Premier Natural Birch custom kit

The Premier Soundwave cream-finished custom drum kit is one of several drum kits played by Phil Collins during his career. This kit differs to others in that it has a 22-inch bass drum, rather than a 20" that Phil normally uses.

Phil first played this drum kit on the ...And Then There Were Three tour in 1978, when this kit had eight Elite series single-headed concert tom-toms (see Specs section). After the tour, however, all eight concert toms were converted to Soundwave-type double-headed toms.

The first album he recorded on the new double-headed kit was the Duke album. He used it for some songs, while on others he used his usual Premier black concert-tom kit. As both kits had eight toms, while changing between kits from song to song he'd sldo change the number of toms & sizes: to either four, six or eight and so on.

He went on to play this kit on the Duke tour with Genesis in 1980, this time with the number of toms reduced to six (removing the 13" and 15" rack toms). He regularly used the double-headed kit for recording work with John Martyn, as Phil felt its "leathery" sound suited John's mellow music.

Specs
Drums:
 * 22" bass drum
 * 8" rack tom
 * 10" rack tom
 * 12" rack tom
 * 13" rack tom
 * 14" rack tom
 * 15" rack tom
 * 16" floor tom
 * 18" floor tom