What Drum Brand Was Bernard Purdie Playing Before Endorsing Sonor (60's-70's) Era?

What Drum Brand Was Bernard Purdie Playing Before Endorsing Sonor (60's-70's) Era?

Rob.

Dija try a bio of Purdie?

I believe he's used nearly every major brand of drums at one time or another, and some of the minor ones, too.

Good luck nailing down what he was using on a given recording, if that's what you're up to.

Yep, he's always been an endorsement whore. I don't think brand means {censored} to him. Only the deal does.

Any hints from these photos?

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Looks like Sonor from the lugs.

Or this one.

Rob.

Before he switched a few years ago, prior to that, as far back as the 60's, he endorsed Sonor.

He may have played whatever was at hand, but he was definately a Sonor endorser.

You don't seem to get the point. He's been an endorser for nearly everybody. As Cheese said, an endorsement whore. Why do you want to know? If it's to chase down what he used on a given recording you're chasing your tail anyway.

There was an interview with Purdie in a UK drum mag a few months ago. He has an autobiography coming out in the near future. Might have some decent pics of his kit(s) throughout the years (I doubt he'd go into it in the book, but you never know).

He's had that book coming out ever since he's been put on the hot seat for all of his ridiculous Beetles claims. I'll believe it when I see it on a shelf.

Between 1995 through 1999 Purdie endorsed Slingerland.

Gee,

This Bernard Purdie cat has been all over the place. Sonor, Slingerland(DW?).

Wow.

Rob G..

P.S.: Any other brands?

{censored}, I'd be an endorsement whore as well... Hopping from brand to brand untill they stop giving me free stuff... Really, the only way I would stay with one brand was if they gave me a signature whatever... I'd prefer a sig. rack tom, yea, thats it! The D. Carroll rack tom, in a really obscure finish... maybe borrow spare human flesh from T. Hofman... Yea, flesh.

The problem with most endorsement whores is that nobody takes their endorsement seriously. So the more you switch, the less you're gonna get. Rich was an endorsement whore, but his notoriety kept him out front. He signed endorsement deals because he was paid. I've read accounts of 50-75k a year. When they stopped paying him, he was without a deal. He turned down a deal with Ludwig that would have provided him and his entire band with free instruments because Ludwig told him they refused to pay him anymore.

Then you have the guys who endorsed one brand and stayed there all of their career. They get free {censored} too. Or Ringo? Never had an endorsement deal with Ludwig until recent years. Even though he was responsible for selling more drums than any endorsee in the business. He just liked their drums. After the first kit, Ludwig reimbursed the dealers for his kits when they were given to him for free, even though he had no deal with them.