first song to play on this "She's an Easy Lover" for sure. Cheers from an old Las Vegas drummer!!
My first drum set was a set of North drums, just like these. Same colour even. Although my rack was different. Instead of the straight legs, they curved down from the tom mount piece towards the front, and came back towards the drummer. They are amazing sounding drums. Wish I still had them, but my parents had other plans.
What the first song you would play on this kit? 🥁
Orion by Metallica lmao
we are the champions by queen
Definitely the most 80's Tom fill I can think of 🤣
Something off Bleach?
"Lashed to the slave stick" Nile!!!
Thanks to wade, I am here
Me too
Me three
dankpods? cuz he sent me here
@@sketchydrumchannelph yes, the guys name is wade
Yes he sent me from hell to here
Wow! At first I thought you really bought the weirdest, crappiest old drum kit ever but after you worked your magic I was blown away and fell in love it. Awesome drum playing too!
honestly the show factor of these make them super cool. you show up to a gig playing these they gonna remeber!
You can check out the swedish band The Ark that are really good and the drummer in the band played these kind of drums for awhile.
Remeber. Yup 😄
sus
Chad Channing used these drums in the late 80s for Nirvana
I CAN NEVER REMEBER
Man, one of the big sampling houses should find one of these and sample the shit out of it, such a unique sound.
Totally agree with you, from the perspective of programing percussion, it's very cool to find a sample set of something more left-field and it would benefit people playing electronic kits possibly; I've never tried the latter.
To be fair a lot of the reason rdavidr 's drums sound great in his video is the $$$$ mics he's using. I've heard North Drums in person a few times and they do sound unique and LOUD but they have a rather thin sound and not as warm and rich as this video.
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That's like, the perfect tom sound 😭
True! but can we achieve that with concert toms because these things are ridiculous 🤣
you would love concert toms then! super easy to try by just removing the reso heads
They all sound the same tho.
If only concert toms sounded like that
It’s a very satisfying noise i miss been on the drums.
Coming from Dankpods, this is awesome!
Technically we're coming from "The Drum Thing" but it's still pretty Dank :D
Same
Can't wait to Bing watch this guy!
I'm here too from there.
Honestly… I was a bit skeptical about this one when I clicked on it.. but I just kept having to watch it. That kit actually sounded fantastic! I was pretty impressed with how cool it sounded. Definitely a kit to save for an 80s cover band night. Lol! Thanks for the fun video!
I was skeptical too. He proved me wrong.
A bit of a hollow tone but I bet the projection is great. I would love to hear it with microphones set up a bit further from the openings. The drums are probably more for live performance than a studio.
Tue, true. Each tom tom had a distinctively lower sound than the one before it.
Aside from electronic drums, the big players in the drum industry market have turned a snob nose to alot of different and innovative percussion ideas which center around the traditional drumset. It's lame they'd focus their attention on petty and useless theories like 20 different ways just to mount a rack tom, when something like this kit sounds great. I know from experience trying to introduce new ideas and upgrades to hardware/shells which actually function better and weigh less while sounding good.
This kicked all the ass 👍👍
Also here from Dankpods/"The Drum Thing", lol.
This is my favourite drum sound out of all the drums you've had on this channel!
@Qefna Ija shut up
That's the way single head kits should all sound !!! :D
Man I love your drumming. The fills at 9:45 is so good...
You can see how happy he is every time he gets to play a fill
Wade needs to get his fixed because these sound amazing.
Great work!
I heard these drums back in the 80's when they were new. They sound great, even without mics. They are very loud and cut right through.
Actually, North drums go back to the 70's.......................I specifically remember Alan White of Yes (he recently passed away, RIP Alan) using North drums for the 1976/1977 Yes tours, and the Blue Devils (DCI world champion drums corps) used them in 1976 and 1986 - I'm sure there were many other people using them as well at that time. They were kinda trendy in the 70's but their popularity faded in the 1980's. The unique visual look of North drums also prompted other companies like Slingerland (and later on Ludwig and Yamaha) to create the 'cutaway' look of marching tenor drums - a design element that is pretty much standard on today's marching tenors. Gotta admit though, these ARE cool sounding drums!!
