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Sibi's Siebert Simmons Electronic Drum Gig with legendary 28 year old SIMMONS SDS V analog drums.

The sounds you hear are original analog, created by two Simmons SDS V Electronic Brains built in way back in 1981.
His last show with this unique instrument was in 1984!
He also played it in his band Twelve Drummers Drumming (www.12dd.de) As clinician he toured all over the world.
Together with Bill Bruford of King Crimson/YES Sibi performed at many music trade shows such as NAMM USA and Musik Messe Frankfurt. Sibi also supported Ed Man and Chad Wackerman of the legendary Frank Zappa Band at the Reagan Club in munich.
In 2008, his friend Alex Muehlbauer (PPC Music Hannover) convinced Sibi to do a Simmons Clinic at his famous Drum Night in his Store in Hannover august 29th 2008.
This was a real flashback for both, Alex and Sibi and many other visitors, Sibi did the ever first clinic for simmons drums way back in 1981, at Alex's store in munich.
The video is done during a drumfestival in october 2008 in Luwigsburg Germany, the sound is not that good but more vids will follow soon.

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[yahyahmedia]

Sibi, altes Haus :-) Hier ist Atti, Dein alter (Amptown-)Kunde und Trommler-Kollege.

Schön Dich wieder in Action zu sehen!!!

Simmons war eh endgeil; SDS5 und SDX

sind ungeschlagen!!

Hau rein und alles Gute!!

Attila

[pauker1]

Hey Atti, das nenne ich eine Überraschung!! Hoffe es läuft alle smooth bei Dir.... Si.

[SimmonsDrums]

Hmm....first simmons?

[pauker1]

OK, first Simmons was the SDS3, but the first COMPLETE Drumset like Simmons Kit, featuring Bassdrum, Snare and Toms was the SDS V, correct?? Best Wishes Pauker

[rog197236]

Damn bro you are a very talented drummer!.Simmons kicks ass they where way ahead of thier time.Electronics of today just don't don't do justice.How old is that kit you are using and what model are they?.Bill Bruford paved the way for Simmons back in the day.Must of played the biggest Simmons kit i ever seen.Ever used Simmons SDX?.Know of any Simmons kits for sale?.Keep up the great work that you do!!!!!

Roger

[pauker1]

Kits produced in '81 or '82! SDX was great ! I played together with Bill Bruford in the 80ties at tradeshows and yes I had a SDX full set with 10 pads. Bill used two SDX's on a tour with YES (late 80ties) he used 16 (!!) Pads . BTW: Simmons Kits for sale is tough, sometimes you find some on ebay, but if I ever sell one of mine I let ya know Regards from germany, Pauker1 alias Sibi

[eiffe]

Nice! Want More!

[SimmonsDrums]

sdsv has a much nicer snare (more harder and stronger) than my sds 8 (for it is more subtle)

[barzoman2]

Why the Simmons company stopped producing these drums ?

it sounds great

[rog197236]

Wow built in the early 80's that just shows you Simmons was made to last.Even though i had wondered if they would work being that old stuff like dead spots in the pads etc.Yes i do have a great dvd called An Evening Of Yes Music Plus With Bruford making magic with that massive kit.Amazing how SDX sound in a live setting with such deep tone.The electronic kits they make today would they even compare to the SDX technology?.I understand they only made 250 or so SDX kits back in the day!