LouRider Custom Drum Kit: The "Cloud Nine" kit

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http://www.lourider.net/loupics.html
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CloudNine
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Drumsets & Drums
Hardware
Lourider

While on our trip out at the NAMM Show 2008, we found many very interesting innovations throughout the convention as a whole. While walking from one booth to another, we came across Orange County Drums and Percussion (OCDP), their staff greeted us with a head-turning main-display that would grab anyone's attention. This Green Candy-colored kit with what looked like a bicycle built into it was getting a great response from all visiting bystanders. This masterpiece was was thought of and created by Lou Dog, drummer for the Kottonmouth Kings. In collaboration with OCDP, Fonzy the Airbrush and Tattoo Artist and many others, Lou Dog came to create a real piece of engineering and musical art.


The "Cloud Nine" kit featured a NAMM was both a research project, and a mechanical feat in itself. Lou Dog was in the works of creating his ninth Kottonmouth Kings drum-trike, and wanted something different. He was sitting at home and was studying pictures of the 1933 Rolls Royce Phantom, and the idea of the "Cloud Nine" just simply came to him. Lou wanted to create a drum-trike that was "classy with an edge" and had to "keep it gangsta". With customizations to the trike, he was able to fit the drum configuration he wanted.


This is how the concept started, a 1973 Schwinn Town and Country-Trike:

 

After body work and ready for paint:

 

Custom Graphics base-coat paint job by "Fonzy"

 

Thermal Reactive Green Candy paint:

 


 


Lou Dog has been playing and building drum sets for a long time, and has been building custom low rider bikes for even longer. Given the creativity of being a drummer and a custom bike builder, he had the idea to attach drums and percussion to the handlebars of his 1964 Schwinn trike. Years later he has built many of these "drum-trikes" Including the Chronic Green Machine, Heaven is a Third Wheel, Two for one Special, High as a Kite, Deep as the Ocean, Sponge Bob, Underwater Sunset, High of the Glass, as well as the most current and popular, "Cloud Nine" kit.(pictured) No two ways about it, Lou has created some great innovations in his time."

 

The finished product:

We hope to see more Lourider creations in the future!

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