Slingerland Radio King snare

The "Radio King" snare drum was one manufactured by Slingerland Drum Company between 1936 and 1957, and briefly in the 1960s. Phil Collins has a Slingerland Radio King vintage snare as part of his collection of snares.

Like other snares, Phil occasionally brought out the Radio King snare for recording sessions. One of which was for Lee Ritenour in 1984 for Banded Together. He remembered in an interview the snare "sounded fantastic" even when he did that session, but the drum skin became loose so it was replaced and Phil couldn't quite tune the snare the same way to get it to sound as good as it did...

Other than recording work, Phil used the Radio King snare (incorrectly branded in a report as a Ludwig Radio King, as Ludwig didn't make such drums) for the Big Band concerts in 1998.