Hello RUSH fans and drumming enthusiast. Welcome to the world of Bert Pert.

Much like the boundries of outer-space, my drumset is constantly expanding ...and I like it!

Visually simillar to Neil Peart's 1987 Hold Your Fire drumset, a white thirteen piece, double-kick, 1990 TAMA, is my tribute to Neil and all his awesome drumsets. It is completely surrounded by acoustic and eleectronic percussion. At 8' wide x 8' deep x 8' tall, this is one seriously HUGE drumset! Drum sizes and other details are as follows:

Big changes with the electronic percussion. Gone are the old Simmons pads and brain. Recently replaced with;

an Alesis DM5

a Korg X3R

one Pintech trigger

dual 8" Dauz drum padz (left side)

dual 8" Dauz drum padz (right side)

single 6" Dauz drum pad (low)

The Alesis DM5 is my main sound module used for percussion and effects. While the Korg X3R is used for horns ...trumpet, trombone and other "big band" sounds. The Pintech trigger is mounted atop a timbale and the single Dauz 6" pad is hit with a DW 5000 kick drum pedal.

In the more "traditional" percussion;
there are various bar chimes, wind chimes, a bell tree, 8" Paiste bell, four cowbells, a tambourine, a timbale, Temple blocks, a 22" gong, and a triangle.

Coming soon ...a Glockenspeil.

As for the cymbals; I'm still using Advedis Zildjian cymbals.
Except for a Chinese one made by World Percussion*.
The sizes for those, are as follows.

The hardware is mostly Tama Titan.
A few Latin Percussion multi-clamps,
some Cosmic Percussion boom arms,
and a 6' steel pipe from the local hardware store.

My hi-hat stand, and kick pedals are DW 5000's,
and my drumsticks are Vic Firth 5A's w/ nylon tip.

As for the drumheads, I use Remo.
CS white dot, on the tops of the 6", 8", 8"& 10" toms.
CS white dot, on the top of the 14"snare drum.
Powerstroke 3 white coated, on the top of the timbale.
Ambassador clears, on the tops of the 12", 13", 14", 16"& 18" toms.
Ambassador clears, on all the bottoms.
Ambassador clears, on the kick drums (batter side).
Ambassador white coated, on the kick drums (resonant side).

All of this rests atop a matching white w/ chrome drum riser. This custom riser was built by the specialist at Kiphart Kustoms. I also hand-painted the front of the kick drum heads featuring Rush's 2112 star/man images.

Thanks for taking time to check out my drum world and thank you to all who contribute and support Freewill. I will have more information including a short biography, the long over due thank you list and more photos soon.