Bryan Mantia

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Brain Mantia Drum Solo - Tennessee 2004 pro audio

Brain in Conversation w/ Terry Bozzio on DC's The Art of Drumming

Guns N' Roses - Buckethead & Brain (2002.11.27 Pepsi Arena - Albany, NY)

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California
California (pronounced ⁱ/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.

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Hollywood
Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema. Today, much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as the Westside neighborhood, and the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, but significant auxiliary industries, such as editing, effects, props, post-production, and lighting companies remain in Hollywood, as does the backlot of Paramount Pictures.
On February 16, 2005, California Assembly Members Jackie Goldberg and Paul Koretz introduced a bill to require California to keep specific records on Hollywood as if it were independent, although it is not the typical practice of the City of Los Angeles to establish specific boundaries for districts or neighborhoods. For this to be done, the boundaries were defined. The bill was unanimously supported by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Los Angeles City Council. Assembly Bill 588 was approved by the Governor of California on August 28, 2006, and now the district of Hollywood has official borders. The border can be loosely described as the area east of West Hollywood, south of Mulholland Drive, Laurel Canyon, Cahuenga Boulevard, and Barham Boulevard, and the cities of Burbank and Glendale, north of Melrose Avenue and west of the Golden State Freeway and Hyperion Avenue. This includes all of Griffith Park and Los Feliz^{[citation needed]} – two areas that were hitherto considered separate from Hollywood by most Angelenos. The population of the district, including Los Feliz, as of the 2000 census was 123,436 and the median household income was $33,409 in 1999.

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Musicians Institute
Musicians Institute is a privately owned for-profit music vocational school located in Hollywood, California. Although not a regionally accredited school, the school offers a variety of accredited Bachelor Degrees, Associate Degrees and Certificate programs in fields including contemporary music performance on guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and vocals as well as audio engineering (including studio recording, post-production and live sound), independent artist development, guitar-making, music business, and film production.
Musicians Institute is approved to operate in the State of California by the Bureau for Private Post-secondary Education and has been an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1981.
Musicians Institute was originally founded as The Guitar Institute of Technology in 1977. Based upon the educational philosophy of guitarist Howard Roberts, GIT was co-founded and managed by Los Angeles music businessman Pat Hicks. With the addition of the Bass Institute of Technology (BIT) in 1978 and the Percussion Institute of Technology (PIT) in 1980, GIT became Musicians Institute. MI co-founder Pat Hicks provided the organizational skills that turned Howard Roberts' educational philosophy into a functioning music school.

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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.

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Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.; raised as William Bruce Bailey; February 6, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he enjoyed great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before disappearing from the public eye for several years. In 2001, he resurfaced with a new line-up of Guns N' Roses at Rock in Rio 3, and subsequently played periodic concert tours, before releasing the long-delayed album Chinese Democracy in 2008. Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME.
Rose was born William Bruce Rose, Jr. in Lafayette, Indiana, the oldest child of Sharon E. (née Lintner), then 16 years old, and William Bruce Rose, then 20 years old. When Rose was two years old, his father abandoned the family. His mother remarried to Stephen L. Bailey, and his name was changed to William Bruce Bailey. He has two younger siblings—a sister, Amy, and a half-brother, Stuart. Until the age of 17, Rose believed that Bailey was his real father. He never met his biological father as an adult; William Rose, Sr. was found murdered in Illinois in 1984.

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Azam Ali
Azam Ali (Persian: اعظم علی‎) is an Iranian American musician.
Born in Tehran, Iran 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, India. Ali and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California in 1985, after which Ali discovered the santour. Ali then studied the santour under Persian master Manoocher Sadeghi, which led to the rediscovery of her voice. She is now living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
In 1996, Ali formed "alternative world" group VAS with percussionist Greg Ellis after meeting the year prior at a concert at UCLA. She and her husband, Loga Ramin Torkian, are also part of another group, Niyaz, an Iranian acoustic electronic group. In 2005, Azam Ali was featured in Enter The Chicken, a Buckethead album, singing the song "Coma" with Serj Tankian.
In 2002, Ali released her first solo album, Portals of Grace. This was followed up with 2006's Elysium for the Brave, which reached #10 on Billboard's World Albums chart on 23 September 2006. Ali's most recent release, 2011's From Night to the Edge of Day, is a collection of lullabies inspired by her son.

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Bernie Worrell
George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. (born April 19, 1944) is an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. Ice Cube called him the best keyboardist he has ever heard.
Worrell was born in Long Branch, New Jersey and grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey. A musical prodigy, he learned to play the piano by age three and wrote a concerto at age eight. He went on to study at Juilliard and the New England Conservatory of Music. As a college student around 1970, Worrell played with a group called Chubby & The Turnpikes (later to be known as Tavares). The drummer in that band was Joey Kramer, who left in October, 1970, to be a founding member of the rock band Aerosmith. He then met George Clinton, then the leader of a doo wop group called The Parliaments. Soon, Worrell, Clinton, The Parliaments and their backing band (Funkadelic) moved to Detroit, Michigan, and became Parliament. During the 1970s the same group of musicians toured and recorded under both the Parliament and Funkadelic names as well as several others, collectively known as Parliament-Funkadelic. Worrell was a central figure in the group. He played the piano, keyboards and organ in both groups and co-wrote or did the arrangements for many of the bands' hits. He debuted the keyboard synthesizer bass in popular music on the Parliament song "Flash Light". He also recorded a 1978 album with the group, All the Woo in the World, under his own name.

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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner.
Laswell ranks among the most prolific of modern musicians, being involved in hundreds of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. Laswell's music draws upon many different genres, most notably funk, various world music, jazz, dub and ambient styles. He has also played or produced music from the noisier, more aggressive end of the rock spectrum, such as hardcore punk and metal.
According to music critic Chris Brazier, "Laswell’s pet concept is 'collision music' which involves bringing together musicians from wildly divergent but complementary spheres and seeing what comes out." The credo of one record label run by Laswell, and which typifies much of his work, is “Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted”. Though projects arranged by Laswell may be credited under the same name and often feature the same roster of musicians, the styles and themes explored on different albums can vary dramatically: Material began as a noisy dance music project, but subsequent releases have been centered around hip hop, jazz, or backing spoken word readings by beat generation icon William S. Burroughs. Similarly, most versions of Praxis have featured guitarist Buckethead, but have explored different permutations with each new album.

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Bill Moseley
William "Bill" Moseley (born November 11, 1951) is an American film actor and musician who has starred in a number of cult classic horror films, including House of 1000 Corpses, Repo! The Genetic Opera and The Devil's Rejects. His first big role was in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 as Chop Top. He has also released records with guitarist Buckethead in the band Cornbugs, as well as featuring on the guitarist's solo work. He is also known for his role as "Luigi Largo" in Repo! The Genetic Opera.
At the age of 29, Moseley got his first film role in Alan Rudolph's Endangered Species as a cab driver. In 1985's Osa he played a character named "Quilt Face." His third role has become one of his most well known; he appeared as Chop Top in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, after Tobe Hooper saw him in the independent short, The Texas Chainsaw Manicure. The character spawned the famous film quotes, "Dog will hunt!", "Incoming mail!", and "Lick my plate, you dogdick!".
Two years after TCM 2, he played Frank in 1988's Mamba. Also in 1988 appeared as a soldier in the remake of the Steve McQueen film The Blob. He next played Darrell in the film Pink Cadillac starring Clint Eastwood. He then played the lead role of Ricky Caldwell in Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!. Even after his roles in these films, he still failed to achieve the popularity within the horror community that he had enjoyed after TCM 2.

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Bootsy Collins
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951) is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.
Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. Collins is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
With his elder brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins, and Kash Waddy and Philippé Wynne, Collins formed a funk band called The Pacemakers in 1968.
In March 1970, after most of the members of James Brown's band quit over a pay dispute, The Pacemakers were hired as Brown's backing band and they became known as The J.B.'s. (They are often referred to as the "original" J.B.'s to distinguish them from later line-ups that went by the same name.) Although they worked for Brown for only 11 months, the original J.B.'s played on some of Brown's most intense funk recordings, including "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine", "Super Bad", "Soul Power", and "Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Nothing".

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Bryan Mantia
Bryan "Brain" Mantia (born February 4, 1963 in Cupertino, California) is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead. He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands.
Born in 1963 in the South Bay city of Cupertino, California to an Italian-American father and a Japanese American mother, Mantia became interested in such 'groove heavy' artists as James Brown, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix early on, but it wasn't until he was 16 years old that Mantia began playing drums. Shortly thereafter, Mantia acquired the nickname "Brain" while playing in a high school concert band, due to his obsession with the complex Anthony Cirone book, "Portraits in Rhythm." Mantia continued to perfect his drumming skills, by studying at such music schools as the Percussion Institute of Technology in Hollywood. The mid '80s saw Mantia join the San Francisco Bay Area funk-rock band, the Limbomaniacs, who broke up later in the decade, but reformed to issue a lone full-length in 1990, Stinky Grooves.

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Buckethead
Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 36 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists. His music spans such diverse areas as progressive metal, funk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, ambient, and avant-garde music.
Buckethead is famously known for wearing a KFC bucket on his head, emblazoned with an orange bumper sticker that reads FUNERAL in capital black block letters, and an expressionless plain white costume mask. He also incorporates nunchucks and robot dancing into his stage performances.
An instrumentalist, Buckethead is best known for his electric guitar playing. He has been voted number 8 on a list in GuitarOne magazine of the "Top 10 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time" as well as being included in Guitar World's lists of the "25 all-time weirdest guitarists" and is also known for being in the "50 fastest guitarists of all time list".

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Chris Pitman
Chris Pitman (born November 16, 1961) is an American musician best known for his involvement with hard rock band Guns N' Roses. A multi-instrumentalist, Pitman is known to play keyboards, guitar and drums, in addition to his role as a lead or backing vocalist. Pitman currently fronts alternative rock band SexTapes and performs with Guns N' Roses, and previously worked with such bands as Lusk, Replicants and Tool.
Pitman studied at the Art Institute of Kansas City and the University of Missouri. In 1993, Pitman worked with the controversial artist Les Levine. The following year, Pitman worked with Dr. Dre in Dre's home studio. He also joined Tool on tour and played synth on Tool's album Ænima. In 1995, he appeared on the album Bourgeois Kitten by Blinker the Star.
Pitman was co-founder of Los Angeles-based art coalition 'Priory of the North,' which focuses on conceptual/public art and works primarily with oil painting, lithography, oils, and metal. His Land/Environment projects have been onsite in various Midwest regional farmland sites in Lafayette County and Johnson County, Missouri. His Rio de Janeiro site-specific work titled "Mind/Land" has been delayed until permits and visas for such materials can be imported. This work has been in progress since 2003.

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Cornbugs
Cornbugs was an American experimental metal band formed in 1995. Comprising vocalist Bill "Choptop" Moseley, guitarist Buckethead, drummer Pinchface and keyboardist Travis Dickerson, the band released five albums, two DVDs, and three compilation albums before they split up in 2007.
The band released their first album, Spot the Psycho, in 1999. The band didn't release anything else until 2001, when they released their second album, Cemetery Pinch, and third album, How Now Brown Cow, simultaneously. All three albums were self-released and sold via Moseley's website.
In 2004 the Cornbugs released their fourth album called Brain Circus. This album was released on the label of their new keyboardist Travis Dickerson, TDRS Music. Later that same year they released their fifth and final studio album of new material called Donkey Town.
In 2005 and 2006, TDRS Music compiled most of Cornbugs' early self released material and remastered it, releasing it on the albums Rest Home for Robots, Skeleton Farm and Celebrity Psychos.

