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DrummerA Drummer is a person who plays the drums. He or she may also be a Musical Artist or a Musical Group Member.This type has no properties...
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| x Chuck Sabo |
Chuck Sabo is a rock drummer. He has worked primarily as a session musician.
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| x Aaron Smith |
Aaron "The A-Train" Smith is a Nashville-based drummer and percussionist.
At the age of 21, Aaron Smith played drums on The Temptations' megahit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (which was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and won three Grammy Awards in...
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| x Alex MacDougall |
Alex MacDougall is a record producer, and percussionist. MacDougall is best known for being a member of the Christian rock band Daniel Amos in the late 1970s in addition to his production and recording session credits. He was also a member of Selah,...
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| x Ed McTaggart |
Ed McTaggart (born July 10, 1951) is an America drummer and artist. McTaggart is best known as the drummer with the rock band Daniel Amos.
McTaggart joined DA in 1976, after years of playing with Bill Sprouse Jr.'s band The Road Home.
In the 1980s,...
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| x Abe Cunningham |
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Abe Cunningham, born in Sacramento, California on July 27, 1973, is an American musician; he plays the drums in the alternative rock band Deftones and has also performed with Phallucy. He is known for his use of ghost notes and other technical...
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| x Tim Alexander |
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Tim "Herb" Alexander (born April 10, 1965 in Cherry Point, North Carolina) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Primus. Tim played on the Primus recordings Suck on This, Frizzle Fry, Sailing the Seas of Cheese,...
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| x Brian Migdol |
Brian Migdol was the original drummer for Black Flag, from 1976 to the fall of 1978. He played on the Nervous Breakdown EP and parts of Everything Went Black, the Nervous Breakdown EP can also be heard on Black Flag's The First Four Years. His name...
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| x Anthony Martinez |
Anthony Martinez was the last drummer for Black Flag. He did not record any studio material, but can be heard on the live album Who's Got the 10½? and live EP Annihilate This Week. He played with the band for a very brief period, from late 1985...
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| x Joe Daniels |
Joe Daniels (August 4, 1970) started his career as a drummer in Zion, Illinois. Son of Joe Daniels Sr., a Blues musician, Joe William Daniels began playing drums at Age 2 and has gone on to be a commercial success as a drummer with band Local H...
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| x Bud Gaugh |
Floyd "Bud" Gaugh (born October 2, 1967) is a rock music drummer who played in the bands Sublime (1988-1996), Long Beach Dub Allstars (1997-2002), Eyes Adrift (2002-2003) Volcano (2004) Del Mar (2006-present).
He met bassist Eric Wilson in 1979 and...
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| x Chuck Biscuits |
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Charles Theodore Montgomery (born April 17, 1965), better known as Chuck Biscuits is a drummer who has played with numerous bands, including Victorian Pork, D.O.A., Pointed Sticks, Subhumans, Randy Rampage, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Descendents,...
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| x Bun E. Carlos |
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Bun E. Carlos (born Brad Carlson June 12, 1951 in Rockford, Illinois) is the drummer for American rock band Cheap Trick. He is the band's chief setlister and archivist, and maintains recordings of all the band's shows, some of which have been...
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| x Emil Johnson |
Emil Johnson (born ca. 1966) was the third drummer for Black Flag during the first half of 1982. He played on the TV Party EP, but soon left the band to go to college. Other accounts say that he got into a dispute involving a girl with SST employee...
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| x Tony Fagenson |
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Tony Fagenson (born Anthony Edward Fagenson July 18, 1978) is the drummer for rock band Eve 6 before it disbanded in 2004. He was attending the University of Southern California and was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity when he auditioned with...
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| x Eric Kretz |
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Eric Kretz (born June 7, 1966) is an American musician and producer, known as the drummer for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots, one of the most successful rock bands of the 1990s and early 2000s that reunited in 2008. He has also played for Talk...
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| x John Densmore |
John Paul Densmore (born December 1, 1944) is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer of the rock group The Doors from 1965 to 1973.
Born in Los Angeles, Densmore attended Santa Monica City College and Cal. State...
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| x Ed Blackwell |
Ed Blackwell (October 10, 1929 – October 7, 1992) was an American free jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana. While album credits typically listed him as "Ed Blackwell," he preferred to be called Edward. Most of his close associates, including...
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| x Clyde Stubblefield |
Clyde Stubblefield (born April 18, 1943 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is a drummer best known for his work with James Brown.
Stubblefield's recordings with James Brown are considered to be some of the standard-bearers for funk drumming, including the...
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| x Hal Blaine |
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Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky 5 February 1929, Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American drummer and session musician. He is most known for his work with the Wrecking Crew in California. Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups,...
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| x Brian Blade |
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Brian Blade (born July 25, 1970 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American jazz and rock drummer, composer, and singer-songwriter.
Blade made his first recorded appearances as a sideman with Kenny Garrett and Joshua Redman and continued to work as a...
