Nigel Olsson
Born: February 10th, 1949

Influences: Bobby Elliot, Ringo Starr, Russ Kunkel, Bev Bevan, Buddy Rich, Phil Collins, Levon Helm

                                                          

Selected Discography
Year Title Artist
1970's Golden Classics Edition Nigel Olsson
1979 Nigel Nigel Olsson
2002 Greatest Hits 1970-2002 Elton John
1971 Tumbleweed Connection Elton John
1973 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John
1971 Madman Across the Water Elton John
2007 Rocket Man: Number Ones Elton John
1974 Greatest Hits Elton John
1975 Atlantic Crossing Rod Stewart
1975 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy Elton John
1972 Honky Chateau Elton John
1973 Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player Elton John
2006 The Captain and the Kid Elton John
1977 Greatest Hits Volume II Elton John
1974 Caribou Elton John
1983 Too Low for Zero Elton John
1992 Rare Masters Elton John
2005 80 B.B. King
1969 Empty Sky (Nigel plays on "Lady...") Elton John
1975 Prisoner in Disguise Linda Ronstadt
1971 11-17-70 Elton John
1975 The Hungry Years Neil Sedaka
1976 Here and There (Live) Elton John
1984 Breaking Hearts Elton John

Selected DVDs
Year Title Artist
2001 One Night Only Elton John
2004 Dream Ticket Elton John
1979 To Russia with Elton Elton John
2001 Classic Albums - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John
2003 Greatest Hits Live @ Madison Square Garden Elton John

Selected Books
Year Title Author
1993 The Elton John Keyboard Book Elton John
2001 Sir Elton: The Definitive Biography Philip Norman
2004 His Song: The Musical Journey of Elton John Elizabeth Rosenthal
1996 Rocket Man: Elton John From A-Z Claude Bernardin & Tom Stanton

More CDs
Year Title Artist
1972 Everything Stops for Tea Long John Baldry
1981 The Fox Elton John
1974 Land's End Jimmy Webb
1980 21 at 33 Elton John
1970 Very 'eavy...Very 'umble Uriah Heep
1968 Two Sides of a Penny Plastic Penny
1969 Currency Plastic Penny
1968 Funky Spencer Davis Group

Nigel Olsson's Drum Equipment:

Buy DW Drums & Hardware
Collector's Maple Drums in "Formula One" red to yellow fade lacquer specialty and custom graphics with chrome hardware
1. 5"x14" Snare Drum
2. 7"x8" Tom
3. 8"x10" Tom
4. 9"x12" Tom
5. 12"x14" Floor Tom
6. 14"x16" Floor Tom
7. 18"x22" Bass Drum (x2)
8. 8"x22" Woofer (x2)
DW Hardware including 2 5000TD3 Delta3 Single Bass Drum Pedals

Buy Paiste Cymbals
A. 14" Signature Power HiHats
B. 18" Signature Full Crash
C. 20" Signature Silver Mellow Ride (also used as a crash)
D. 24" 2002 Ride (with 36 rivets)
 


Accessories

Buy Remo Drumheads
Snare Batter: Coated Ambassador
Snare Side: Ambassador
Tom Batters: Coated Ambassadors
Tom Bottoms: Smooth White Ambassadors
Bass Drum Batters: Powerstroke3
Bass Drum Fronts: Custom black or white logo heads.  Muffling the kick drums is a modified "Simon Phillips method", with a small bath towel rolled up and taped to the batter head, plus a standard DW pillow barely touching the front head.

Buy Vic Firth Sticks & Brushes
American Classic Rock model

Buy Shure Microphones
Snare: SM57

Buy Sennheiser Microphones
Toms: E835
Bass Drum: 901
Vocal: E604

 



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