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Dan Monti
Dan Monti, also known by his stage name Del Rey Brewer, is a musician, composer, producer and engineer who has worked with such bands as Metallica, Slayer and Guns N' Roses. The bulk of his work, however, has been in conjunction with Buckethead, with whom he has also toured as a bassist.
Monti is a guitarist and bassist, frequently adding bass parts to Buckethead albums. He is also the lead guitarist for the Serj Tankian touring band The Flying Cunts of Chaos. Dan and his band mates are currently in the studio recording The F.C.C's first album, with a release date to be announced. The band released their first single called "Daysheet Blues" on iTunes. He is also the lead vocalist for The F.C.C.
Monti has been credited on many albums in his career, the first being Bucketheadland 2 in 2003. He has since gone on to produce most of Buckethead's albums. He is also credited on many of these albums as the bassist, as well co-writer and mixer. Monti has also contributed to many high profile band's albums, including Serj Tankian's solo albums. He is listed for "additional engineering" or as "assistant engineer" on Guns N' Roses recent album Chinese Democracy, on which Buckethead also featured, as well as being credited for "digital editing" on Metallica's Death Magnetic and Slayer's World Painted Blood.

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Del James
Del James, is an American musician, writer, journalist and artist best known for writing the short story that reportedly inspired the "November Rain" video by hard rock band Guns N' Roses. He is a close friend to Axl Rose and is the road manager for Guns N' Roses.
Del James was born Adalberto James Miranda in New Rochelle, New York, on February 5, 1964, and raised in Mamaroneck, New York.
He moved to Hollywood, California, in 1985. During his first weekend in Hollywood, Del met West Arkeen and the members of an unsigned group called Guns N' Roses. Del still works with Axl Rose and the current lineup of Guns N' Roses, serving as road manager
As a journalist, he was a Senior Editor for RIP, a heavy metal magazine and his work has appeared in many publications including Rolling Stone. Nominated for a "Maggy Award," Del has interviewed Keith Richards, Alice Cooper, Ronnie Wood, Kiss, The Cult, Guns N' Roses, and countless others.
Del also released a collection of short horror stories entitled The Language of Fear in 1995 on Dell/Abyss Books and reissued a decade later. The collection features an introduction by Axl Rose and the short story “Without You”, said to be the inspiration for the Guns N' Roses video November Rain.

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Deli Creeps
The Deli Creeps were an avant-garde band consisting of singer Maximum Bob, guitarist Buckethead, drummer Pinchface and various bass players, currently Daniel Monti. Though Buckethead is the only member who makes a consistent effort to hide his identity, little is known about the other members of the band.
The Deli Creeps formed in the late 1980s/early 1990s in Claremont Southern California, USA, but shortly after moved to San Francisco. In 1991 they released their first demo tape with bassist Tony Black, after which they gained a strong loyal following before splitting up for the first time. Maximum Bob contributed to the John Zorn produced debut album of Mr. Bungle.
The band reformed in 1996 for the first time and released a second demo tape. In the interim only Buckethead through his contacts to John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Bootsy Collins had gained some public attention. Shortly after their second demo they had all moved on once again before reforming for the second time in 2003 with Josh Bockles on bass. They played some concerts in California. Buckethead was also guitarist for Guns N' Roses then.

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Dizzy Reed
Dizzy Reed (born Darren Arthur Reed; June 18, 1963) is a contemporary rock musician, and occasional actor. He is best known for his tenure as the keyboardist & pianist for the rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he has played, toured and recorded since 1990. Aside from frontman Axl Rose, Reed is the longest standing and only member of Guns N' Roses to remain from the band's Use Your Illusion era.
Reed was born as Darren Arthur Reed on June 18, 1963 in Hinsdale, Illinois, and was raised in Colorado. As a child, Reed was described as reclusive and introverted. His grandmother began teaching him to play the organ when he was a young child, and before he was out of elementary school, he formed small local bands. At the age of fifteen, he took up keyboard playing as a release from the constant bullying he endured at school.^{[citation needed]}
As an adult, Reed pursued a music career in Los Angeles. He was a founding member of the club band The Wild in the late 1980s, with whom he spent five years. He also replaced August Worchell as the guitarist of the group Johnny Crash although the band split up shortly after he joined.

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DJ Ashba
Daren Jay "DJ" Ashba (born November 10, 1972) is an American musician, producer, songwriter and CEO of Ashba Media. He is the lead guitarist in Guns N' Roses and Sixx:A.M. He is also known for his work with hard rock bands BulletBoys and Beautiful Creatures. Ashba has worked with various artists including Mötley Crüe, Drowning Pool, Marion Raven, Aimee Allen and Neil Diamond.
Ashba was born in Monticello, Indiana and was raised in rural Fairbury, Illinois by his religious single-mother, a classically trained pianist, who began teaching him about music as a toddler. Dj performed in his first piano recital at the age of five, where he played Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” Ashba’s next ambition was to learn the drums. He built kits out of garbage cans and pots and pans, until he finally acquired a real set at the age of six. When he was eight, Dj took a job detasseling corn in the fields in order to earn enough money to buy his first guitar out of the Sears catalog. He would ride to his job in the corn fields on the bus with a guitar player from a local band, who would teach him a new chord each day on a “fret” that they had carved into the back of a bus seat with a pocketknife. His friend would take the knife and make three holes in the fret and say, “That’s an A chord, go home and practice.” Dj sometimes spent 17 hours a day practicing guitar in his bedroom as a teenager. For his 16th birthday, Ashba’s father took him to his first concert, the Mötley Crüe Girls, Girls, Girls tour and his life was forever changed. “The crowd, the music, the lights! It was the night I realized that no matter what it takes, I was gonna be on that stage one day.” At the age of 19, Dj packed up his possessions and set out for Hollywood to make it as a rockstar.

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DJ Disk
DJ Disk is a San Francisco Bay Area turntablist of Panamanian, Colombian, and Nicaraguan descent. Born Luis Quintanilla on October 7, 1970, in San Francisco, Disk began scratching and mixing vinyl at a young age. In 1992 he joined his long-time friend DJ Q-bert among the Rock Steady Crew DJs, later changing the group's name to the Invisibl Skratch Piklz.
As a founding member of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Disk has been an enormously influential DJ and is credited with inventing the 2 Click Orbit, The Crab, the echo fade technique and the 2 Click Flare Lazer Orbit techniques. He was later a founding member of El Stew, which, according to Allmusic, "dealt with the more experimental side of electronic music."
In addition to extensive hip hop work with the Piklz and others, Disk has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians working in other genres, including Herbie Hancock, Bill Laswell, Buckethead, Zakir Hussain, Mike Patton, Norah Jones, Flava Flav, Rancid, and Jack DeJohnette. He has been involved in over seventy recordings, and has performed in over fifteen countries. While not on tour, he lives in his hometown of San Francisco^{[citation needed]} where he records and teaches turntablism. DJ Disk says he originated the term "turntablist" (see competing claims).

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Duff McKagan
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Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician and writer. He is best known for his twelve-year tenure as the bassist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During his later years with the band, he released a solo album, Believe in Me (1993), and formed the short-lived supergroup Neurotic Outsiders.
Following his departure from Guns N' Roses in 1997, McKagan briefly reunited with his pre-success Seattle punk band 10 Minute Warning. He then formed the still-active hard rock band Loaded, in which he performs lead vocals and rhythm guitar. Between 2002 and 2008, he played bass in the supergroup Velvet Revolver with his former Guns N' Roses band mates Slash and Matt Sorum. He joined Jane's Addiction for a brief tenure in 2010. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 as a member of Guns N' Roses.
In addition to his musical career, McKagan has established himself as a writer. He has written weekly columns on a wide variety of topics for SeattleWeekly.com,Playboy.com, and ESPN.com. A former high school drop-out, he attended Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics in the early 2000s, and subsequently founded the wealth management firm Meridian Rock.

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Efrem Schulz
Efrem "The Bean" Schulz (born December 16, 1975) is the lead singer of Death By Stereo. As of Paul Miner's departure in 2005, he is the only remaining original member of the band.
He was previously in a band called Clint (named so because of a friend named Clint), who released two demos, a 7 Inch, and a full-length disc. Prior bands to Clint include Blue Bottle and Hard As Mother Nature. The full-length was released by the owner of Bionic Records, Dennis Smith, and Paul Miner, who later went on to become the bass player for Death By Stereo.
In 2005, Efrem appeared in the song "Botnus" on the album Enter the Chicken by Buckethead & Friends, an album produced by and featuring System of a Down's Serj Tankian. Efrem also performed guest vocals on the Atreyu album Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses and on the Aiden album Conviction.
Efrem has had a number of other jobs at Punk rock labels and so on, including working at Revelation Records and Kung Fu Records and Films for a while as a production assistant and as a club DJ.

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Extrakd
Extrakd, also called Xtrakd and Xtraked is an American producer and DJ. He was a member of projects El Stew, No Forcefield, Gonervill and worked with Bill Laswell's Material (Intonarumori, 1999), experimental guitarist Buckethead (Colma, 1998 and Bermuda Triangle, 2002), Guns N' Roses-drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia (Fullcone), DJ Disk (Ancient Termites, 1998) and D-Styles of the Invisibl Skratch Piklz and the Beat Junkies (Return To Planetary Deterioration, 2001).
Additionally he contributed to numerous Punk rock and Hip hop projects like The Lost Tribe, T.H.T.S.L.E.E. and Jam Republic. He is joint owner of Tyrell Studios in Oakland, California.

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Frank Ferrer
Frank Ferrer (born 1966) is an American rock drummer and session musician. In October 2006, Ferrer became an official member of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses after serving as the band's emergency substitute drummer for Bryan Mantia on several occasions during the band's summer 2006 European tour. Ferrer is also a member of The Psychedelic Furs as well as a former member of Love Spit Love. He has recorded and worked with several high profile musicians including The Beautiful, Robi "Draco" Rosa, and Sarah Clifford.
Frank was born March 25, 1966 and raised in New York. He has stated at an interview at the School of Rock,Chatham, NJ that at age 11 he saw a Kiss concert and it was there he first started to love Rock music.
In 1992 he joined Love Spit Love, which featured guitarist Richard Fortus. Since then he has gone on to play with other bands such as the second incarnation of the Psychedelic Furs and Honky Toast (both of those bands also featured Fortus), The Beautiful, The The, Pisser, The Compulsions, Robi "Draco" Rosa, Sarah Clifford, Gordan Gano and was a founding member of NYC heavy-groove legends Ratchethead. He has also toured with Doro Pesch and Tommy Stinson.

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Gilby Clarke
Gilbert "Gilby" Clarke (born August 17, 1962, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American guitarist and record producer best known for a 3-year tenure as the rhythm guitarist of Guns N' Roses, replacing Izzy Stradlin in 1991 during the Use Your Illusion Tour. Following his departure from the group, Clarke went on to forge a solo career as well playing guitar with Slash's Snakepit, Heart, Nancy Sinatra, Kathy Valentine (of the Go-Go's), MC5 and forming his own group Rock Star Supernova with members of Metallica and Mötley Crüe.
Clarke's production work includes albums by L.A. Guns, Bullets and Octane, The Bronx and Vains of Jenna.
Gilby Clarke started his musical career during the first half of the Eighties, replacing Candy's original guitarist, Geoff "Rexx" Siegel. He left them to form Kill For Thrills, a metal band which released the EP Commercial Suicide and the LP Dynamite from Nightmareland and before eventually disbanding. Kill For Thrills was a supergroup of sorts with Jason Nesmith (son of former Monkees Mike Nesmith) on Guitar, and Todd Muscat formerly of seminal L.A. Punk band Decry, on Bass and then later with Junkyard after Kill For Thrills. Muscat is also the brother of Brent Muscat (Faster Pussy Cat, L.A. Guns, Sin City Sinners). All members have deep roots in the Los Angeles rock scene.

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Izzy Stradlin
Jeffrey Dean Isbell (born April 8, 1962), known by his stage name Izzy Stradlin, is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and former rhythm guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, which he left at the height of its fame in 1991. Following his departure, he led his own band Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds for one album and tour. Since the late 1990s, Stradlin has released ten solo albums, the last six independently.
Stradlin was born Jeffrey Dean Isbell in Lafayette, Indiana. His father was an engraver, and his mother worked for the phone company; they divorced when he was eight. Of his hometown, Stradlin later said, "It was cool growing up there. There's a courthouse and a college, a river and railroad tracks. It's a small town, so there wasn't much to do. We rode bikes, smoked pot, got into trouble–it was pretty Beavis and Butt-head actually."
Stradlin developed an interest in music early in life; by the age of eight, his musical favorites included Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, and Led Zeppelin. His biggest musical influence was his paternal grandmother, who played drums in a swing jazz band with her friends. Inspired, Stradlin talked his parents into buying him a drum kit.

