ABWH - Roundabout (Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA 1989)

That’s one hellish big drum kit, but it was all used in the band’s music somewhere. The overhead shots of the band from my viewpoint again prove that the drummer has the best seat in the house. Somewhere around the second verse at 1’27”, Jon’s shoulders roll and sway, showing me he’s into the groove bassist Jeff Berlin and I have cooked up. If you take a leisurely scroll through the videos on this channel, you can’t fail to notice the variety of drum kits I seem to have used over the years. It even astonishes me. What was I thinking? The kits tell their own story, of reaction to changing technology, of the advent of electronics and samples, of changing music styles, of shipping costs. If you’re interested in nuts and bolts, check out Rodrigo Delaveau Swett’s run-down on my kits at From a beginner’s Olympic kit in the late 60s, to a second-hand Ludwig kit (whose metal snare drum rang out through the original Yes’ ‘Roundabout’), passing through Ivor Ar