When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Drum Expo 2013: In 1883, Friedrich Gretsch launched the Gretsch company in a modest shop in ...

These are both fine tributes to Gretsch's great heritage and they perform well, but the fact is that these drums are more than likely to end up as collectors' items. They take time to set-up and tune.

Next time you see the Rolling Stones play–or David Bowie or Alabama or Rod Stewart–notice the drums. They`re Gretsch drums, all of them made in a dusty little factory in southwest Arkansas. Gretsch ...

Reverend Horton Heat was on the road with his seminal psychobilly band in the early '90s, when the electrical controls on his guitar, a Gibson ES175, started to show their age. "We were playing 27 ...

In 1883 Friedrich Gretsch established the Gretsch musical instrument business in a small shop in Brooklyn and a heritage was born. Over the past 125 years, Gretsch Drums has blossomed to develop a ...

NME are giving Royal Blood fans the chance to win the drum kit played by drummer Ben Thatcher in their new video for ‘Typhoons’. See below for details and to enter the competition. “It’s pretty ...