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Japanese American
Japanese Americans (日系米国人, Nikkei Beikokujin^?) are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades, it have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,304,286, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity. In the 2000 census, the largest Japanese American communities were found in California with 394,896, Hawaii with 296,674, Washington with 56,210, New York with 45,237, and Illinois with 27,702.
People from Japan began migrating to the U.S. in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration. Particularly after the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Japanese immigrants were sought by industrialists to replace the Chinese immigrants. In 1907, the "Gentlemen's Agreement" between the governments of Japan and the U.S. ended immigration of Japanese workers (i.e., men), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the U.S. The Immigration Act of 1924 banned the immigration of all but a token few Japanese.

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Jay Lane
Jay Lane (born December 5, 1964) is an American drummer from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a member of Primus, as well as Bob Weir's RatDog, Scaring the Children with Weir and Rob Wasserman, and the hip hop/jazz fusion group Alphabet Soup. In 2002, Lane was named "drummer of the year" by the California Music Awards. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife Aida, their two daughters, Erika and Xenia, and his mother.
Lane began learning to play the drums at age nine, and continued to take lessons for 2 years. At sixteen, he took a summer job at a music camp in Cazadero, where he met saxophonist/drummer Dave Ellis and future Spearhead guitarist Dave Shul.
In 1982, Lane played with Dave Shul in the band Ice Age. In 1983, he joined Bay Area ska punk band The Uptones when their saxophonist left, prompting drummer Dave Ellis to switch instruments. They released an album, K.U.S.A., before Lane left in 1985 to join the Freaky Executives. Over the next four years, the Executives steadily gigged and built their reputation, eventually landing a record deal with Warner Bros. Records. It was during this time that Lane met Primus bassist Les Claypool in the bands' shared rehearsal space, and the two became friends as Claypool volunteered to act as a roadie for the Freaky Executives.

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Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is widely considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in music history, and one of the most influential musicians of his era despite mainstream exposure limited to just three years. After initial success in Europe with his group The Jimi Hendrix Experience, he achieved fame in the United States following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, he headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival and the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. He often favored raw overdriven amplifiers with high gain and treble and helped develop the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback.
Hendrix helped to popularize use of the wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, which he often used to deliver tonal exaggerations in his solos, particularly with high bends, complex guitar playing, and use of legato. As a record producer, he also broke new ground in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. He was one of the first to experiment with stereophonic phasing effects for rock recording.^{[citation needed]} He was influenced by blues artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James,rhythm and blues and soul guitarists Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper, and the jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery. Hendrix began dressing and wearing a moustache like Little Richard when he performed and recorded in his band from March 1, 1964 through to the spring of 1965. In 1966, he stated, "I want to do with my guitar what Little Richard does with his voice".

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John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer. He has had experience with a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore punk, classical, extreme metal, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular, and improvised music. Zorn brings these styles to his work, which he refers to with the label avant-garde/experimental.
Zorn has stated: "All the various styles are organically connected to one another. I'm an additive person - the entire storehouse of my knowledge informs everything I do. People are so obsessed with the surface that they can't see the connections, but they are there."
Zorn has led the punk jazz band Naked City and the klezmer-influenced quartet Masada, composed Masada Songbooks (written concert music for classical ensembles), and has produced music for film and documentary.
Zorn established himself within the New York City downtown music movement in the mid 1970s and has since composed and performed with a wide range of musicians working in diverse musical areas. By the early 1990s Zorn was working extensively in Japan, attracted by that culture's openness about borrowing and remixing ingredients from elsewhere, before returning to New York as a permanent base in the mid-1990s. Zorn has undertaken many tours of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, often performing at festivals with varying ensembles to display his diverse output.

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Jonas Hellborg
Jonas Hellborg (born June 7, 1958) is a Swedish bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin, Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V. Selvaganesh, Mattias IA Eklundh and Buckethead.
Hellborg began his music career in 1976 in Sweden touring with local rock acts. He was spotted by percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah in a small club in Stockholm 1979 and he moved to London for a year to work with Reebop on different projects. He played the Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland in 1981 and met Michael Brecker who introduced him to John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham and other fusion stars. He was asked to join John McLaughlin’s reformed Mahavishnu Orchestra in 1983 and he stayed with McLaughlin until 1988 touring and recording with Mahavishnu Orchestra and also doing several duet tours with McLaughlin during this time.
In 1986 and 1987 he toured with a project featuring Ginger Baker on drums and Bernie Worrell on keyboards.
In 1988 Hellborg moved to New York and started his own band which first included keyboardist Aydin Esen and drummer Kenwood Dennard, later the Johansson Brothers, Jens on keyboards and Anders on drums. At the same time he started a recording studio together with producer/bassist Bill Laswell called Greenpoint Studios. They recorded a multitude of records there until early 1993, including The Word together with Tony Williams, Octave of the Holy Innocents with Mike Shrieve and Buckethead, Materials Hallucination Engine, E with the Johansson Brothers.

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Josh Freese
Josh Freese (born December 25, 1972) is an American session drummer and songwriter. He is a permanent member of A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, and Devo, having formerly played drums for Nine Inch Nails from late 2005 until late 2008, and for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 2001. Freese has appeared on close to 400 records. He is currently performing live with Devo, Weezer and Sublime with Rome. In December 2010, Josh began touring with Paramore on their South American Tour, temporarily replacing the drummer Zac Farro after he and his brother left the band earlier the same month.
Josh Freese was born in Orlando, Florida. His father conducted the Disney World (Florida) and Disneyland (California) Band and his mother was a classical pianist. Freese began playing the drums when he was 8 years old. He started playing professionally at the age of 12 (in a primarily Top 40 band at Disneyland). As a teenager, he played electronic drums in an all-child rock band at Disneyland named Polo, which led to an endorsement deal with the Simmons electronic drum company. There is an old Simmons commercial (directed by Mitch Brisker), featuring Freese on the additional content section of The Vandals' Live at the House of Blues DVD.

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Justin Broadrick
Justin Karl Michael Broadrick (born 15 August 1969, Birmingham, England) is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.^{[citation needed]} Broadrick has also maintained a parallel career as a producer, producing records and remixes for groups such as Pantera, Isis, and Hydra Head labelmates Pelican. Broadrick has set up record labels such as HeadDirt, Avalanche, Post Mortem Productions (briefly renamed Uprising Productions) and Lo Fibre.
Broadrick was born on August 15 in 1969 in the council estates of inner Birmingham. For the first 4 years of his life he was brought up by his mother and stepfather in a hippie commune. Justin's real father was a heroin addict. By the age of ten, Broadrick was surrounded by the punk-rock that his parents listened to. "The first thing I probably heard out of the house, when I was about 11 years old, was Crass," says Broadrick. "By the age of 12 I fell into early industrial music, stuff like Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse." Justin began to play with his stepfather's guitar, who was then into Can, Roxy Music and Brian Eno.

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Larry Lalonde
Larry "Ler" LaLonde (born Reid Lawrence LaLonde on September 12, 1968 in Oakland, California) is a guitarist who currently plays in Primus along with Les Claypool and Jay Lane. He has also played with Possessed, Blind Illusion, No Forcefield, and the Frank Zappa tribute band "Caca".
Originally inspired by guitarists such as Frank Zappa, Snakefinger, East Bay Ray, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, and his teacher Joe Satriani, LaLonde eventually became interested in early thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Slayer. LaLonde formed his first band in high school, a speed metal band called Blizzard. LaLonde left the band later on to join the first generation death metal band Possessed. Possessed's landmark first album, Seven Churches, was released in 1985 when LaLonde was just 17 years old.
Possessed released two less successful albums before breaking up in 1987. LaLonde then joined experimental thrash metal band Blind Illusion, appearing on the 1988 album The Sane Asylum, through which he became friends with bassist Les Claypool. At around the same time LaLonde was also a member of Corrupted Morals, with whom he recorded the album Cheese-It, released the following year. At the start of 1989, LaLonde left Blind Illusion and Corrupted Morals when Claypool invited him to reform the funk metal outfit Primus, which had been on hiatus since original guitarist Todd Huth left the previous year.

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Larry LaLonde
Larry "Ler" LaLonde (born Reid Lawrence LaLonde on September 12, 1968 in Oakland, California) is a guitarist who currently plays in Primus along with Les Claypool and Jay Lane. He has also played with Possessed, Blind Illusion, No Forcefield, and the Frank Zappa tribute band "Caca".
Originally inspired by guitarists such as Frank Zappa, Snakefinger, East Bay Ray, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, and his teacher Joe Satriani, LaLonde eventually became interested in early thrash metal bands such as Metallica and Slayer. LaLonde formed his first band in high school, a speed metal band called Blizzard. LaLonde left the band later on to join the first generation death metal band Possessed. Possessed's landmark first album, Seven Churches, was released in 1985 when LaLonde was just 17 years old.
Possessed released two less successful albums before breaking up in 1987. LaLonde then joined experimental thrash metal band Blind Illusion, appearing on the 1988 album The Sane Asylum, through which he became friends with bassist Les Claypool. At around the same time LaLonde was also a member of Corrupted Morals, with whom he recorded the album Cheese-It, released the following year. At the start of 1989, LaLonde left Blind Illusion and Corrupted Morals when Claypool invited him to reform the funk metal outfit Primus, which had been on hiatus since original guitarist Todd Huth left the previous year.

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Les Claypool
Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American musician and writer, best known as the lead vocalist and bassist in the band Primus. Claypool's playing style on the electric bass mixes tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends and slapping.
Claypool has also self produced and engineered his solo releases from his own studio "Rancho Relaxo". 2006 saw the release of a full-length feature film Electric Apricot written and directed by Claypool as well as a debut novel South of the Pumphouse.
Claypool was born September 29, 1963 in Richmond, California, but was raised in El Sobrante, California in a working class family with a history of working as auto mechanics. A close family friend, Rhys Hickman, taught him the basics of the slap bass technique, which he mastered throughout his educational period. His early education included Collins Elementary School and De Anza High School, where he was a personal friend of Kirk Hammett.
In 1986, after the death of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton, school friend Kirk Hammett encouraged Claypool to audition for Metallica as Burton's successor. In Metallica's Behind the Music, Claypool said that he jokingly asked the others if they wanted to "jam on some Isley Brothers tunes" during the audition, a reference to his little experience of the thrash metal scene. James Hetfield remarked that Claypool was not awarded the job because "he was too good" and "should do his own thing." Claypool would later admit that he wouldn't have fit in with the band and "would've looked like a freak". The bass slot was instead given to Jason Newsted, who played with Metallica until his departure in 2001. For several years before forming Primus, Claypool worked as a carpenter in El Sobrante. Claypool has cited Larry Graham, Chris Squire, Tony Levin, Geddy Lee, Paul McCartney, Geezer Butler, Bootsy Collins, Stanley Clarke, John Paul Jones, and Sting as his musical influences.

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Matt Sorum
Matthew William Sorum (born November 19, 1960) is an American rock drummer and percussionist. Sorum is most famous for his 7-year stint in Guns N' Roses (1990–1997) and supergroup Velvet Revolver (2002–present), which is comprised in part of former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan (bass) and Slash (lead guitar). He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns N' Roses in 2012.
Matt Sorum was born Matthew William Sørum, on November 19, 1960, in the present-day city of Mission Viejo, California. His parents were of English and Norwegian descent. In his first couple of years in high school, Sorum was part of the Mission Viejo Marching Bands drum section. Sorum started out in Mission Viejo as a local hot musician in 1975. Wearing trademark "Union Flag" shorts and nothing else, he used to pound a huge acrylic drumset and overpower his first band "Prophecy", where he and lead singer / guitarist, Jeff Harris (guitarist for the J. Harris Band and later guitarist for funk band Slapbak), stood out and the rest of the band just disappeared. A local songwriter, Stephen Douglas, pulled him from the band and joined him with other talented musicians in the area to form "Chateau", a wall-of-sound band with grandiose themes and sounds in their songs. Chateau played the Hollywood circuit, appearing at Gazzarri's and almost getting into a fight with the original members of the band Ratt, which at the time was known as "Mickey Ratt".^{[citation needed]}

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Maura Davis
Maura Davis was the lead singer of the American indie rock band Denali from Richmond, Virginia, United States, active from 2000 to 2004 (with brief reappearances in 2008). She also fronted the alternative group Ambulette, formerly known as Bella Lea, who released an EP on Astralwerks in 2005, and broke up in 2007 before releasing a first full-length album.
Davis is noted for her soaring vocals and minimalist lyrics. In addition to having a unique ethereal vocal style, she can play both keyboards and guitar. She seems to favor Fender Telecasters in concert (seen live while playing with Ambulette), as well as a variety of other guitars. She is noted for playing a vintage Rhodes Piano on both Denali albums, their self-titled album and its follow-up, The Instinct. She has also been seen playing a number of synthesizers, including her Nord Electro, in Ambulette. For live use this small, lightweight instrument, has taken over from the Rhodes, which is notoriously heavy at around 200 pounds.
Recently she has teamed back up with her brother Keeley in the band Glös.

