For a brief period thereafter, clear drums enjoyed great popularity.
Today there's quite a demand in the vintage market for the clear drums of yesteryear.
Well, yesteryear has become this year. In 1994, Austin, Texas drum dealer Tommy Robertson purchased the defunct Darwin Drum Company. Tommy had the means to manufacture drums, but no name to put on them. He considered several, then decided that the most logical thing to do was to resurrect the name that had established the drums in the first place. Tommy and his production manager, John Cummings, had to work with the manufacturer to get them back into drumshell production, and also to get those shells up to contemporary quality standards.