Billy Cobham was one. Staccato in the UK copied the idea.
I believe I also remember Dave Barbarossa using a similar kit When he was in Bow Wow Wow.
@@jons2614 Yes ! BD from Concord California, I marched in 76 and they kicked arse.
@@jons2614 ackshually
Cool find, David. This brings back some great memories for me. I was lead singer in a band as a freshman back in high school where our "drummer" had a yellow North kit just like that one. However, the guy was a terrible drummer who couldn't play any of the songs, so I ended up playing his drums while singing lead vocals just so we could get through all of the songs. This of course led me to buying my own set of Tama Swingstar drums (which was black with 2 bass drums, 4 rack toms, and a floor tom), starting me down my drumming road. So because of this, North drums are kind of near & dear to my heart.
Phil collins has entered the chat. I love unique drums like these. They stand out where so many other kits just look like each other, and therefore sound and inspire you to play the same as each other. These are funky and powerful and draw something out of the player.
Alan white has entered the chat*
That’s what I thought too! I loved the first piece he played. Reminded me of Collins’ and Phillip Bailey
@@alexlawrence9205 my thoughts exactly 💯 ...
Also Billy Cobham
Years ago I saw one of these kits in the window of a second hand store. I went in and looked at them, and looked at them, and looked at them some more, then walked away. About a week later I went and looked at them again, and walked away. That's been 20 years ago and they still cross my mind every so often. That was the only time I ever saw any. Yesterday they crossed my mind again. Then today this video shows up on my feed... just shaking my head... Thanks for the great vids. Keep up the good work.
😂wow
I've sold and shipped one of these which was nuts. I loved the end when you played it with a china and an 87 Rocky 3 vibe 😂
Here for the GOAT again thanks to The Drum Thing
Saw Gerry Brown play these on the Return to Forever "Musicmagic" tour ... incredible looks and sound at the Palladium in NY ... May 20, 1977 ...
#jealous. I would kill to see RTF back then
Those toms sound fantastic!
I was really surprised tbh
THAT ONE IS AWESOME AND SOUNDS AWESOME: REALLY CREATIVE, BEAUTIFUL AND SCIENTIFICALLY ACURATE (HORNS LIKE).
Absolutely killer kit, and those wingnuts? They are Premier! When they first introduced that mounting system it was so good you would see drums of a different brand with their mounting system!
Oh I just commented that! Then saw your comment! Snap! Love vintage Premier drums :-)
Haha that explains it! I was thinking that those wingnuts were normal. I play a vintage premier kit
@@ownenlikeaboss Know what you mean! Bought some couple weeks back absolutely awesome drums 😎
I thought I recognised them, I use vintage premier lockfast stands and they have them on the bottom!
I always wanted to own a North drum set. They’ve always looked so cool to me. Chad Channing is the drummer who got me into the look when I was still in primary school, watching Nirvana’s With The Lights Out dvd when the box set first came out. So glad to see you post a video testing a kit out!
surprised more people haven't mentioned this. I always thought of it at the Chad Channing kit
@@67to94 yes same.
He recorded Bleach on a North Kit if i’m right ?
Love how musical his playing is; not playing the drums, playing a song! So refreshing to hear someone that doesn’t just vomit push pull chops.
What's push pull chops?
@@xyanide1986 same question
@@xyanide1986 It's when people play super complex drums fills, but they are not following the pulsation so their tempo is all over the place, pushing and pulling back like a beginner.
@@vetlerradio ok yeah i getcha now
@@xyanide1986 push/pull is actually a style of stroke where you use the rebound of the head/cymbal to perform double stokes, which is what the original commenter is referencing. velterradio is referencing rushing/dragging which is essentially falling off tempo.
My uncle had a north kit back in the 80s and I just remembered how fat the Tom's sounded and this video just brought back that memory.. those drums sound incredible man..
Cool drums. Been loving your channel since the $20 drum kit. Always entertaining, informative and enjoyable. BTW you're playing has gotten sick and you're really killing on this video. Just love those tom fills and cymbal crashes!
I would SO love to see another series like the $20 drum kit! That was the best!