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Michael Shrieve
Michael Shrieve (born July 6, 1949, in San Francisco) is an American drummer, percussionist, and later, an electronic music composer. He is best known as the drummer in Carlos Santana's eponymous band, playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974. His performance at the 1969 Woodstock festival, when he was just 20 years old, made him one of the youngest musicians to perform at the festival. Shrieve's drum solo during an extended version of "Soul Sacrifice" in the Woodstock film has been described as "electrifying".
Shrieve's first full-time band was called Glass Menagerie, followed by experience in the house band of an R&B club, backing touring musicians including B.B. King and Etta James. At 16, he played in a jam session at the Fillmore Auditorium, where he attracted the attention of Santana's manager, Stan Marcum. When he was 19, Shrieve jammed with Santana at a recording studio and was invited to join that day. The 2004 two-disc Legacy release of Santana features additional tracks recorded before Shrieve joined the band.

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Mike Clink
Mike Clink is a record producer who started his career as an engineer at Record Plant Studios, recording such bands as Triumph, Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Megadeth, UFO (including Strangers in the Night), Jefferson Starship, The Babys, Heart, Eddie Money and many others.
Clink began producing in 1986. Steve Kurutz at www.allmusic.com writes about one of Clink’s earliest production experiences: "…after a series of failed attempts, a young band named Guns N' Roses asked Clink to produce their debut album, Appetite for Destruction…". Clink’s collaboration with Guns N’ Roses lasted for five albums which sold a combined total of around 90 million copies. In 1988 Clink began work on Metallica's album ...And Justice for All but was replaced with Flemming Rasmussen who worked with Metallica on two previous albums.
In 1989, Clink produced the critically acclaimed self-titled debut album of the Sea Hags, recorded at Captain and Tennille's Rumbo studios. It would be the Sea Hags' only album. The following year, Clink co-produced the successful Rust In Peace by American thrash metal band Megadeth. Dave Mustaine writes in the remaster's notebook that Clink produced albums which influenced him as a guitar player.

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Napalm Death
Napalm Death are an extreme metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's career.
Napalm Death are credited with defining the grindcore genre by incorporating elements of hardcore punk and death metal, short songs, fast tempos, deep guttural vocals and sociopolitical lyrics. The band's debut album Scum, released in 1987 by Earache Records, proved substantially influential throughout the global metal community.
Napalm Death have released fifteen studio albums and are listed by Nielsen SoundScan as the seventh best-selling death metal band in the United States.
Napalm Death were formed in the village of Meriden near Birmingham, in the United Kingdom, in May 1981 by Nic Bullen and Miles Ratledge while the duo were still in their early teenage years. The duo had been playing in amateur bands since 1980 as an extension of their fanzine writing, and went through a number of names (including "Civil Defence," "The Mess," "Evasion" and "Undead Hatred") before choosing Napalm Death in mid 1981.

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Ole Beich
Ole Beich (1955 – October 16, 1991) was a Danish musician best known as the bassist for the original lineups of L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses.
Born in the city of Esbjerg, Beich, in his youth, achieved a degree of fame amongst local musicians and fans. He played both guitar and bass with several Danish bands before he decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue his music career.
L.A. Guns were first formed in 1983 by guitarist Tracii Guns. The first lineup included singer William Bailey (who would later change his name to Axl Rose), Beich and drummer Rob Gardner. Bailey would leave the group to front Rapidfire before going on to form Hollywood Rose with Izzy Stradlin and Chris Weber. Singer Michael Jagosz was brought in to replace Rose with the group recording the only material by the current incarnation of L.A. Guns. The material would be released as a bonus disc, titled Collector's Edition No. 1, with the compilation album Hollywood Raw in 2004.
Following Tracii Guns' decision to put L.A. Guns on hold to join recently reunited Hollywood Rose (who had disbanded the previous year), replacing Weber, Hollywood Rose eventually changed their name to Guns N' Roses (combining the names of L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose) with the lineup composed of Axl Rose, Tracii Guns, Izzy Stradlin, Ole Beich and Rob Gardner.

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Paul Tobias
Paul Tobias (born in August 1963, Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American guitarist best known for his involvement with hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he has collaborated since 1994.
The first known collaborations by Tobias and childhood friend Axl Rose can be traced back to 1984 and the formation of Hollywood Rose. The band's demo tape featured two songs co-written by Rose and Tobias; Shadow of Your Love and Back Off Bitch.
In 1985, Rose moved on to form Guns N' Roses. Several tracks on the band's debut album, Appetite for Destruction, were written beforehand and originally intended for earlier projects. While the Hollywood Rose track "Shadow of Your Love" was re-recorded during these sessions, it didn't make it to the album. However, it was released as a B-side of the album's first single, "It's So Easy". Tobias was also thanked in the album's credits.
The third Guns N' Roses studio album, Use Your Illusion I, was released in 1991, featuring a re-recorded version of "Back Off Bitch". At the time, Rose stated in an interview that the song was roughly ten years old.

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Pinchface
Michael Andrew Hakopian, better known as Pinchface is the drummer of the Deli Creeps, Giant Robot II, and the Cornbugs. He has also appeared on numerous Buckethead albums, such as Population Override and Giant Robot (tracks "I Come In Peace" and "Star Wars"). He has also appeared on numerous occasions in Buckethead's Binge Clip Videos. In 2006 he toured the United States with Buckethead and Delray Brewer.

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Richard Fortus
Richard Fortus (born November 17, 1966) is a professional guitarist who is most famous for being one of the guitarists in Guns N' Roses.
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Fortus cut his teeth throughout the Midwest with his band, The Eyes. The four-piece alternative band independently released "Freedom in a Cage", which was produced by David Probst. After signing with Atlantic Records, they changed their name to Pale Divine. They subsequently toured the U.S. in support of their only album, Straight to Goodbye, opening for The Psychedelic Furs.
After The Psychedelic Furs split up, Fortus formed Love Spit Love with Richard and Tim Butler. When The Furs reformed in 2000, Fortus joined the group as second guitarist and played on the live album 'Beautiful Chaos: Greatest Hits Live'.
Fortus has since left Love Spit Love and is now a member of Guns N' Roses, replacing Axl Rose's childhood friend Paul Tobias. In Guns N' Roses, Richard plays both rhythm and lead guitar. Axl is very pleased with Richard's work and has said, "He's an amazing lead player and very technically skilled. He really likes the pocket that Brain sets and the two of them click with Tommy so we finally have the real deal rhythm section, as Richard is a proven professional. Basically, Richard's the guy that we always were looking for."

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Robert Hampson
Robert Hampson (b.1965) is an English musician and composer, known primarily as a guitarist in the band Loop, which he co-founded in London in 1985 with his then girlfriend Becky Stewart (Bex). Loop recorded three albums, the last of which (A Gilded Eternity) made the U.K. album charts.
After Loop disbanded, Hampson formed the more experimental Main with fellow Loop member Scott Dowson, releasing several albums and EPs on Beggars Banquet Records. Although a strong signature in the early material of Main, the guitar was slowly eroded from the stable sounds Hampson and Dowson produced, together with field recordings and other electro acoustic sounds. When Dowson left the line-up in 1996, Main became a solo project for Hampson, who then abandoned the guitar altogether, feeling he had taken the instrument to such extremes, there was no longer any scope to create with it.
He deactivated Main as a project in 2006 in an attempt to free himself of the restraints of critical and fan based reviews that still mentioned the guitar as the focal point of the material, even though he had not used it in many years. He was quoted in interviews as saying the guitar was a chain around his neck and he was unhappy to be so strongly associated with it still.

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Robin Finck
Robin Finck (born November 7, 1971) is an American guitarist of Nine Inch Nails and former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses. He is one of only a few artists who has played in two different bands listed on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock"; Nine Inch Nails (ranked #43) and Guns N' Roses (ranked #9).
Finck grew up in Marietta, Georgia and played with several unsigned bands based primarily in the Atlanta area, including acts such as Prowess, Bat Your Lashes, Sik Dik (bandmates of which included Steve "Holiday" Childress and Michael Allen, currently of The Goodies and Greg Thum), and Impotent Sea Snakes.
He joined Nine Inch Nails as part of their touring band in 1994-95 for their Self-Destruct and Further Down the Spiral tours following the departure of previous guitarist Richard Patrick. Finck appeared with Nine Inch Nails at Woodstock '94, and saw his first official release with them, the Closure video, released in 1997. Once the tour was completed, he took a job playing for the circus troupe Cirque du Soleil in the original tour of Quidam. In 1997 Finck signed a two-year contract with Guns N' Roses as the replacement for Slash (who had quit the band at the end of the previous year) and began work on what was ultimately to become the band's long delayed album Chinese Democracy. When the two years were up the album had not been completed, although the song Oh My God was released on the End of Days soundtrack. Whether or not Finck played on the song is in dispute; GNR vocalist Axl Rose says he did while Finck himself says he did not.

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Saul Williams
Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam.
The youngest of three children, Williams was born in Newburgh, New York. He attended Newburgh Free Academy for high school, where he would write his song "Black Stacey." After graduating from Morehouse College with a B.A. in acting and philosophy, Williams moved to New York City to earn an MFA in Acting from New York University's prestigious Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts. There he found himself at the center of the New York cafe poetry scene.
Williams and artist Marcia Jones began their relationship in 1995 as collaborative artists on the Brooklyn performance art and spoken word circuit. Their daughter, Saturn, was born in 1996. His collection of poems S/HE is a series of reflections on the demise of the relationship. Marcia Jones, a visual artist and art professor, created the cover artwork for The Seventh Octave, images throughout S/HE in response to Williams, and set-designed his 2001 album Amethyst Rock Star. Saturn has recently been performing with her father on his 2008 concert tour.

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Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian (Western Armenian: Սերժ Թանգեան [ˈsɛɾʒ tʰɑnˈkʰjɑn]; born August 21, 1967) is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, songwriter, keyboardist, and occasional live rhythm guitarist of the rock band System of a Down.
During his musical career, Tankian has released five albums with System of a Down, one with Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Serart), as well as three solo albums Elect the Dead, Imperfect Harmonies and Harakiri. A live orchestral version of Elect the Dead incorporating the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra named Elect the Dead Symphony was released. In 2002, Tankian and Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello co-founded a non-profit political activist organization, Axis of Justice. Tankian also founded the music label Serjical Strike Records.
Tankian is ranked 26th in the Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time.

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Shin Terai
Shin Terai is a Japanese musician and producer most known for his work with Bill Laswell and Buckethead. On his albums he combines ambient and electronic music with dub and avant-garde jazz.
Shin Terai gained some first publicity as the singer of Chaos Face, a project by Laswell and Robert Musso. Second singer on Chaos Face's only album Doom Ride was Mick Harris, the former drummer of the metal band Napalm Death.
The first album under Shin Terai's own name was Unison, released in 1999. Guest musicians included Bernie Worrell and Nicky Skopelitis, besides Laswell and Buckethead. In 2004, Laswell reworked the material for the remix album Heaven & Hell. Intermediately Terai worked as producer of Soup, a trio consisting of Laswell, guitarist Otomo Yoshihide and drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigake (also playing trumpet).
In 2007, with Lightyears another album was released under his own name. It featured the core members Laswell, Buckethead and Worrell, besides Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet), Lili Hayden (violin), Karl Berger (strings), DXT (turntables) and Laswell's wife Gigi. Additionally, Aman Laswell (son of Gigi and Bill) can be heard gabbling. Lightyears was dedicated to him.

