“If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It” By 1979, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were starting to get somewhere. Their second album You’re Gonna Get It had earned the band a gold record and the band was preparing to record their third album. They’d booked the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and enlisted the hit-making production and engineering team of Jimmy Iovine and Shelly Yakus. Engineer Shelly Yakus knew that great records are created from the bottom up, everything starts with a great drum sound. Without a solid foundation of drums, nothing that is layered on top stands a chance. With this in mind, Yakus and Heartbreakers drummer, Stan Lynch took a trip to Westwood Music in Los Angeles to find the right drum set for the job. After spending the better part of the day testing practically every drum in the store with a variety of heads […]

April 2022 Issue