Yoooo. It’s crazy how much Dave’s drumming has improved over the coarse of his channel. Great job bro!
*course
Sand is coarse.
Roger North lives in Portland, OR and still plays North drums to this day. Also, have to say this is hands down the best recorded sound of a kit I’ve seen on your channel. The track you played with is perfect for those drums.
I knew he lived here, but I didn't know he was still active.
Crazy I’m gonna look him up
Jeff kirsh is a great resource here for drummers same with rhythm traders
If you are in Pdx got check out super secret band or lost ox or Jay si proof
And his son Tye plays bass and lives in PDX!
i really like the fill you did at 9:04!
Love some North drums!! I had a huge Gibraltor rack at one time, and the fault with them is the tube design. I crushed so many tubes trying to make it where the stands and cymbals wouldn't move.
Perhaps replace the tubes with aircraft grade 4130?
Wow, these things have an absolutely fantastic sound to them.
Loved the 80s training montage track at the end, this kit sounds as insane as it looks!
I have a double bass north kit from back in the day fun to play I use other drums my north is more of a collectable
That kit sounds great! Also would love to see a full refurbish of them..
Fun to see this. There was a band in my hometown of Plano Tx circa 1983 and the drummer had this exact kit, which I think was called Projectors (the kit and the band). Anyway, it did not make a big impression on the drumming world at the time, and I am thankful that you have resurrected a semi-horrible but also somewhat cool kit from the graveyard.
I’m shocked at how good that kit sounds😂
I have some North Drums. They are pretty valuable in the vintage market
This is from an era where musicians put on a visual show equally as a musical one by using unique instruments. I say that kit is an awesome piece of history!
DAMN this thing sounds better than i was expecting! dem tom soundz doe 😦 love when you can really hear that tone of what you tuned your toms to, almost like the toms “sing” a bit more than closed shell toms, and that shape really projects that sound! i’d love to hear these in person and get a lil seat time behind this kit myself! awesome!
A drummer i used to play with had Gibraltar rack. He was constantly struggling with moving toms because round right. So he bought a square rack from some other brand, worked a charm
I don't understand who thought that using round pipe would be a good idea for this application
@@djentlover Me either. I bought a Pearl ICON rack years ago, and loved it. It was expensive, especially with all the extra mounting hardware, but nothing ever moved.
Ole Mate Dank dun sent us. Great vid lad.
I remember seeing these in a catalog as a kid and wanting them sooo bad. However glad I went with my Tama Swingstars. 34 years and still going strong!!
I had a swing star kit from craigs list, amazing kit! my only one so i dont have anything else to go off of, but yeah
I have an early 80s swingstar kit, killer drums
I’ve got a great sense of the tuning on them now, so yea dw or any of the other big brands newer kits might anyways be inherently better both sonically and visually but to me they’re just as good
Magic! Another great track and awesome sounding drums with someone who actually knows how to showcase the sounds we want to hear.
8:46 is when he starts playing
At 9:30 I was thinking man this kit sounds like a Phil Collins kit. I'd love to hear "the fill" on it. And 9 seconds later you played it!!!! Nice video thanks for posting.
They actually sound great!
Had a set of these back in the 80's. Fun to play. Had a set of roto-toms to go with it. Great sound!!
i kinda love the kitt. and your drumfills are tasty AF
any fill on a 7 piece sounds good tbh haha
First time I saw these was with Billy Cobham and he did a single 128th run across the way across the toms ; I about fell over he had so much power. I’m told the original mounts put them up very high and we’re a pain to play, so the rack was definitely a step in the right direction. They sounded good in the day, but they just looked really strange. Thanks for posting and adding the information on the spring loaded spurs…a new one on me.
If I had my own transportation (a VAN)
I would own a North kit.
I love that black North kit.
And I LOVE how you mic'ed it,
you made them sound so good...
for that sound quality this has
become my favorite episode in
your channel, hands down! 🤘
Everything you have sounds great, no matter how it looks! You make things sound awesome! I love the songs you pick to do the demo, you always pick the appropriate song for the Drums!
the channel The Drum Thing linked us to this video, it's fantastic
Dude that was some crazy awesome playing! Loved every second of it! Great video! The drums sound great!