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Steven Adler
Steven Adler (born Michael Coletti; January 22, 1965) is an American musician. He is best known as the former drummer and co-songwriter of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s. Adler was fired from Guns N' Roses over his heroin addiction in 1990, following which he reformed his old band Road Crew and briefly joined BulletBoys, which both proved unsuccessful. During the 2000s, Adler was the drummer and frontman of the band Adler's Appetite, and since 2012, he has held the same positions in the band Adler. He appeared on the second and fifth seasons of the reality TV show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, as well as on the first season of its spin-off Sober House.
Adler was born Michael Coletti in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of an Italian-American father and a Jewish American mother. His father soon left, after which his mother, Deanna, moved the family to Los Angeles, California. He was renamed Steven in observance of Jewish traditions, and he took on the surname Adler from his mother's marriage to Melvin Adler. He has an older brother, Kenny, and a younger half-brother, Jamie. Adler grew up in the San Fernando Valley until the age of 13, when he was sent to live with his grandparents in Hollywood due to his bad behavior. At Bancroft Junior High, Adler befriended Saul Hudson, later known as Slash; they met when Adler had a skateboarding accident and Slash stopped to help him. After ninth grade, Adler returned to his parents' house in the Valley for the remainder of high school, during which he learned to play drums.

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Ted Parsons
Ted Parsons is an American drummer most notable for his membership in bands such as Swans, Prong,Godflesh,Killing Joke and Jesu.
Parsons' early career began in 1985 with Swans, when he contributed to their Holy Money album. He left Swans in 1987 and joined guitarist Tommy Victor's fledgling Prong. In 1994 he appeared on Buckethead's album Giant Robot. Prong would be Parsons' main project until the group disbanded in 1996. He then started a long-standing friendship with UK composer Justin Broadrick, playing on Godflesh's 1996 tour and their album, Hymns. Parsons has also played in Of Cabbages and Kings with former Swans bandmate Algis Kizys and was a one-time member of Foetus touring band.
Over the years, he has also recorded with members of Public Image Ltd., Legendary Pink Dots and Killing Joke, some of whom appear on his recent NIC remix project album. Youth of Killing Joke contributed a remix based on a Glen Brown/Sylford Walker dub tune. Some music journalists have noted that the cover art on the recent NIC remix album appears to be a hommage to early Killing Joke art and design style, in particular referencing the nihilistic anti Imperialist/anti war artwork of Mike Coles of Malicious Damage.^{[citation needed]} Parsons is a frequent member of Broadrick's Jesu project, and has his own dub group, Teledubgnosis.

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Tim Alexander
Tim "Herb" Alexander (born April 10, 1965 in Cherry Point, North Carolina) is an American musician, best known as the former drummer for the rock band Primus. Tim played on the Primus recordings Suck on This to Tales from the Punchbowl, before leaving the band in 1996, only to rejoin in 2003 for the EP Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People. He was a member of, and toured with, Primus from early 2003 until approximately 2009 when he was replaced by Jay Lane. Although Alexander has been quoted saying he was originally inspired to become a rock drummer by legendary drummers like John Bonham, Neil Peart and Shaun O'Connor, Primus guitarist Larry LaLonde claims Alexander's drum beats are mostly influenced by African Jùjú music.
Prior to joining Primus, he played and recorded with Major Lingo, which at the time was a ska-based rhythm band that featured a lap steel guitar as the lead instrument, played by Tony Bruno. When Major Lingo toured through the Bay Area Tim met members of Primus and would go on to remain there trying out for the band.

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Todd Huth
Todd Richard Huth (born March 13, 1963 in Pinole, California) is an American guitarist. He is best known as an original member of the band Primus, along with bassist/lyricist Les Claypool.
Huth and Claypool began playing together, along with a drum machine, in or around 1984, originally calling themselves Primate until about 1986 when they changed their band name to Primus. With the lineup of Huth, Claypool, and Lane, Primus became an underground sensation in and around San Francisco, prompting them to record a demo tape, Sausage, to distribute at their shows. Around 1989, however, with his wife expecting a child, Huth decided to leave Primus to dedicate time to his family. Huth was replaced by Larry LaLonde, an old friend of Claypool's who remains in the band to this day.
After Primus had enjoyed mainstream success with its de-facto lineup, Claypool, Huth, and Lane reunited to produce an album on Claypool's label, Prawn Song Records. Unable to use their original band name, Primus, the trio instead adopted the title of one of their original demos, Sausage. The album was entitled Riddles Are Abound Tonight. Huth formed a band, Porch, with former Today Is The Day bassist Christopher Frey and former Samiam drummer Dave Ayer. They released a single, eponymously-titled album on Mammoth Records (via Claypool's Prawn Song label) in 1994.

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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart.
Lyrically, Waits' songs frequently present atmospheric portrayals of grotesque, often seedy characters and places—although he has also shown a penchant for more conventional ballads. He has a cult following and has influenced subsequent songwriters despite having little radio or music video support. His songs are best-known through cover versions by more commercial artists: "Jersey Girl", performed by Bruce Springsteen, "Ol' '55", performed by the Eagles, and "Downtown Train", performed by Rod Stewart. Although Waits' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries. He has been nominated for a number of major music awards and has won Grammy Awards for two albums, Bone Machine and Mule Variations. In 2011, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Tommy Stinson
Thomas "Tommy" Eugene Stinson (born October 6, 1966) is an American musician best known for his work as the bassist for The Replacements and Guns N' Roses as well as the post-Replacements groups Bash & Pop, where he performed guitar duties, and Perfect. He released his debut solo album, Village Gorilla Head in 2004 and also joined Soul Asylum for the completion of their album, The Silver Lining, and the subsequent tour in 2006.
After beginning to learn the bass at the age of 11, Stinson began playing and covering songs with his brother, Bob Stinson, and drummer Chris Mars under the name "Dogbreath" without a singer. After recruiting singer Paul Westerberg, Dogbreath changed their name to The Impediments and played a drunken performance, without Tommy, at a church hall gig in June 1980. After being banned from the venue for disorderly behaviour, they changed their name to The Replacements.
After signing to Twin/Tone Records, by label owner Peter Jesperson who also became the group's manager, they released their debut album, Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash, in 1981 with an EP, Stink, following in 1982. The Replacements began to distance themselves from the hardcore punk scene after the release of Stink and, inspired by other rock subgenres, released their second album, Hootenanny, in April 1983. Hootenanny was played on over two hundred radio stations across the country, with critics acclaiming the album; The Village Voice's Robert Christgau deemed it "the most critically independent album of 1983". The band embarked on their first tour of the U.S. in April 1983, during this time Tommy dropped out of tenth grade to join the rest of the band on tour. The band toured cities such as Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia, but their intended destination was New York City, where they played at Gerde's Folk City and Maxwell's.

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Tracii Guns
Tracii Guns (born Tracy Richard Irving Ulrich on January 20, 1966) is an American guitarist best known as the founder of glam metal group L.A. Guns as well as the supergroups Brides of Destruction and Contraband. He was also very briefly involved in the formation of the first lineup of Guns N' Roses but eventually left the group and was replaced by guitarist Slash.
L.A. Guns was formed by Tracii in 1983 initially with singer Axl Rose, bassist Ole Beich, and drummer Rob Gardner. Rose then left to form the band Hollywood Rose with childhood friend Izzy Stradlin and guitarist Chris Weber. Michael Jagosz was brought in as his replacement and the group recorded the EP Collector's Edition No. 1 which would be the only release from the band with its current lineup and would be re–released as a bonus disc with compilation album Hollywood Raw.

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Travis Dickerson
Travis Dickerson is an American musician and producer, best known for his work with Buckethead and Viggo Mortensen. He also runs TDRSmusic, a recording studio with its own record label that has recorded and released albums by Bill Laswell, Jethro Tull, Linda Ronstadt, and Vince DiCola. Dickerson can be heard playing keyboards on many albums he recorded or produced.
Travis Dickerson was raised in Michigan, where his father, Burton Dickerson, was an arts teacher at the Central Michigan University. When Travis was ten years old, his father exchanged a painting for an old piano and Travis got it to work again.
Together with his brothers he early made some musical experiments, first recordings and later moved to Los Angeles where he met the punk band X. In his new studio in Chatsworth a bunch of the band's releases as well as some solo projects were recorded. Singer Exene Cervenka introduced Dickerson to Viggo Mortensen, starting a long friendship. Nearly all of Mortensen's albums since then were recorded or distributed by TDRS.

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Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. (born October 20, 1958) is an American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner (1991), Carlito's Way (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), Daylight (1996), The Portrait of a Lady (1996), G.I. Jane (1997), A Perfect Murder (1998), and A Walk on the Moon (1999).
Mortensen made his major breakthrough in 2001 with his role as Aragorn in the epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. In 2005, Mortensen won critical acclaim for David Cronenberg's crime thriller A History of Violence. Two years later, another Cronenberg film Eastern Promises (2007) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Other well-received films in recent years have included Appaloosa (2008) and the 2009 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road.
Aside from acting, his other artistic pursuits include fine arts, photography, poetry, and music. In 2002, he founded the Perceval Press to publish the works of little-known artists and authors. Mortensen is politically active. He campaigned for Dennis Kucinich in the 2008 United States presidential election, and later endorsed Barack Obama for President.

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West Arkeen
Aaron West Arkeen (June 18, 1960 – May 30, 1997), better known as West Arkeen, was an American musician best known for co-writing several Guns N' Roses songs. He died in Los Angeles as a result of a drug overdose.
Arkeen was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and grew up in San Diego, and started playing guitar at the age of 14. He was self-taught after having only a single guitar lesson. He spent hundreds of hours practicing with a metronome and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21 to pursue a career in the music industry.
After several years of struggling, he had befriended a group of fellow musicians, later to be known as Guns N' Roses. Arkeen co-wrote "It's So Easy," "Crash Diet [1]", "Bad Obsession", "The Garden" and "Yesterdays" for Guns N' Roses. Arkeen also penned "Make Your Play" and "Pressure" for Brother Cane, as well as co-wrote "My Misery" for Phantom Blue.
After working on other songs with the band for their double set Use Your Illusion I and II, Arkeen started his own project in 1995, The Outpatience, with vocalist Mike Shotton, bassist James Hunting, guitarist Joey Hunting, drummer Abe Laboriel Jr. and keyboardist Gregg Buchwalter. The band released their debut album, Anxious Disease (1996), in Japan and were shopping the record to labels in the United States. The album has strong connections to Guns N' Roses: Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan appear as guests and Izzy Stradlin co-wrote one of the songs.

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Bryan Mantia
Mantia (center) with Les Claypool (left) and Larry LaLonde.
Background information
Birth name	Bryan Kei Mantia
Also known as	Brain
Born	(1963-02-04) February 4, 1963 (age 49) Cupertino, California, United States
Genres	Rock, funk
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Drums
Years active	1984–present
Associated acts	Giant Robot, Praxis, Primus, Buckethead, Guns N' Roses, Godflesh, Pieces, El Stew, No Forcefield, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
Website	www.brainbeatz.com

Bryan "Brain" Mantia (born February 4, 1963 in Cupertino, California)^[1] is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead. He has also done session work for numerous artists and bands.

1 History
2 Equipment
3 Selected discography
4 References
5 External links

History [link]

Born in 1963 in the South Bay city of Cupertino, California to an Italian-American father and a Japanese American mother,^[2] Mantia became interested in such 'groove heavy' artists as James Brown, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix early on, but it wasn't until he was 16 years old that Mantia began playing drums. Shortly thereafter, Mantia acquired the nickname "Brain" while playing in a high school concert band, due to his obsession with the complex Anthony Cirone book, "Portraits in Rhythm." Mantia continued to perfect his drumming skills, by studying at such music schools as the Percussion Institute of Technology in Hollywood. The mid '80s saw Mantia join the San Francisco Bay Area funk-rock band, the Limbomaniacs, who broke up later in the decade, but reformed to issue a lone full-length in 1990, Stinky Grooves.

