Fleetwood Mac guitarist/vocalist Lindsey Buckingham required an electronic kit for his 2017 duo tour with bandmate Christine McVie, but that didn’t stop Jimmy Paxson from applying his creative vision to the Roland V-Drums he chose to use. The drummer, who in the past has turned a suitcase into a drum and fashioned mannequin hands to hold cymbals, was intent on creating a dynamic visual aesthetic. “My goal was to create what I felt would best serve the gig both sonically and aesthetically,” says Paxson. “We went with the Roland TD-50 brain, which is just unbelievable.”

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