Premier Natural Birch custom kit

The Premier Natural Birch custom drum kit is one of many drum kits played by Phil Collins during his musical career. This kit differs to others most significantly in that it has a 22-inch bass drum, rather than a 20" that Phil normally uses.

Originally this was simply a Premier D717 outfit concert tom drum kit with single heads. Phil first played this drum kit during Brand X gigs in September 1977, with at least six concert toms and two roto-toms on the side.

Another configuration of this same kit was played by Phil with Genesis on the ...And Then There Were Three tour in 1978. This time the kit had eight concert tom-toms (see Specs section), as well as the rototoms.

Sometime after the tour, the eight concert toms were all converted to Soundwave-type double-headed toms. The first album he recorded on the newly converted kit was the Duke album, alternating between this and the Premier black concert tom kit. Both kits had eight toms, so he'd also 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