From there, Mantia played with a variety of other outfits, including M.I.R.V. (Cosmodrome, Feeding Time on Monkey Island), MCM and the Monster (Collective Emotional Problems), and Tom Waits (Bone Machine), before co-forming the funk/experimental supergroup, Praxis. Included in the group were Parliament/Funkadelic veterans Bootsy Collins (bass) and Bernie Worrell (keyboards), as well as masked guitarist Buckethead and producer Bill Laswell - resulting in multiple releases throughout the '90s, such as Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), Transmutation Live, and Warszawa. Mantia continued to work with Buckethead outside of Praxis - playing on such solo Buckethead albums as Giant Robot and Monsters and Robots.

The late '90s saw Mantia appear on releases by Godflesh (Songs of Love and Hate, Love and Hate in Dub) and longtime friends, Primus (whom Mantia was briefly a member of in 1989, before a broken foot led to his exit). His second go-around with Primus proved more fruitful, as Mantia toured extensively with the trio and played on the albums Brown Album, Rhinoplasty, and Antipop. Mantia also contributed to a side project with Larry Lalonde called No Forcefield, releasing two albums. Already boasting quite an impressive musical resume, it was about to get even greater, as Axl Rose invited Mantia to join his overhauled version of Guns N' Roses in 2000 (at the insistence of Buckethead, who was brought onboard as Slash's replacement). Mantia appeared with the group throughout sporadic live dates in 2001 and 2002, while continuing to lay down tracks for Guns N' Roses' long awaited studio album, 'Chinese Democracy'.^[3]

Brain's Lessons: Shredding Repis On the Gnar Gnar Rad is a VHS drum workshop Published by Alfred Publishing. In the video, Brain goes through some of the techniques he feels are important, including Go Go, Funk Patterns, the Ostinato and the Up Down Technique. The video is shot to look like a home movie and includes many humorous moments including a sit down steak dinner with his parents right in the middle of Brain "shredding" on a toy drum set. Although silly at times, the video is extremely informative for drummers looking to learn the hard grooves he is known for.

Mantia appears on several songs on BT's 2003 release Emotional Technology as well BT's score for the 2003 film Monster.

In the early summer of 2006, after 4 warm-up dates in New York City, Mantia toured Europe with Guns N' Roses. On June 21, 2006 it was announced he was taking a short break from the GN'R tour to spend time with his wife, who gave birth to a baby girl on July 4, 2006.^[4] Since leaving to be a father, replacement drummer Frank Ferrer has been performing in most of the band's shows. In the Fall of 2006, Ferrer was promoted to an official member of the band, which fueled speculation that Mantia had resigned or been fired from Guns N' Roses. As of November, 2008, Mantia is no longer listed on the band's official MySpace page. However, Axl Rose mentioned him "working on things for the band" during his fan-forum interviews in December 2008. In the liner notes for GN'R's 2008 album, Chinese Democracy, replacement drummer Frank Ferrer thanks Mantia, saying "[Frank Ferrer would like to thank]... Brain, God bless you and your family." Brain rejoined Guns N' Roses at their show at the House Of Blues on March 13, 2012 playing congas on a couple songs.

Equipment [link]

Drums [link]

DW Collector's Series Maple drums in Tony Williams Yellow Lacquer with Custom Yellow Hardware
18x24 Bass Drum
8x12, 9x13 Toms
16x16, 16x18 Floor Toms w/ Legs
6x14 Edge Snare

9000 Single Bass Drum Pedal
9500 Hi-Hat
9300 Snare Stand
9700 Straight/Boom Cymbal Stand (x6)
9900 Double Tom Stand (x2)
9100 Throne

Cymbals [link]

Zildjian
14" A Mastersound Hi-Hats
19" A Medium Thin Crash (2)
20" K CrashRide
20" A Deep Ride
20" A Medium Thin Crash
22" Oriental China "Trash"

Electronics [link]

Akai MPC 60 II, 3000 LE, 4000
Technics SL-1210MKZ Turntables with a M44Gs stylus
Vestax PMCO5PRO DJMixer

Selected discography [link]

Brain's Lessons: Shredding Repis On the Gnar Gnar Rad – 2002 instructional video
Brain's Worst Drum Instructional DVD Ever – 2008 instructional video

Limbomaniacs

Stinky Grooves - 1990

Praxis

Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) - 1992
Sacrifist - 1994
Metatron - 1994
Live in Poland - 1997
Transmutation Live - 1997
Warszawa - 1999
Tennessee 2004 - 2007
Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness) - 2008

Bullmark

Interstate 76 soundtrack - 1996

Giant Robot

Giant Robot - 1996

Godflesh

Songs of Love and Hate - 1996

Pieces

I Need 5 Minutes Alone - 1997

Primus

Brown Album - 1997
Rhinoplasty - 1998
Antipop - 1999

Buckethead

Colma - 1998
Monsters and Robots - 1999
Cuckoo Clocks Of Hell - 2004
Kevin's Noodle House - 2007
A Real Diamond in the Rough (tracks 2, 4, & 7) - 2009
Best Regards - 2010
Brain as Hamenoodle - 2010
Kind Regards - 2010

El Stew

No Hesitation - 1999

No Forcefield

Lee's Oriental Massage 415-626-1837 – 2000
God Is an Excuse – 2001

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

The Big Eyeball in the Sky - 2004

Serj Tankian

Elect the Dead - 2007
Imperfect Harmonies (track 10) - 2010

Buckethead and Travis Dickerson

The Dragons of Eden – 2008

Guns N' Roses

Chinese Democracy - 2008

Science Faxtion

Living On Another Frequency - 2008

Travis Dickerson

Iconography - 2009

References [link]

^ "Family Tree Legends". Family Tree Legends. http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/calbirths?c=search&first=Bryan&last=Mantia&spelling=Exact&4_year=&4_month=0&4_day=0&5=&7=&SubmitSearch.x=61&SubmitSearch.y=22&SubmitSearch=Submit. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
^ "Interview with Guns N' Roses drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia - TalkHumor.com". Wickedinfo.com. 2008-11-09. http://www.wickedinfo.com/content/view/321/1/. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
^ Prato, Greg (2002-10-02). "Brian "Brain" Mantia". AllMusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p156937/biography. Retrieved 2011-10-22.
^ "Guns N' Roses News". Here Today... Gone To Hell!. 2006-07-06. http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/news/shownews.php?newsid=1660. Retrieved 2011-10-22.

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v t e Primus

Les Claypool Larry LaLonde Jay Lane Bryan Mantia Todd Huth Tim Alexander

Studio albums	Frizzle Fry Sailing the Seas of Cheese Pork Soda Tales from the Punchbowl Brown Album Antipop Green Naugahyde

Live albums	Suck on This

Compilations	They Can't All Be Zingers

EPs	Miscellaneous Debris Rhinoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People June 2010 Rehearsal

Videos	Cheesy Home Video Videoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People Hallucino-Genetics Blame It on the Fish

Related articles	Discography Sausage (band) Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Oysterhead Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Les Claypool's Fancy Band Blind Illusion Possessed Guns N' Roses Prawn Song Records Lance Montoya

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Justin Broadrick G. C. Green Ted Parsons Paul Neville Robert Hampson Bryan Mantia Paul Raven

Studio albums	Streetcleaner Pure Selfless Songs of Love and Hate Us and Them Hymns

EPs	Godflesh Loopflesh Slavestate Cold World Merciless Messiah

Singles	"Slateman" "Crush My Soul"

Remix albums	Slavestate Remixes Love and Hate in Dub

Compilation albums	Slateman/Cold World Selfless/Merciless In All Languages

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Buckethead

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)
Giant Robot (1994)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
Colma (1998)
Monsters and Robots (1999)
Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)
Funnel Weaver (2002)
Bermuda Triangle (2002)
Electric Tears (2002)
Bucketheadland 2 (2003)
Island of Lost Minds (2004)
Population Override (2004)
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)
Enter the Chicken (2005)
Kaleidoscalp (2005)
Inbred Mountain (2005)
The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)
Crime Slunk Scene (2006)
Pepper's Ghost (2007)
Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)
Cyborg Slunks (2007)
Albino Slug (2008)
Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)
A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)
Forensic Follies (2009)
Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)
Shadows Between the Sky (2010)
Spinal Clock (2010)
Captain EO's Voyage (2010)
3 Foot Clearance (2010)
It's Alive (2011)
Empty Space (2011)
Underground Chamber (2011)
Look Up There (2011)
Electric Sea (2012)
Balloon Cement (2012)

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)
Acoustic Shards (2007)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)
From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)
Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)

Unreleased albums

Buckethead Plays Disney
Super Diorama Theater

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)
Disembodied (1997)
Tunnel (1999)
DCK (2007)
Monolith (2007)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

"Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994)
"Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994)
"Big Sur Moon" (1998)
"The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999)
"Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001)
"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004)
"We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005)
"Three Fingers" (2005)
Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006)
"The Landing Beacon" (2009)

with Artists

Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson	Running After Deer

Bryan "Brain" Mantia	Kevin's Noodle House Brain as Hamenoodle

Brain and Melissa Reese	Best Regards Kind Regards

Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve	Octave of the Holy Innocents

Travis Dickerson	Chicken Noodles Chicken Noodles II Iconography Left Hanging

Travis Dickerson and Brain	The Dragons of Eden

Shin Terai	Unison Heaven & Hell Lightyears

Viggo Mortensen	One Less Thing to Worry About Recent Forgeries The Other Parade One Man's Meat Pandemoniumfromamerica Please Tomorrow This, That, and The Other Intelligence Failure At All Reunion

with Bands

Deli Creeps	Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1991 Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1996 Dawn of the Deli Creeps

Praxis	Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) Sacrifist Metatron Live in Poland Transmutation Live Collection Warszawa Zurich Tennessee 2004 Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)

Cornbugs	Spot the Psycho Cemetery Pinch How Now Brown Cow Brain Circus Donkey Town Rest Home for Robots Skeleton Farm Celebrity Psychos Quackers! Headcheese

Thanatopsis	Thanatopsis Axiology Anatomize

Guns N' Roses	Chinese Democracy

Cobra Strike	13th Scroll Cobra Strike II: Y, Y+B, X+Y <hold> ←

Bands:
Pieces
Giant Robot
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
Gorgone
Science Faxtion
Frankenstein Brothers

Others:
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Name	Mantia, Bryan
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Date of birth	February 4, 1963
Place of birth	Cupertino, California, United States
Date of death
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Vic Firth
Vic Firth (2006)
Background information
Born	(1930-06-02) June 2, 1930 (age 82) Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupations	Musician, business owner
Instruments	Percussion instruments, cornet, trombone, clarinet, piano
Years active	1940s - Present
Website	VicFirth.com

Vic Firth is an American musician and is the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a percussion stick and mallet manufacturing company that he started in 1963.^[1] The company bills itself as the world's largest manufacturer of drum sticks and mallets.^[2] Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company's products are manufactured in Newport, Maine.

On December 20, 2010, it was announced that Vic Firth, Inc. had merged with Avedis Zildjian Company.^[3] According to the announcement, both companies will continue to run autonomously.^[3]

1 Vic Firth
2 Vic Firth Company
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

Vic Firth [link]

Vic Firth was born June 2, 1930, in Winchester, Massachusetts.^[4] He was raised in Maine by parents Everett E. and Rosemary Firth. Son of a successful trumpet player, he started learning the cornet from the age of four, turning over to percussion at an older age, as well as learning to play the trombone, clarinet, piano, and studying music arrangement. When he reached high school he was a full time percussionist, creating an 18-piece band at the age of 16. He played a variety of percussion instruments such as vibraphone, timpani and the drum set. Firth is now an accomplished percussionist with his own percussion corporation that produces sticks and mallets.

