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The Clash: London Calling - Topper's drumsticks

Topper: Baker, my drum tech and I went down to Henrit’s on Wardour Street and there was a big silver, mirror finish Pearl kit there – I thought, I’ll have that! So, we bought it and I used that kit for the whole of the time that I was with The Clash. It was only because it had that mirror finish. It’s on all the recordings apart from Combat Rock where I used a studio Ludwig kit – but I did every tour with that Pearl mirror kit – same one!

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