Syndrum, January 1978 - Modern Drummer Magazine

Syndrum, January 1978

It started out with baseball bats. Well, actually, the whole thing was inspired by session drummer Joe Pollard’s frustration over hitting his drums with “sticks the size of baseball bats” to combat the colossal volume levels unleashed by amped-up, wattage-crazed guitarists on 1970s concert stages. Pollard’s solution was an electronic drum that could be plugged […]
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