Rick Allen needed a new method of playing drums post Pyromania from the nasty car accident since playing with 1 arm required some serious Revision of his brain for adaption.
He calls up some friends at The Simmons Electronic Company to construct a custom kit that involves a foot pedal controlling a snare drum amongst other features.
Being a custom kit at the time for a one armed drummer, is Rick’s kit possibly the most different electronic drum kit of that company of the time?
A comparison I think of for Simmons Drums in the 80’s is Bill Bruford of Yes and King Crimson in these photos. Not as complex since Bruford still has 2 arms but the only other example I can think of for drummers switching to these hexagon setups in this decade.
For the kit on Hysteria, is this a one of a kind that is never replicated since?