The tone is good. I had a friend that owned those many years ago, and when I was up front watching his band, the toms were just too loud aiming right at the crowd. Overpowered everything.
It's hard to imagine toms overpowering everything
@@djentlover They were brutally loud.
@@djentlover those drums were made for club gigs in the 70's when the toms were never miked - they are megaphones pointed right at your ears. They are crazy loud. It's like putting you ear right up against the kick drum. The drummer in my band in high school bought a used set, and his parents made him return them after less than a week for a conventional kit.
Wow, I love the sound of the kit at the end of the video. Great chops, too!
Danky boys
I was so happy to see him mention RDavidR and even shout him out lol
arm the nug
What a great video, thank you. I have owned a double kick set of white North since they came out. It's been a long love hate relationship and I really enjoyed seeing and hear you play yours, thank you!
This is exactly the kind of weird shit that would come through when I worked at a Sam Ash. Wish they paid their employees enough for them to dust their drum kits ;)
That's some awesome playing man, great kit as well. These have a sound you don't hear in music often anymore, has 70s hair metal vibes.
im in love with the sound of these drums and the music you used, oh boy !
Hi David I wanted to let you know I just watched this video and have now spent the last 30 minutes learning that Tom grove. Thanks for the awesome content and the practice inspiration
Used to LOVE North drums.....remember when they first came out and a friend tried them....GADZ!!! They filled the shop with sound!!!
I had a set of these in white. Double bass. 6 mounted toms (6,8,10,10,12,12 iirc). I might have played the whole kit out once, mostly played just a single rack. Used to nest them inside each other for transport (scratches didn't show up so much on white :) ). They also had a vinyl lip around the openings. Definitely a conversation starter but as I started getting into more jazz/blues kit playing it just wasn't a good fit. After collecting dust for years I finally put them up on Craigslist where it was bought by a record producer...in Greece. Shipping them was...fun. As others noted very loud, very dead sound.
Felicitaciones por reivindicar los micrófonos en un mundo donde el plugin parece haber desecho la capacidad de los músicos. Tu set no solo suena exelente sino que tambien su sonido es único y eso es impresionante. Saludos
Nice playing! This video is great, and the drums sound fantastic. I have always wanted one of these kits.
Man I am glad that you uploaded this. I can never find a reasonable quality recording of these kinds of kits. Sadly, as much as I always wanted to like these kits, they always wind up sounding like someone strapped drum heads to pvc pipes. Despite the wide open bottoms, these drums just don't seem to resonate well. Still, with good tuning and micing, I can see these used for a live show if the drummer wants to be a little more flashy. But I definitely would not record with these, nor would I want to use them as my main kit. Still, they do sound pretty good here for what they are. Great job putting this vid and audio together and thanks for the content!
right before he played the phill collins fill i was thinking to myself, "imagine playing the fill on a 7 piece, that would sound great." then just after that he did it lol
That kit sounds amazing! Wow I wasn’t expecting that. Would love to get samples of it. 😎
Here from the drum thing, this may be the coolest drum set I've ever seen, and it sounds so cool, I love it .
Wow!! Those Tom's sound sooooo fantastic. years of fighting with my set to get "that sound" and there you have it!! Strange looking indeed, but wow what sound!
I really like when you put the captions of your thoughts as the drums are playing. I’m usually keyed into or paying attention to something different and it’s interesting to hear a different perspective real-time. I’d like even more of those, as well as a final thoughts about a review of the drum set, maybe even a rating system and or best genre setting..
I love when you do the break from in the air tonight. I can’t play drums but you are definitely one a roll pun intended.
I like your demonstration on the North drum kit. You always struck me as a pocket drummer and I appreciate you making the effort to get the arena effect Is anthem heavy drumming going. And is always great music on your videos.
Wow that employee seems super dope, someone give that guy a raise
Dude this has that perfect drum/quad marching/band 80's Miami Vice Bossa Nova sound I'm looking for, Classic , I love them...
I had a guitarist roommate who's drummer had a North kit. They were set up in our basement. So I had the pleasure of playing on these drums! They were an awesome sounding kit! If I am not mistaken, Bill Bruford played North Drums with Yes, Possibly on the tour that he later left the band.
