Rusty Drums - UK Vintage Drum Dealer
Season 2, Episode 5, Mar 30, 2022, 03:30 PM
‘You’re not talented enough for tuba, can you play drums?’
Mark Jeffs of Rusty Drums grew up and lives near Luton in the South of England. He starting out playing drums for a local brass band as ‘he wasn’t talented enough for tuba!’
In this podcast we learn about Mark’s start in music and his studies at Trinity College of Music and the Academy of Contemporary Music as well as getting into the history of the incredible vintage drum business he now runs.
Rusty Drums’ first stock was bought in from America in a shipping container with a load of car parts and the shop grew from 40 kits and 200 snare drums crammed into his garden shed; to opening a brick and mortar shop a couple of years ago.
‘It’s better to be lucky than good’
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