BY PHIL HOOD The announcement that Gibson had sold the Slingerland name to DW Drums caught the world by surprise last week. Don Lombardi, co-founder of DW Drums admitted to being astonished by the deal, which was presented to him as a birthday gift from his son and DW CEO Chris Lombardi. “I knew very little of Gibson and the guitar business,“ Don Lombardi told me. “But we had looked at the legacy brands in the drum business, Slingerland was … Continue reading DW’s Slingerland Revival Will Begin With Radio King Snare Drums