At the next Anniversary Party I pointed out to Johnny that I was using the drums he lent to me. My band played at the Tonight Show Anniversary Parties each year that Johnny Carson would throw for the staff after each Anniversary Show. But the one thing that stood out on this drum set was the "BR" logo on the bass drum head. When I picked them off the drum there was a rust stain on the head from where the brushes were (that stain is still there today). A set of brushes laid upon one of the floor toms. The chrome rims and stands were pitted from the salt air and the brass cymbals were as green as the Statue of Liberty. The salty beach air ate away at the drum set over the years.
Johnny had them prominently displayed in his living room near a sliding glass window overlooking the beach. I went out to Johnny's house on Pacific Coast Highway and picked up the drums. This was the drum set Johnny was offering to me. After the show, Buddy had the drum set sent over to Johnny's house. As beautiful as it was, it sounded like the cardboard boxes it came in. I watched them take this pristine set out of the boxes and set it for Buddy without tuning the heads. I remembered a set of drums that the Ludwig Drum Company brought to the Tonight Show on one of Buddy's appearances. Johnny had heard of the theft of my drums and offered me a set of drums he had out at his beach house in Malibu. equipment, microphones, music stands, mic stands, cables and the Slingerland drum set I had boasted to Buddy Rich about two nights before.Ī few days after my loss I ran into Johnny Carson as he was coming into work at NBC. Sunday morning I came out to find my truck had been broken in to and all of my band equipment had been stolen.
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Saturday I did my gig and was too tired to unload my truck full of equipment that night and planned to unload it in the morning.
I told him I had a gig Saturday night, but that I would be there on Sunday. Buddy was appearing Saturday and Sunday with Frank Sinatra that weekend at the Universal Amphitheatre and invited me to drop by backstage and see the show. Buddy thought he owned these drums in the 1930s and bought them back. Although Buddy had an endorsement deal with Ludwig Drums, he told me he had just obtained a set of vintage Slingerland Radio Kings (made in 1934). I owned a set of Slingerland drums I had since 1966. One of the many perks of this job was to get to work alongside and talk to greats such as Johnny Carson and Buddy Rich.īuddy and I were both boasting about our sets of drums. 15, 1984) and I was working for my eighth year out of twenty as a Musical Production Assistant. Buddy Rich made one of his many appearances on the Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (Nov.
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