Dave your playing has come such a long way. Really cool watching you rage on this thing!
This is your best sounding kit to date
We used to march in a national champion drum corps with North drum toms. Awesome toms! Long Island Sunrisers Drum & Bugle Corps. DCA percussion champs 77,78,79,81,82,83
That is soooo cool. Color me jealous. This and the roto-tom kit made my week.
I've had THE SAME Lego ambulance kit! Thanks for the memory!
Those toms have an absolutely incredible 80's synth sound. Would love a kit like this.
Love your videos dude .. as a life long drummer and owner of currently 7 kit's I love your passion and content.. Nice work 👍
15 or 20 years ago, at the drum shop, in portland maine, there was a baby blue drum kit just like that always there, like for years!
They are actually horn-loaded, with the flaring out, and also curved to project forwards.
Horn loading increaes volume, as it allows,a sound wavefront to expand sideways more efficiently than when a sound suddenly escapes a parallel sided container, this is the principle used in horn loaded spwaker cabinets.
A few North Kits were sold in the UK, but drummers in the UK should note there is a similar brand from the same era called Staccato, the difference being the front orifice had a different shape from round, and the bass drum was bizarre anx huge, with two front orifices and a shape like a giant pair of shorts.
Do a google search, and you'll see what I mean. There are still a few of these vintage kits around, so you might find one.
The only drummer i saw using one was with Bow Wow Wow in the mid 1980s, i understand he also played with Adam and the Ants. A pretty hot and dynamic drummer, too.
I long ago had three odd Staccato toms, 6, 8, 10 heads, i used them in a standup percussion rack for a time. And they did lookcool.
I honestly feel like this is your best sample track and playing I've heard from you yet! Also the drums sound so good, nice job on the gate & reverb. 🅰️👍➕
I'm of an age that when this set was released as the new innovation in percussion, I nearly purchased it as new but, for ease of transit and storage, went with another innovation at the time, Ludwig 18 kick, black beauty super sensitive, paste cymbals and a fab set of root to ms!
Love those North drums, and you tuned them really nicely. I have a set of 8-10-12 marching North Trios from my drum corps days. Really cool drums.
LOL! I remember when these came out, I was in my first year of drum lessons around 1981ish. I always thought they sounded pretty horrible, but you actually have them sounding really good.
Friend of mine who played in a prog band back in the late 70s had a set of these. He was more of a Bill Bruford-type drummer -- not real heavy-handed -- and they always sounded great when he played. His were red if I remember correctly. One of the advantages of them was that in a smaller venue you didn't have to mic the toms to get a decent sound. Their practice room was in his house, and I still have a demo tape that they recorded there. The drums sounded fantastic for a simple 4-track recording.
I remember North Drums in the 70's. My local drum shop had a white kit set up on the showroom floor. Cool.
Very cool, I did have the Thunder Horn set black outside and white inside. It came from a band back when i was 16 years ild. Im now 54 and It was a disco set lol. Tama was , in Dbl base hard and heavy
I had a set of North's the year they came out in canary yellow. They sound great and don't need mics unless you are playing a pretty large sized gig. I think acrylic and fiberglass drums sound awesome! My favorite set of all time was a set of Pearl clear acrylic with black hardware, amazing sound, and simply a thing of beauty!🥰🥰
Sounds awesome with this play along good choice of music shows the kit off well!! Superb drumming man!!
That was all around pretty cool! Those concert toms (if you could call them that) had a nice tone once u put the new heads on.
Whoa! That kit sounds great! Almost like a Phil Collins type of sound. The first song to play on this "She's an Easy Lover" for sure. Cheers from an old Las Vegas drummer!!
That was fun, thanks. I had the poster of this kit on my wall in collage. I think it was from modern drummer magazine.
My first drum set was a set of North drums, just like these. Same colour even. Although my rack was different. Instead of the straight legs, they curved down from the tom mount piece towards the front, and came back towards the drummer. They are amazing sounding drums. Wish I still had them, but my parents had other plans.
The rock band Yes had drums like these at a 1970's concert...(excellent show!). They also had a laser light system used in the show.