May I pass on my heartfelt congratulations to Mr A Thompson of Fountainbridge for answering the question (see below) correctly and winning the prize, which he is free to claim at any time - unless I die (in case of which I've already discussed a contingency plan with Anna Luehrmann and she's kindly agreed to write it) or for some other reason lose my blog-posting privileges in the meantime. The drummer was indeed Bill Bruford, sometime Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, and Earthworks stickman, pictured playing actually with 2 Simmons SDX drum kits (that's SIXTEEN pads in all folks) on 1989's Yes-spinoff Anderson Bruford Wakeman and Howe tour. If you look closely, you may also see, amongst other things, a 24-inch Paiste gong and an acoustic Tama snare drum for emergencies (asides from being brilliantly designed and light years ahead of their time, Simmons kits were notoriously unreliable), such as occurred on the 15th July 1991 at, of all places, Madison Square Garden on the behemoth of a tour that was the Yes 'Union'. On said occasion, both kits simultaneously failed and and poor old Bill was left to fend off Alan 'Lightning' White in a drum battle with only said snare and the cymbals. Alas the lot of the electric percussionist. Acoustic drum fans can laugh at poor Bill's expense here, although I must warn you the picture quality is useless. To see the SDX's in all their glory, though, click here.
Oh, and by the way Andrew, if you'd like to suggest a further blog post on the rise and fall and rise again (the last rise being somewhat metaphorical, applying as it does only to that in my estimations) of the hapless, financially suicidal geniuses of Simmons, then you need only ask.
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