Ringo's Bass Drum Heads " BEATLE" Logo ??

mikestop · Post by **mikestop** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:28 am

Does anyone know if all the Bass Drum heads with the "THE BEATLES" logo on them are owned by Ringo?
If not, have any of them ever turned up anywhere else? Auctions, Museums etc........

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Wed May 02, 2007 8:34 am

There's One in the Hard Rock Cafe in Beirut, not sure if it's real though, I also saw the original sheet for the "imagine" lyrics

studiotwosession · Post by **studiotwosession** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:51 am

I'm not sure if he owns even one of them. I think there were 7 produced.

dlandau · Post by **dlandau** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:22 pm

The drum head from the Ed Sullivan Show resides in Columbia, MD and was won in an auction in 1994 for $43,000. Here is a copy.
[img]http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p21/moonraker07/DSCN0588.jpg[/img]

dlandau · Post by **dlandau** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:31 pm

It is hand painted with no paste on or computer graphics. The only decal is the "Weather King".

dlandau · Post by **dlandau** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:46 pm

Excuse me for the delay. I had to find the web site. Check out beatlesuits.com. There is a lot of information there. Check out the Sgt. Pepper heads!

leftybass · Post by **leftybass** » Thu May 03, 2007 2:38 am

Yep, Russ Lease owns the Sullivan head, I've seen it up close.....very cool. Russ has many original Beatle artifacts, and a left-handed 320B from '82 if I'm not mistaken. A great guy to boot.

mikestop · Post by **mikestop** » Thu May 03, 2007 4:24 am

It's a real shame that Ringo doesn't seem to have any of the 7 that were made!

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:09 am

I wonder how much they really care about a lot of this stuff? (not to be rude, Mike).

Seems if it was out there for sale or not, and they wanted it, they could have it for a price.

tennis_nick · Post by **tennis_nick** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:28 am

But Ringo was always a miser with his money.

leesh · Post by **leesh** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:31 am

He has the drums themselves right?

leesh · Post by **leesh** » Thu May 03, 2007 11:31 am

Oops...double post.

geschwader · Post by **geschwader** » Fri May 04, 2007 12:56 am

There were four Ludwig Black Pearl kits, and the Ludwig Hollywood "Let It Be" kit. Ringo still owns all of them. However, only the tom and snare of the very first Ludwig kit remain. The Premier kit that was reported to be the one Ringo played when he joined the Beatles sold at auction years ago.

mgauction · Post by **mgauction** » Fri May 04, 2007 3:29 am

I know ay least one Beatles drum head was burned in a fire in Los Angeles in the late 70s, when he briefly lived there. I think other artifacts burned also.

500mpl · Post by **500mpl** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:52 pm

If you look at the early photos of Wings, while Denny Seiwell was on drums, you will see a set of Ringo's drums at the Macca home. As far as the logo heads, watch the opening of Let It Be and you will see Mal loading in the Hofner case and a new drum head still in plastic. These guys used this gear as tools and I doubt they really cared that much for the duplicate items.

Maybe after the fact they may have started to get the stuff back, but at the time it was just "stuff".

Regards,