The Rig Vault
Drummers' gear, through the years
A community collection of drum setups — era by era. Document your own kit's evolution, or build the definitive gear history of a drummer you love. Every piece of gear links to where you can buy it (or find it used on Reverb).
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Ray Luzier
Korn's drummer since 2007, and before that eight years with David Lee Roth. A Pearl and Sa…
2013 – 2026 · 5 eras🥁 0Zak Starkey
Ringo Starr's son, Keith Moon's godson, and The Who's drummer from 1996 to 2025 — then fir…
1975 – 2019 · 8 eras🥁 0Thomas Lang
Austrian virtuoso famed for extreme limb independence and foot technique, a multi-award-wi…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Siros Vaziri
Swedish independent drummer who built his career through bite-size Instagram lessons and h…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Greyson Nekrutman
Young New York jazz drummer who blew up on social media recreating classic performances by…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Raja Meissner
Self-taught German metal drummer who shot to fame through Slipknot covers on Instagram, bu…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0George Kollias
Greek extreme metal drummer for Nile since 2004, celebrated for blistering single-foot bla…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Mikaela Swan
Australian rising-star drummer and artist whose high-energy, animated covers earned six-fi…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Luke Holland
Arizona drummer who turned stick-trick-laden YouTube covers into a pro career with The Wor…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Joey Jordison
Founding Slipknot drummer and nu-metal icon whose double bass, blast beats and intricate r…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0ZackGrooves
The East Carolina jazz graduate who became one of drum YouTube's funniest creators, then q…
2021 – 2026 · 2 eras🥁 0El Estepario Siberiano
Spanish drummer Jorge Garrido, one of the fastest-growing drum creators online, known for …
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Alex Rüdinger
Maryland metal drummer with an open-handed style who parlayed early YouTube covers into gi…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Anika Nilles
German drummer and composer whose viral originals like Wild Boy and Alter Ego made her a g…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Aquiles Priester
Brazilian power metal veteran best known for his years with Angra and stints with WASP, Pr…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Arin Ilejay
Californian drummer who stepped into the late Rev's role in Avenged Sevenfold, recording c…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Benny Greb
German groove master, clinician and educator behind The Language of Drumming and The Art &…
2021 – 2026 · 2 eras🥁 0Gabe Helguera
Drummer for I Prevail and founder of the Drum Beats Online tuition site, who built a self-…
2021 · 1 era🥁 0Eric Moore
Stockton, California's finest — Guitar Center Drum-Off champion, founding voice of the Gos…
2012 – 2026 · 3 eras🥁 066Samus
Samus Paulicelli — blast beats, filthy jokes and a million-plus subscribers. Ex-Decrepit B…
2021 – 2026 · 2 eras🥁 0Chris Turner
Oceans Ate Alaska's founding drummer and one of the most precise players in metal — accura…
2017 – 2026 · 2 eras🥁 0Danny Carey
Tool's polyrhythmic sorcerer and the thinking drummer's favourite drummer — 6'5" of jazz t…
1996 – 2019 · 3 eras🥁 0Lars Ulrich
Metallica's co-founder and engine room — the Danish tennis prodigy who traded rackets for …
1986 – 2023 · 3 eras🥁 0Neil Peart
Rush's Professor — the most air-drummed drummer of all time. Four decades of meticulously …
1981 – 2015 · 3 eras🥁 0John Bonham
Led Zeppelin's once-in-history drummer. The heaviest right hand and fastest right foot roc…
1969 – 1977 · 3 eras🥁 0- 👑 Rig of the Week
Travis Barker
Blink-182's tattooed engine and pop-punk's most influential drummer — marching-band chops …
1996 – 2023 · 14 eras🥁 1 Ringo Starr
The Beatle. The reason half the world's drummers started playing, and the owner of the mos…
1963 – 2019 · 3 eras🥁 0Taylor Hawkins
Foo Fighters' beloved powerhouse from 1997 until his passing in 2022 — a Roger Taylor disc…
1999 – 2021 · 2 eras🥁 0Phil Collins
Genesis drummer turned megastar — and the man behind the most famous drum fill ever record…
1973 – 1985 · 3 eras🥁 0Dave Grohl
The drummer of Nirvana before he was the frontman of Foo Fighters — one of the hardest hit…
1991 – 2009 · 3 eras🥁 0Tommy Lee
Mötley Crüe's showman — the most-searched drummer on the planet, famous as much for drummi…
1989 – 2023 · 3 eras🥁 0Chris Slade
The Welsh drummer who played on AC/DC's The Razor's Edge, and before that Tom Jones, Manfr…
1984 – 2024 · 4 eras