Vic Firth Company [link]

Vic Firth Company
Type	Private
Industry	Manufacturer of percussion sticks and mallets, salt and pepper mills, and rolling pins
Founded	1963
Number of locations	2 Boston, Massachusetts (headquarters) Newport, Maine (manufacturing)
Key people	Vic Firth, Founder
Website	VicFirth.com

The company began when Firth, who had been performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 12 years, was asked to perform pieces which he felt required a higher quality drumstick than those that were currently being manufactured. Firth decided to design a set of his own sticks.^[1]

Firth hand-whittled the first sticks himself from bulkier sticks and sent these prototypes to a wood turner in Montreal. The two prototypes that he sent would become the SD1 and SD2, the first two models of sticks ever manufactured by the Vic Firth, Inc.. As Firth himself states: "It came out of necessity not of imagination or my ability to start a company." Although the sticks were initially intended for Firth's personal use, they gained popularity among his students and were eventually carried by retailers.

Today, the Vic Firth Company product line has grown from the SD1 and SD2 to approximately 300 products in its catalog, and the company manufactures 12 million sticks a year.^[1]

The company's current range of products also includes a line of pepper mills, salt grinders, and rolling pins sold under the Vic Firth Gourmet brand.^[5]

References [link]

^ ^a ^b ^c http://www.vicfirth.com/features/vic_firth_company_history.html
^ http://www.vicfirth.com/
^ ^a ^b "Vic Firth Company and Avedis Zildjian Company Announce Merger". VicFirth.com. http://www.vicfirth.com/families-unite/. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
^ "Vic Firth Company Founder: Vic Firth". http://www.vicfirth.com/artists/vicfirth.php. Retrieved 2012-01-23.
^ http://www.vicfirthgourmet.com/

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Name	Firth, Vic
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Place of birth	Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.
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Place of death	Sanford, Me

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This article is about the English cricketer Brian Brain. For the band of the same name, see Martin Atkins.

**Brian Brain**
Personal information

Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right arm fast-medium
International information
National side	English
Career statistics
Competition	First-class	List A
Matches	259	204
Runs scored	1,704	497
Batting average	8.39	8.28
100s/50s	0/1	0/0
Top score	57	33
Balls bowled	41,028	9,776
Wickets	824	290
Bowling average	24.50	20.14
5 wickets in innings	33	0
10 wickets in match	6	N/A
Best bowling	8-55	4-13
Catches/stumpings	50/0	36/0
Source: Cricinfo,

Brian Maurice Brain (born 13 September 1940 in Worcester) is a former English cricketer whose career with Worcestershire and Gloucestershire stretched over more than two decades. He was capped by Worcestershire in 1966 and by Gloucestershire in 1977.^[1]

After turning in some good performances in the Worcestershire second team, Brain was selected to make his first-class debut against Oxford University in late June 1959. He took five wickets in the match (his first being that of Oxford captain Alan Smith), but played only one further first-class game that season, against Somerset in the County Championship. He took 4-53 in the first innings, but was not to make another first-team appearance for almost five years.

After some more eye-catching figures in the second team (7-29 against Nottinghamshire II; 8-79 against Kent II) in 1964, Brain finally played first-class cricket again, facing Cambridge University at Halesowen. He took only one wicket, but was retained for the Championship game which followed (coincidentally this was also against Somerset), and in this match he excelled, taking 6-93 and 4-73 as Worcestershire won by 122 runs. Although he dropped out of the side thereafter, he returned as a regular from mid-August to the end of the season, finishing with 31 wickets at 24.19.

He went on Worcestershire's tour of Rhodesia in 1964-65, one of only two occasions on which Brain played overseas (the other being the county's tour of West Indies the following winter). He played in one of the two first-class games against the Rhodesians, then back in England for the 1965 season he appeared 12 times, taking five or more wickets in an innings three times to finish with 44 first-class victims. In that season he also played his first List A cricket, against Sussex in the Gillette Cup: his first two victims in one-day cricket were Ted Dexter and Jim Parks.

For most of the rest of the 1960s, Brain continued to play a dozen games a season or slightly more, as well as just a handful of one-day matches, and to pick up around 40 wickets a year. In 1969, however, he played 19 times in first-class cricket and snared 73 wickets at just over 25 runs apiece; he also appeared 13 times in one-day cricket, albeit with considerably less success. In 1970 he played only seven first-class matches, then for the next two seasons he was entirely a one-day player, turning out 20 times in List A cricket but not at all in the longer form of the game.

The 1973 season saw Brain make his return to first-class duties, and he immediately delivered, taking 84 wickets at 19.29 that year, a career best tally that he was to equal (at an average only slightly higher) the following summer. Those two seasons also saw him pick up 58 one-day wickets, while in the Championship he took 6-36 against Gloucestershire in July 1973. His form dipped a little in 1975, but he still took more than 50 first-class wickets, including a career-best 8-55 against Essex in late May; that performance was in vain, however, as a second-innings Worcestershire collapse saw them lose by 29 runs.

For the 1976 season, Brain moved to Gloucestershire, and though he started relatively slowly with 41 first-class wickets in that first year, in the following seasons he claimed 77. He also scored his only first-class half-century, scoring 57 against Essex. This was a somewhat startling scorecard entry, as in his other eleven innings that season his highest score was just 6! The following summer he took 76 first-class wickets, managing his best bowling for his new county when he recorded 7-51 against the touring Australians in May. That season also saw him achieve his highest season's total of List A wickets: he dismissed 34 victims, at an outstanding bowling average of only 14.55.

Now approaching forty years old, Brain's form began to tail off, although he was still good enough to take a total of 106 first-class and 46 List A wickets in the next two seasons, with 6-68 against Glamorgan in May 1980 a highlight of his later years. He took his last first-class wicket (John Barclay) against Sussex in July 1981, although he did play two further Championship games without reward. His final List A game was for Minor Counties against Leicestershire in the 1982 Benson and Hedges Cup; he picked up the wickets of ex-Test cricketers Chris Balderstone and Roger Tolchard.

References [link]

^ Playfair Cricket Annual, 1981 edition, p76.

External links [link]

Player profile: Brian Brain from ESPNcricinfo
Statistical summary from CricketArchive

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Name	Brain, Brian
Alternative names
Short description	English cricketer
Date of birth	13 September 1940
Place of birth
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Tim "Herb" Alexander

Background information
Birth name	Tim Alexander
Also known as	"Herb"
Born	(1965-04-10) April 10, 1965 (age 47) Cherry Point, North Carolina, U.S.
Genres	Rock
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Drums, vocals, guitar
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Prawn Song, Interscope

Tim "Herb" Alexander (born April 10, 1965 in Cherry Point, North Carolina) is an American musician, best known as the former drummer for the rock band Primus.^[1] Tim played on the Primus recordings Suck on This to Tales from the Punchbowl, before leaving the band in 1996, only to rejoin in 2003 for the EP Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People. He was a member of, and toured with, Primus from early 2003 until approximately 2009 when he was replaced by Jay Lane. Although Alexander has been quoted saying he was originally inspired to become a rock drummer by legendary drummers like John Bonham, Neil Peart and Shaun O'Connor, Primus guitarist Larry LaLonde claims Alexander's drum beats are mostly influenced by African Jùjú music.

Prior to joining Primus, he played and recorded with Major Lingo, which at the time was a ska-based rhythm band that featured a lap steel guitar as the lead instrument, played by Tony Bruno. When Major Lingo toured through the Bay Area Tim met members of Primus and would go on to remain there trying out for the band.

Following Alexander's departure from Primus, he went on to form his own group, Laundry. Alexander released two albums with the band Laundry; Blacktongue and Motivator. Alexander has also collaborated with experimental bass player Michael Manring and guitarist Alex Skolnick to form the group known as Attention Deficit.

Alexander was the first drummer of A Perfect Circle, performing early live shows with the band, and recording drums for the track "The Hollow" on the band's debut album, Mer de Noms. He is listed as a member in the band's DVD/CD release aMOTION.

Alexander joined the theatrical group Blue Man Group, and has occasionally played with the Las Vegas-based improvisational rock band Uberschall.

Despite being primarily known for his drum work Alexander is an accomplished guitarist and singer. He performed live guitar with the group Born Naked and held the lead vocal duties on Laundry's second album and supporting tour.

Alexander was involved throughout 2008-09 in a project known as Into The Presence which features songs by Luis Carlos Maldonado. Their debut album was released on Razor and Tie Records and includes performances from bassist Paz Lenchantin and cellist Ana Lenchantin. Both Into The Presence and the Fata Morgana release were recorded and produced at Alexander's own Ghost Town Studios.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2010 Alexander is actively involved as a member of Maynard James Keenan's Puscifer project. He has toured with them and can be heard on their most recent released recordings.

1 Personal life
2 Discography
3 Equipment
4 References
5 External links

Personal life [link]

While his nickname, "Herb", could be construed as a cannabis reference, Alexander does not smoke marijuana, unlike his former Primus bandmates Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde.^[2] Rumor has it that he was given this nickname due to his consistent use of herbal nutritional supplements.

Discography [link]

Primus [link]

Suck on This (1989)
Frizzle Fry (1990)
Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991)
Miscellaneous Debris (1992)
Pork Soda (1993)
Tales from the Punchbowl (1995)
Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People (2003)

Laundry [link]

Blacktongue (1994)
Motivator (1999)

A Perfect Circle [link]

Mer de Noms (2000) (Appears on "The Hollow")

Equipment [link]

Drums: TAMA,

18"x20" Bass Drum
16"x18" Bass Drum
5.5"x14" Bronze PBZ355 Snare Drum
6"x14" Starclassic G Maple Snare Drum
8"x8" Tom Tom
9"x10" Tom Tom
10"x12" Tom Tom
14"x14" Floor Tom
14"x20" Gong Bass Drum
16"x16" Floor Tom
Octoban Low-Pitch Set

Hardware: TAMA, many various boom and straight cymbal stands

Cymbals: Zildjian,

9.5" & 6" Zil-Bells
13" Z Custom Dyno Beat Hi-Hats
18",17" & 16" A Medium Crashes
18" A Rock Crash
6" & 8" A splash
12" A Special Recording Hi-Hats
13" A New-Beat Hi-Hats
18" Oriental China Trash
22" K Custom Ride.

Sticks: Zildjian, Tim Alexander Artist Series (16" length, 0.53" diameter)

Heads: REMO

References [link]

^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas; Prato, Greg. "Biography: Primus". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5181/biography. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
^ Kenneally, Tim (July 1994). "The Secret Life of Primus". High Times (227). ISSN 0362630X.

External links [link]

v t e Primus

Les Claypool Larry LaLonde Jay Lane Bryan Mantia Todd Huth Tim Alexander

Studio albums	Frizzle Fry Sailing the Seas of Cheese Pork Soda Tales from the Punchbowl Brown Album Antipop Green Naugahyde

Live albums	Suck on This

Compilations	They Can't All Be Zingers

EPs	Miscellaneous Debris Rhinoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People June 2010 Rehearsal

Videos	Cheesy Home Video Videoplasty Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People Hallucino-Genetics Blame It on the Fish

Related articles	Discography Sausage (band) Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade Oysterhead Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains Les Claypool's Fancy Band Blind Illusion Possessed Guns N' Roses Prawn Song Records Lance Montoya

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v t e A Perfect Circle

Josh Freese Billy Howerdel Maynard James Keenan James Iha Matt McJunkins Tim Alexander Troy Van Leeuwen Paz Lenchantin Danny Lohner Jeordie White

Studio albums	Mer de Noms Thirteenth Step eMOTIVe

Extended plays	Deep Cuts

Box sets	aMOTION

Singles	"Judith" "3 Libras" "The Hollow" "Weak and Powerless" "The Outsider" "Blue" "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" "Imagine" "Passive"

Related articles	Discography Ashes Divide Puscifer Tapeworm Tool Nine Inch Nails A Perfect Circle 2011 Tour

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Terry Bozzio
Terry Bozzio performing with Fantômas at Quart Festival, Norway on July 9, 2005.
Background information
Birth name	Terry John Bozzio
Also known as	Terry "Ted" Bozzio
Born	(1950-12-27) December 27, 1950 (age 61) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Genres	Rock, jazz/fusion,^[1]^[2] synthpop, classical, alternative, progressive
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Drums, percussion, keyboards
Years active	1972–present
Associated acts	Frank Zappa, UK, Missing Persons, HoBoLeMa, Jeff Beck, Korn, Fantômas, Debbie Harry
Website	www.terrybozzio.com

Terry John Bozzio (December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa.^[3]

1 Biography
2 Musical innovation
3 Current drum kit setup
4 Selected discography
5 References
6 External links

Biography [link]

Terry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets. At the age of 13 he saw The Beatles premier performance on The Ed Sullivan Show,^[3] and begged his father for drum lessons.^[4] During the 1960s, he played in the garage bands Blue Grass Radio, The Yarde, and Tamalpais Jungle Mountain Boys.

