Equipment
Blade primarily uses vintage Gretsch drums, but has been known to tour with a Canopus Club Kit in Japan. His primary Gretsch kit for many years was a silver sparkle 1960s Round Badge in a "Progressive Jazz" configuration, but included an extremely rare 16" diameter bass drum. Only a handful were made in the 60s. In the mid 2000s he acquired another exceedingly rare kit - a Cadillac green nitron, Birdland house kit built in the 1950s. This kit included a more traditional Progressive Jazz 20" diameter bass drum and is arguably one of the rarest vintage drum sets in existence.
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