Brad Wilk

Brad Wilk (born September 5, 1968, Portland, Oregon, United States) is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the American rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.He is ranked 150th greatest drummers of all time by digitaldreamdoor.com Wilk was born on September 5, 1968, in Portland, Oregon to a family of German and Russian Jewish descent. Wilk, (pronounced: Villk), is a Polish surname, meaning "Wolf", although his last nam... more

Brad Wilk (born September 5, 1968, Portland, Oregon, United States) is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the American rock bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.He is ranked 150th greatest drummers of all time by digitaldreamdoor.com Wilk was born on September 5, 1968, in Portland, Oregon to a family of German and Russian Jewish descent. Wilk, (pronounced: Villk), is a Polish surname, meaning "Wolf", although his last name was changed when his father's family escaped Germany during the holocaust and migrated to America through Poland. He lived in Chicago in his childhood, and then later settled in Southern California. Wilk started to play the drums when he was 13 years old and got his first drum kit a year later, when he was 14. Wilk's success as the drummer of Rage Against the Machine came from the failure of a different band; he once auditioned for a band called Lock Up, who released one album (titled Something Bitchin' This Way Comes) through Geffen records... less