Depeche Mode's 'Devotional' drum kit back on the market
(Picture by Bernard Van Isacker) - If you follow us
on Facebook or on
Twitter you might have read last week that we got info that the
Depeche Mode's 'Devotional'
drum kit would be put back on
the market. It has now been confirmed by the Recoil headquarters. Apparently the winner of the kit who secured it
at a ridiculously low bargain price at auction recently has simply gone missing. The drum kit is therefore coming back on the market!
The set spent 14 months on the road with Depeche Mode in '93 and '94 and was also featured in Anton Corbijn's live film of Depeche Mode's "Devotional". The drums were also used in Wilder's studio in
recording sessions for all the Recoil albums since "Unsound Methods". For the fans, it includes two very large 'DM embossed' Bulldog flight cases as used during the tour and a drum stool.
The full drum kit will be up for sale again very soon. If you would like to make a (sensible) offer, contact
auction@recoil.co.uk This option will only be available for a short time, after which the kit will be featured at eBay. Watch it in action
right here or after the jump.
If interested, you might already want to grab
some Alan Wilder drumsticks and gloves right here on eBay. And here is
some more stuff from Alan Wilder that has hit eBay.
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Depeche Mode bioDepeche Mode will forever be '80s icons thanks to their role in helping invent synth-pop as we know it. But unlike so many of their peers, they've remained both active and relevant. From their earliest days with Vince Clarke (before he left for Yaz, then Erasure), Depeche Mode took a spindly, synth-pop sound and filled it out with touches of techno, industrial, Americana and modern rock. Principal songwriter Martin Gore and his bandmates fuse classic pop songcraft with productions that keep pace with advances in music technology; lead singer Dave Gahan's dramatic delivery, meanwhile, has helped their songs of loss and redemption become pop-culture touchstones, covered by everyone from Tori Amos to Marilyn Manson. It's easy to chart the overall arc of the band's career, from its minimalist, electro-pop beginnings to the swelling pop yearning of Music for the Masses and on to the dark extravagance of albums like Violator and Exciter. But an abundance of alternate versions and remixes has produced a messy canon. For many fans, that's half the fun: Depeche Mode's B-sides make for a fascinating alternative history of these alt-rock heroes.
