Black Sabbath’s tours always combined the heaviest of heavy metal sounds with the most outrageous spectacle possible. The kits created for Tommy Clufetos by Drum Workshop for those stores reflect that spectacular approach Although the finish of Tommy kits changed dramatically from tour to tour his basic configuration did not. Each tour kit combines a bevy of small and large single-headed concert toms with two 16 x 24 bass drums, a 10 x 14 rack tom on a snare stand, 16 x 16 and 16 x 18 floor toms, and an 8 x 14 snare drum. The black gloss kit shown here was used on the first half of Sabbath’s 13 tour and features mahogany shells. This kit is topped by a collection of nine or ten cymbals and backed by a massive gong all from the German cymbal manufacturer Meinl.

May 2022 Issue