Drum Kit Logos; band names and images

Such a right of passage for so many young bands, the "band name and/or icon on the kicker kit" seems to have been used voluminously by many adolescent acts posing as something far more achieved.

Is it propellant, fertilizer, or inoculate? Is it amateur?

What examples of both the lame and the plausibly sublime can be sited?

http://www.rockguitarminiatures.com/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/product_images/Beatles-Ludwig-Drum-Kit-2.jpg
http://jkrglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Drum-kit.jpg

http://www.carlolittle.com/savages/keith0009.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHLz4svsrM8

http://www.monkeesconcerts.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/_2879162.jpg?686

What drumhead? I can't see it!

http://static.musiciansfriend.com/derivates/6/001/390/196/DV019_Jpg_Regular_423883_Camouflage.jpg

my brother drums for a young artist who's parents are bankrolling/managing their shot at music stardom and its always an ordeal getting the custom drum head on to his kit before every show. once when they were opening for a bigger act (and sharing the drum kit w/ headliner's drummer) he had to explain multiple times how they couldn't just swap drum heads during a set change so they'd have to settle for playing with the headliner's drum head on stage, the parents/artist were very distraught

http://s3.amazonaws.com/drumlessonscom/00-drummers/keith-moon-1.jpg

Sam Woodyard (this is half of his live setup; his other bass drum has his name on it)

http://maison-du-duke.com/docs/Sam-Woodyard-.jpg

Sonny Greer
http://www.drummerworld.com/drummerworld/sonnygreer698.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w3BQxC3yL.jpg

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/S2pl5lywvRk/hqdefault.jpg

AH! xpost

lol, I couldn't find a clean one!

This is one of those things that irritates me when mediocre bands do it but seems awesome when great bands do it

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/sleeves/zap_beatles.jpg

sorry for huge
http://sacvs.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/000000011.jpg

I love the initials in a shield style the jazz dudes used...

http://www.vicsdrumshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Gene-Krupa2.jpg

http://www.oldhandbills.com/images/060623/Buddy_Rich.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5FJc-jOEK1w/UHOHomGa-AI/AAAAAAAACX8/JPppsAC3Y4o/s400/2.jpg

The Killers are an American rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2001, by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards) and Dave Keuning (guitar, backing vocals). Mark Stoermer (bass, backing vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums, percussion, backing vocals) would complete the current line-up of the band in late 2002. The name The Killers is derived from a logo on the bass drum of a fictitious band, portrayed in the music video for the New Order song "Crystal".

http://thehub.musiciansfriend.com/images/drumsbuying/duke-ellington-louie-bellson.jpg

I saw this in the flesh today *cough*

http://scontent-b-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/1621999_250137198493343_1046659553_n.jpg

http://www.heyreverb.com/files/2010/08/rush.jpg

love the graphics on the drum shells in that Keith Moon color pic

http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=223819&stc=1&d=1149433455

whoa, maresnest! whose set is that?

It belongs to Nick Mason of Pink Floyd, he used it on the Animals tour.

It's part of this exhibition - http://www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/

lol at the poster of the Police apparently playing with CRASS in the background?!

oh i get it. in the flesh. ha ha.

XP - Cramps I think that is

http://www.punk77.co.uk/graphics2/mc5/bandoriginal.jpg

my old band opened for David Thomas and the Pedestrians back in the 80's; Chris Cutler's drum kit was fully painted / covered with landscape scenes, in what looked like thick oil paint. wish i could find a picture of it. it was incredible. he also had what looked like ye olde goatskin or some such drumheads, adding to the otherworldly effect.

That almost sounds like Milford Graves' kit:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com//media/large/b/a/3/46eb146dcb317d3fe7fc3185bf82c.jpg

(Milford bought at least half of this setup from Tony Williams in the 60s, then repainted it)

WAY more medieval, or flemish

Ah, I see. Yeah, Milford's drums are standard-issue Gretsch (& I think some Ludwig), and I think his heads are all animal-skin; but definitely not early-20th century as Culter's sound like they could be.

they were oh so out of place onstage in the new wave disco-club ca. 1985

If anybody saw the documentary (extra) on Peart's custom drum kit, it's likely one of the most complex set-ups that's a breeze to assemble.

That Nick Mason rig is sweet -- my first guess was that it might've belonged to Bruford.

Kieth Moon kits are just about as cool as cool gets.

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/igfXqhRxIcM/hqdefault.jpg

http://static2.dmcdn.net/static/video/172/775/21577271:jpeg_preview_large.jpg?20120423160933

http://starling.rinet.ru/music/sleeves/zap_beatles.jpg

If it weren't the Beatles, that drum head could definitely be circa-1985 Cure.

Not about drum head logos per se but logos in general. Am I right in thinking that these are kind of dying out? Except in the metal scene, I guess, it seems to me that most bands don't have a recognizable logo any more that they keep from album to album and which can be easily copied onto one's schoolbag or exercise book. The typography of band names seems to change with every album. Something to do with rebranding, keeping the brand fresh, maybe?

That Beatles drum logo certainly exhibits characteristics unbranded; and, accepted, even Cure-ish. ...And the jazz and funk-ish logos seem to have the most play.... the question here is why "branding" a band for their cultural impact is the lay of the land, and why do i still fully recognize and identify with the classic logos of Van Halen and KISS.

In past, i'd've trusted more in a new ZZ Top logo than i ever would in the iconography from Interpol, Strokes, Ghostface; or whatever - cuz i already knew the product i was getting. The goddamn VH logo has consequence and "stamps" a certain level of quality, (even if it means nothing since since 1984) but a stamp is a stamp -- and the VH (or other) stamp on a kicker is still absolute classic.

More sweet logos. on drums.