Ya thats a BIT overkill......LoLoLoLo

Now THAT's marketing know-how. Take a couple of marching drums purchased for next to nothing at a school clearance, throw on some after-market hardware and add a couple of floor toms. Call it a beefed up Zep kit and charge an arm and a leg.

Gotta love it. Whether you believe it was P.T. Barnum or David Hannum that first said it, it's as true today as it was when it was first uttered.

SO. when he pulled up to the drive thru window he told them to SUPER SIZE IT, PLEASE!!Mind Blowi

I've had an idea for a long time that came from looking at Chick Webb's setup:

Take a huge kick like that 36", and make a horizontal bar across the drum so that a pedal could mount about a foot higher than the hoop where it normally goes. The pedal beater would then hit dead center on the 36" kick. Kinda the opposite of those "floor tom used as a kick" risers.

Your stool, snare and hi hat would have to go up a foot too.

If the drummer was extra tall it could look pretty unusual.

What started this was that I never liked how the beater hit too near the edge when you got into larger bass drums. And I always wondered if this was how Chick's drum apparatus was designed.