Staccato

This is a Staccato drum kit.  A lot of bands used them in the early 70`s.  They`re made of fiberglass and looked awesome on stage.  Only trouble was that they had poor finishing around the tops of the shells so were virtually impossible to tune.  But it was OK cause you just put on your spandex jumpsuit and hit them hard enough so no one really cared.

I used two Elinchrom 250 W Flash heads, each with 60 x 60 cm softbox. I took my off-camera hot-shoe flash and mounted it onto a remote light cell that triggers when it sees the flash from one of the main lights. This was placed in the rear and facing upwards to light the rear wall. 

We bought the kit for the studio and it’s never actually been used in a recording session… but some years back, German rockers Ramstein used it for a promo video.

Originally bought with a single bass drum in yellow, we later got another bass drum in white.  Rather than physically paint the white one yellow, I painted it in Photoshop 6 to make a double kit.

EOS 5D, 35mm, f13, 1/60 sec.