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| x Milford Graves |
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Milford Graves (b. Queens, NY, August 20, 1941) is an American-born jazz drummer and percussionist, most noteworthy for his early avant-garde contributions in the early 1960s with Paul Bley and the New York Art Quartet. He is considered by many...
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| x Roy Haynes |
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Roy Owen Haynes (born on March 13, 1925, in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is one of the most recorded drummers in jazz and in his over 60-year career has played in a wide range of...
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| x George Tutuska |
George Tutuska is a former member of the alternative rock band Goo Goo Dolls.
He played drums from 1986 to 1995, and parted from the band only a few months before the release of their breakthrough album, A Boy Named Goo due to disputes with long...
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| x Gar Samuelson |
Gary C. "Gar" Samuelson (June 12, 1958 in Dunkirk, New York - July 22, 1999 in Orange City, Florida), was the drummer for the thrash metal band Megadeth from 1984 through 1987.
Little is known about Gar before Megadeth, however it is known that he...
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| x Frankie Banali |
Frankie Banali, born November 14, 1951, is an American drummer best known for being the former drummer of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot. He has also been the band's manager for the past decade. He also played drums in the heavy metal band W.A.S.P....
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| x Jeremiah Green |
Jeremiah Martin Green (born March 4, 1977) is the drummer and founding member of the indie rock band Modest Mouse from 1993 to March 2003, and again from July 2004. Currently, he is one of two drummers for the band, with Joe Plummer.
He was born in...
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| x Pete Sims |
Peter Sims (born April 7, 1938 in New York City) is an American jazz drummer, who has performed for much of his career under the Pete La Roca moniker. He adopted that name early in his musical career when he was a timbales player in Latin bands....
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| x Carl Allen |
Carl Allen (born 1961) is an American jazz drummer. Before finishing college he had begun to work as Freddie Hubbard's drummer, a position he held for eight years. He was later a member of The Message and led Carl Allen and the Manhattan Projects....
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| x Chris McCann |
Chris McCann was the original drummer for the alternative rock band Gin Blossoms when the group was formed in 1987. He was replaced by Dan Henzerling the next year, before the release of the group's first album.
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| x Dan Henzerling |
Dan Henzerling briefly served as drummer for the Tempe, Arizona based alternative rock band Gin Blossoms. He joined the group in 1988 as a replacement for the band's first drummer, Chris McCann, but was in turn soon replaced by Phillip Rhodes. His...
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| x Phillip Rhodes |
Phillip Rhodes (born May 26, 1968) was a drummer for the alternative rock band Gin Blossoms during the late 1980s and the 1990s.
He was brought into the band well before the release of the group's first album in 1989, as a replacement for drummer...
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| x Jimmy Carl Black |
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Jimmy Carl Black (February 1, 1938 – November 1, 2008), born James Inkanish, Jr., was a drummer and vocalist for The Mothers of Invention.
Born in El Paso, Texas, he was of Cheyenne heritage. His trademark line was "Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy...
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| x Erik Sandin |
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Erik Sandin, often called Smelly, is the drummer of the popular California punk band, NOFX. He was a founding member of the band when they formed in Hollywood, California, in 1983, but moved to Santa Barbara two years later, leaving the band.
In...
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| x George Hurley |
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George Hurley (born September 4, 1958 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a drummer noted for his work with The Minutemen and fIREHOSE.
Even though he went to the same high school as D. Boon and Mike Watt he did not meet them until around 1978. That same...
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| x Clem Burke |
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Clem Burke (born Clement Bozewski, Bayonne, New Jersey, November 24, 1955) is an American musician who is the drummer for the band Blondie. Recruited by Chris Stein and Debbie Harry when they were first forming Blondie, Burke remained with the band...
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| x Anton Fier |
Anton Fier, aka "Andy Fisher" (born June 20, 1956), is an American drummer, composer and bandleader. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
Fier was an early member of The Lounge Lizards and The Feelies. He was in The Lodge (with John Greaves), worked with...
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| x Erik Kretz |
Erik Kretz was the drummer for a successful grunge band Stone Temple Pilots. During band mate Scott Weiland's drug addiction, he and two other members of STP Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo formed the band Talkshow. He is currently drummer for...
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| x Jesse Sandoval |
Jesse Sandoval is the former drummer of U.S. indie rock group The Shins. Sandoval initially formed Flake with singer-songwriter James Mercer, guitarist Neal Langford and bassist Marty Crandall in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1992. Sandoval and Mercer...
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| x Paul Bostaph |
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Paul Bostaph (born Paul Steven Bostaph March 4, 1964 in San Francisco, California) is a heavy metal drummer, who has played for the bands Forbidden (originally known as Forbidden Evil), Slayer, Testament, Exodus and Systematic. He is from Newark,...
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| x John McEntire |
John McEntire (born April 9, 1970 in Portland, Oregon) is an American recording engineer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known for being in Tortoise and The Sea and Cake, as well as being a highly in-demand producer and engineer....
