In 1983, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers were on a roll. They’d been steadily cracking out gold and platinum albums and racking up hits with songs like “Breakdown,” American Girl,” “The Waiting,” “Don’t Do Me Like That,” and “Refugee.” The band was touring constantly and packing stadiums all over the world. This constant touring inspired Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch to design a new drum kit. He hooked up with Joe Hibbs, Tama artist relations manager at the time, to design the set. They decided to create a set inspired by the Ludwig silver sparkle set that Mitch Mitchell played with The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Silver sparkle was not a finish that Tama offered at the time, so the finish had to be sourced from another drum company. This is the only Imperialstar drum set in silver sparkle finish that Tama ever made. Mitch Mitchell’s Ludwig set had one mounted tom […]