Chip Hanna’s Drumset For Sale on Craigslist

by FLANNERY CASHILL

Some of you may know Chip Hanna from his drumming for the ’90s street punk band U.S. Bombs. Others may recognize him from One Man Army or his alt-country project Chip Hanna and the Berlin Three. Either way, few of you probably expected his drumset to end up in Leawood. Present owner Ben Pate met Hanna in his former state of residence, California, and the drums were a joint Christmas gift from Pate’s girlfriend and Hanna himself. Pate has put the set on sale for Craigslist, advertising to collectors and drummers but hoping that someone who “knows and appreciates drums” will buy them first. The drums have been on several nationwide tours and used on the original U.S. Bombs recordings, but really, they’re just not practical in a condo.