In 1968 Bozzio attended Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, where he received a music scholarship award, and later went on to the College of Marin. During this time he studied concurrently with Chuck Brown on the drum set and Lloyd Davis and Roland Kohloff on a percussion and timpani scholarship. He also played Bartok-Dahl-Cowell & Baroque chamber ensembles with the Marin and Napa County Symphonies.

In 1972 Bozzio played in the rock musicals Godspell and Walking in my Time. He also began playing in local jazz groups with Mark Isham, Peter Maunu, Patrick O'Hearn, Mike Knock, Art Lande, Azteca, Eddie Henderson, Woody Shaw, Julian Priester, Eric Gravatt, Billy Higgins, Andy Narell, Hadley Calliman, Mel Graves, and Mel Martin. He became a regular in the Monday Night Jim Dukey Big Band at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall.

He recorded and toured with Frank Zappa beginning in 1975, and appeared in the concert movie Baby Snakes (which included him singing lead on a portion of the song "Punky's Whips"). He is noted for performing Zappa's "The Black Page", a piece of music designed to be a "musician's nightmare" a page so filled with notes as to be almost black.

In 1977 he joined The Brecker Brothers with long time San Francisco friend and guitarist Barry Finnerty. With The Brecker Brothers, Bozzio toured and recorded the album "Heavy Metal Be-Bop." Shortly after, he was dismissed by Zappa as he joined Group 87 with Mark Isham, Peter Maunu, Patrick O'Hearn and Peter Wolf. The group auditioned for and got a record deal with CBS; Bozzio declined membership in the group and then auditioned unsuccessfully for Thin Lizzy.

After Bill Bruford & Allan Holdsworth departure from the band UK in late 1978, Bozzio joined Eddie Jobson and John Wetton to continue UK as a trio. The trio recorded Danger Money and Night After Night and toured the US twice (supporting Jethro Tull), as well as Europe and Japan. After UK disbanded in early 1980, Bozzio, ex-Zappa guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and then-wife and vocalist Dale Bozzio founded the band Missing Persons. Missing Persons released the albums Spring Session M (which went Gold), Rhyme & Reason, and Color in Your Life. They also toured the US & Europe and appeared on TV and radio shows.

After Missing Persons breakup in 1986, Bozzio joined ex-Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor's solo band. He also played on sessions with Robbie Robertson, Gary Wright, Don Dokken, XYZ, Paul Hyde, Herbie Hancock, Dweezil Zappa, and Richard Marx. During this time he also began touring as a clinician/solo drummer and recorded Solo Drums which was his first instructional video for WB. Bozzio also joined Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck to make the video Throwaway, and teamed up with Beck & keyboardist Tony Hymas to co-write/produce and perform on the Grammy Award winning album Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop.

In 1988 Bozzio married Ev Kvamme. They have one son.

Between the years of 1990–1995 Terry developed ostinato-based drum solo compositions and recorded his second instructional video Melodic Drumming and the Ostinato Volumes 1, 2, and 3, as well as Solo Drum Music Volumes 1 & 2 on CD. He also joined Tony Hymas, Toney Coe, and Hugh Burns to form the band Lonely Bears and record The Lonely Bears, Injustice, and The Bears are Running, while living in Paris, France. He also formed the band Polytown with David Torn and Mick Karn.

From 1995 to 2002 Bozzio did tours of the US, Australia, Canada & Europe as a solo drum artist as well as recording two solo CDs: Drawing the Circle and Chamberworks. He also teamed up with Chad Wackerman to produce the Duets video and Alternative Duets CDs. Bozzio was inducted into the Modern Drummer "Hall of Fame" and won the Clinician of the Year award twice as well as Drum Magazine's Drummer of the Year and Best Clinician. Internationally, he received Schlagwerkrant Magazine's (Netherlands) and Player Magazine's (Japan) Best Drummer Award.

Bozzio was inducted into Guitar Center's RockWalk in Hollywood on January 17, 2007^[5] along with rock and roll icons Ronnie James Dio and Slash. Bozzio also worked with the nu-metal band Korn on their 8th studio album after the departure of their drummer David Silveria. He was scheduled to play on the road with the band during the Family Values Tour, but he left and was replaced by Joey Jordison of Slipknot and later Ray Luzier.

Since November 2008 Bozzio has toured with guitarist Allan Holdsworth, bassist Tony Levin, and drummer Pat Mastelotto as the experimental super-group HoBoLeMa. He has also hosted on Drum Channel.

UK have recently reformed with John Wetton, Eddie Jobson and Terry Bozzio for a world tour in 2012.

Musical innovation [link]

Terry Bozzio performing live with the SS Bozzio.

In most of Bozzio’s works, the ostinato is played using various bass drum and hi-hat permutations while he solos against these rhythms using his hands. Sometimes (often in the same composition) the opposite is true, where he will hold an ostinato pattern with his hands and solo with his feet.

Current drum kit setup [link]

Below is Terry's drum setup ^[6]

Drums [link]

Vertical Low Timbre drums in olive ash burl finish with satin chrome lugs and black powdercoat rims. All heads are Terry Bozzio Attack signature in clear mylar

10" snare tuned to D
13 - 8" × 3" piccolo toms - tuned from high C to a low C
12" solid craviotto snare tuned to B
8" × 3" piccolo tom tuned to Bb

8" × 6" tom tuned to A
4 - 10"x 6" toms G-F-E-D
10" × 8" tuned to C
12" × 6" tuned to B

12" × 8" tuned to A
13" × 9" tuned to G
14" × 10" tuned to F
16" × 12" tuned to E

Cymbals [link]

All cymbals are Sabian Radia Terry Bozzio signatures.

21" ride
16" china below 8"china
18" china below 10"china
14" china w/12"crash stack below 7"china w/6"crash stack
16" china w/14"crash stack below 8"china w/7"crash stack
18" china w/16"crash stack below 10"china w/8"crash stack
20" china w/18"crash stack below 12"china w/10"crash stack
20" china below 12"china
22" china below 14"china

36" Chinese gong (behind right w/beater on cym boom)
10" hihats
left remote china hi hat 16" over 18"
spoxe hi hat
12" hi hats
lp tambourine
12" heavy bell under 8" cup chime
11" heavy bell under 7¹⁄₂" cup chime
10" heavy bell under 7" cup chime

9" heavy bell under 6¹⁄₂" cup chime
20" flat ride w/20"china stack, under closed14" flat bottom hi hats, under factory metal, under pete englehardt ribbon crasher
26" B-20 radia gong on dw custom 3 point gong holder designed by Terry
20" crash w/20" novo type china stack
right remote china hi hat 16" over 20"
6" closed flat bottom mini hihat
7" closed flat bottom mini hihat

Foot operated [link]

12" Chinese gong or
8" × 3" foot tom tuned to
10" × foot tom tuned to
12" × foot tom tuned to
10" hi hat
Vic firth/emil richards jingle stick
Wooded headed tambourine

12" wooden headed djembe
16" × bd tuned to F
remote china hi hat 16" over 18"
20" × 12" bd tuned to C
spoxe hi hat
12" hi hats
20" × 16" main left kick drum (muffled) tuned to Bb

Metal tambourine shaker or tb special tambourine foot plate jingle device
20" × 16" main right kick drum (muffled) tuned to G
24" × 14" bd tuned to A (w/ akg d-112 may mic)
right remote hi hats 16" over 20"
18" × bd tuned to D
18" × bd tuned to E
20" × 8" bd tuned to B

Other [link]

Glockenspiel

36" wuhan Chinese gong

One octave set of wuhan Chinese bossed gongs

Selected discography [link]

Frank Zappa [link]

Bongo Fury (October 1975), US #66
Zoot Allures (October 1976), US #71
Zappa in New York (March 1977), US #57
Studio Tan (1978)
Sleep Dirt (January 1979), US #175
Sheik Yerbouti (March 1979), US #21
Joe's Garage (September 1979), US #27 (vocals only)
Orchestral Favorites (1979)
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (May 1981)
Baby Snakes (March 1983)
Thing-Fish (November 1984)
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 1 (May 1988)
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 3 (November 1989)
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (July 1991)
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5 (July 1992)
You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 6 (July 1992)
Läther (September 1996)
Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute (October 1996)
The Lost Episodes (1996)

Missing Persons [link]

Missing Persons EP (1980) #46 US
Spring Session M (1982) #17 US
Rhyme & Reason (1984) #43 US
Color in Your Life (1986) #88 US
Late Nights Early Days (1999)
Lost Tracks (2002)

UK [link]

Danger Money (1979) (Replaced Bill Bruford)
Night After Night (1979, Live)

Dweezil Zappa [link]

Back to the Beach Soundtrack (Wipe Out) with Herbie Hancock (1987)
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama (1988)
Shampoohorn (1994)
Automatic (2000)

Other [link]

Born To Love You Luis Gasca (1974)
Eye of the Beholder Ray Baretto (1977)
Heavy Metal Be-Bop Brecker Brothers (1978)
Group 87 Group 87 (1980)
Andy Taylor Andy Taylor (1986)
Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson (1987)
Castalia Mark Isham (1988)
Rivers Gonna Rise Patrick O'Hearn (1988)
Who I Am Gary Wright (1988)
Def, Dumb and Blonde Deborah Harry (1989)
El Dorado Patrick O'Hearn (1989)
How Long Michael Thompson (1989)
Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop Jeff Beck & Tony Hymas (1989)
Twins Soundtrack Jeff Beck (1989)
Girlfriend from Hell Jorgenson (1990)
Mark Isham Mark Isham (1990)
Up From The Ashes Dokken (1990)
Beckology Jeff Beck (1991)
In Your Face Earl Slick (1991)
Rush Street Richard Marx (1991)
Retrograde Planet Zazen (1992)
Vol. Pour Sydney Lonely Bears (1992)
White Sands Soundtrack Patrick O'Hearn
Sex and Religion Steve Vai (1993)
Big Bang: In the Beginning Was a Drum Compilation (1994)
Hide Your Face hide (1994)
Polytown Polytown (1994)
First Signs of Life Gary Wright (1995)
Thank You Duran Duran (1995)
Trust Patrick O'Hearn (1995)
Black Light Syndrome Bozzio Levin Stevens (1997)
Dream Castles Sly (1997)
Something With a Pulse Mark Craney & Friends (1997)
Age of Impact Explorer's Club (1998)
Best of the Lonely Bears Lonely Bears (1998)
Proof: The Very Best of the Knack The Knack (1998)
Zoom The Knack (1998)
Lonely Bears Lonely Bears (1999)
Injustice Lonely Bears (2000)
Situation Dangerous Bozzio Levin Stevens (2000)
The Bears are Running Lonely Bears (2000)
Compression Billy Sheehan (2001)
Feeding The Wheel Jordan Rudess (2001)
XYZ XYZ (2001)
Big Delta Omar & The Howlers (2002)
Delete & Roll Bozzio Preinfalk & Machacek (2002)
Queen of the Damned Soundtrack Jonathan Davis, Richard Gibbs (2002)
Raising The Mammoth The Explorers Club (2002)
Bozzio - Mastelotto with Pat Mastelotto (2003)
Alamo Soundtrack Carter Burwell (2004)
Boogie Man Omar & The Howlers (2004)
Drum Nation, Vol. 1 Various Artists (2004)
Two Sides of If Vivian Campbell (2005)
Sic Alex Machacek (2006)
Untitled Korn (2007)
Live with the Tosca Strings DVD (2008)

References [link]

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^ "Avantgarde Music. Mark Isham: biography, discography, reviews, links". Scaruffi.com. http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/isham.html. Retrieved 2011-10-06.
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