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| x Adam Carson |
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Adam Carson is the drummer for the alternative rock band AFI. He is one of the two original members left in the lineup, the other being singer Davey Havok. Carson also filled in as drummer for the band Tiger Army. His drumming can be found on Tiger...
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| x Paul Simmons |
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Paul (Paulie) Simmons is an American drummer. Currently, he is the drummer for the Reverend Horton Heat and The Prog Rock Orchestra.
He is previously most well-known as the drummer for Th' Legendary Shack Shakers from 2003 to 2005. He was also the...
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| x Brooks Wackerman |
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Brooks Wackerman (born February 15, 1977) is the current drummer for the American punk band Bad Religion and the younger brother of Chad Wackerman, formerly a member of Frank Zappa's band. Chad played under the direction of his award-winning father...
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| x John Barbata |
John Barbata (born 1 April 1945, in Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.) is a noted drummer active especially in pop and pop/rock bands in the 1960s and 1970s, both as a band member and as a session drummer.
Already an established session drummer when he...
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| x Pete Sandoval |
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Pete Sandoval is a death metal drummer. Born in Santa Ana, El Salvador, he is known for his accomplishments in the world of extreme metal drumming. His first significant stint as a drummer was for the grindcore band Terrorizer, formed in mid-1980s,...
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| x Scott Phillips |
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Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips (born February 22, 1973, in Valdosta, Georgia) is the drummer for Alter Bridge, and is the current drummer for Creed, who has recently reformed and is in the process of hammering out details for a summer reunion tour and...
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| x Cliff Martinez |
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Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American film score composer and former drummer for Captain Beefheart, The Dickies, The Weirdos, Lydia Lunch and the Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984-1986).
Cliff Martinez was born in the Bronx, New York....
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| x Vinny Appice |
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Vincent "Vinny" Appice (born September 13, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is a rock drummer, best known for his work with the bands Dio and Black Sabbath. He is the younger brother, by nearly 13 years, of rock drummer Carmine Appice, who was in Vanilla...
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| x Ed Cassidy |
Ed "Cass" Cassidy (born Chicago, May 4, 1923) is a drummer who was one of the founders of the rock group Spirit in 1967.
His family moved to Bakersfield, California, in 1931, and he started as a professional musician in 1937. He was in the Navy...
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| x Ron Welty |
Ron Welty (born February 1, 1971, in Long Beach, California) was the drummer for the American punk rock band The Offspring from 1987 (though Dexter Holland said in an interview that it was 1986) through to 2003. He had replaced their original...
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| x Jerry Allison |
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Jerry Allison (born Jerry Ivan Allison, August 31, 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas) is an American musician, best known for being the drummer for The Crickets. He co-wrote the Crickets hit "Peggy Sue".
In their early days at the Lubbock Youth Center,...
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| x Jerry Nolan |
Jerry Nolan (May 7, 1946 – January 14, 1992) was an American punk rock drummer, best known for playing with The New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers.
A native of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Nolan joined The New York Dolls in the autumn of 1972 to...
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| x Tommy Benford |
Thomas "Tommy" Benford (April 19, 1905 – March 24, 1994) was an African American jazz drummer.
Tommy Benford was the younger brother of tuba player Bill Benford. He studied music at the Jenkins Orphanage located in South Carolina. He went on tour...
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| x Patrick Wilson |
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Patrick "Pat" George Wilson (born February 1, 1969 in Buffalo, New York) is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the alt-rock band Weezer. He joined the band in 1992. He, along with Rivers Cuomo, remain one of the two founding members...
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| x John Tempesta |
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John Tempesta (born September 26, 1964 in New York City) is a metal drummer who has worked several bands, namely Exodus, Testament, and White Zombie. He also played with former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie as a solo artist, and served as drum tech...
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| x Denny Carmassi |
Denny Carmassi is an American drummer. Carmassi was an original member of Montrose, along with Sammy Hagar, Ronnie Montrose, and Bill Church. He also played with Montrose while Bob James was the band's singer, with Sammy Hagar as a solo artist, and...
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| x Doug Clifford |
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Doug "Cosmo" Clifford (born April 24, 1945 in Palo Alto, California, U.S.) played drums in the American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival. After CCR broke up, Clifford and former CCR bassist Stu Cook (who was born a full day after Cosmo...
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| x Jim Hodder |
Jim Hodder (December 17, 1947–June 5, 1990) was an American drummer, best known as the original drummer for Steely Dan.
He was born in Boston in 1947. He joined Steely Dan in 1972, but left in 1974. While part of Steely Dan, he worked on the Can't...
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| x Kenny Aronoff |
Kenny Aronoff (born March 7, 1953) is an American drummer. A former member (briefly) of the hard rock band Cinderella, he has also played drums for several other musicians, including John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Elton John, John Fogerty, Lynyrd...
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| x Greg Errico |
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Greg Errico (born 1 September 1948, San Francisco, California) is an American musician/record producer, best known for being the drummer for the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band, Sly & the Family Stone. Errico was the original...
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