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Funny fake?

I can't imagine how a drum skin for The Sisters would ever even exist. However, the signatures look as though they may be genuine.

It could be that it was a joke from Andrew and Gary back in the day?

the signed are 100% genuine, sure them used a drum skin from the support band or he bring it from home. Same thing happened to Utrech Tivoli soundcheck : somebody or maybe the sisters themself use the support band drum kit. Also I saw a sisters poster signed by sisters and the band support, again them had a drum kit.

So the guy who lives in Fleet, Hampshire, UK worked for a record shop that attended the gig sounds plausible until the gig in question is in Bremen Germany.

It could have been that someone else at the record shop followed The Sisters on tour.

unlikely given that the seller says"As in my description the record shop where I worked received the drum skin from the Sisters when they were playing a small local gig and they were given free tickets to it. Maybe they took the skin with them to be signed. Looking at the skin it hasn't been played on whereas the one I have from The Damned has been so at a guess I would say that people from my music/record shop took it along"

OR it could very well be that the people from the record store took a drum skin to a Sisters Gig in England, got it signed, but did not put the date on.

When the seller was given it in 1989, they probably did remember that the signature were Andrew's and Marx', but did not remember the exact date (1989 not being a good time for looking at the Sisters Gigography, since it prolly did not exist ).

So they said 'uhhh, it was five years ago, somewhere October/November... errrr... just put something on there. He won't remember all the dates anyway. He ain't THAT big a fan'.

Et voilà...

IZ.

<mod hat> This is Sisters chat, keep on topic please.I've split the Belgium Derail out here. </mod hat>

For the record, I think Izzy has got it right.

I'll just have to redo my most on topic remark then

Drum machines don't have drum skins, do they

While we're on the subject of the Doktor, does anyone have any decent pics of... it?

depends which doc you mean - they changed over the years

eg: a roland tr 808 or an oberheim dmx

have a read of the official sisters website's "tech boys" page about the doc, and then just do a google image search for each drum machine.

the nearest real photo is a pic from the black planet video shoot where wayne is holding an oberheim dmx:

http://www.robertwebb.com/som.htm

http://www.mixi.net/Sisters.Of.Mercy/Pe ... anche.html also may be of interest (but without interesting background information as QB's link provides).

Does the robot do anything or is it just for show? I always thought the robot was the "doktor"

Wasn't that more the keyboard set-up for the backing vocalist/keyboard player they had in the early nineties. Hence the mic and light?

robertzombie wrote:Does the robot do anything or is it just for show? I always thought the robot was the "doktor"

its a joke

the robot is based on "johnny 5" from the film short circuit



and yes, the keyboard and mic stand are from the early 90s lineup - there are photos from either wembley or the nec (i think?) where dan donovan (ex-Big Audio Dynamite) is playing them...

http://db.tsom.org/tours/_1990_tour_.html

the dok was only ever a drum machine in box... dont get too giddy about it

iirc these days "he" is a rack-mounted sampler hooked up to a pc sequencer. probably. i cant be arsed re-reading the tech pages on the website to double check

I always found the robot prop amusing, but from the enlarged image posted by robertzombie, the box does look more like a keyboard.