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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 of its own.
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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 an American 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...
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| x Ed McTaggart |
Ed McTaggart (born July 10, 1951) is an American drummer and artist. He is best known as the drummer of 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 July 27, 1973), is an American musician, he is the drummer of the alternative metal band Deftones. He is known for his use of ghost notes and other technical drumming techniques.
Abe Cunningham was born in Long Beach,...
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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 former drummer for the rock band Primus. Tim played on the Primus recordings Suck on This to Tales from the Punchbowl, before...
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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 |
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Joe Daniels (August 4, 1970) is an American rock drummer best known as the ex-drummer for Local H.
In 1987, while attending high school in Zion, IL Daniels and Scott Lucas, eventually formed Local H in 1990. Local H was originally a three-piece band...
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| x Bud Gaugh |
Floyd "Bud" I. Gaugh IV (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) and Sublime with Rome (2009–2011)...
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| x Chuck Biscuits |
Chuck Biscuits (born Charles Montgomery on April 17, 1965) is a Canadian-born drummer, now a U.S. citizen, who is best known as an original member of the heavy metal/hard rock band Danzig. Most recently, he was a member of the punk rock band Social...
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| x Bun E. Carlos |
Brad M. Carlson (born June 12, 1951), better known by the stage name Bun E. Carlos, is the primary 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...
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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 on July 18, 1978) is the drummer for rock band Eve 6. While attending the University of Southern California, he auditioned for Eve 6 to replace their drummer. Fagenson was inspired to name the band Eve 6...
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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. He has also played for Talk Show and Spiralarms. Eric, who was born in San Jose, California, attended and graduated from...
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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.
Born in Los Angeles, Densmore attended Santa Monica City College and Cal. State-Northridge; at the latter...
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| x Ed Blackwell |
Ed Blackwell (October 10, 1929 – October 7, 1992) was an American jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for his extensive, influential work with Ornette Coleman.
Blackwell's early career began in New Orleans in the 1950s. He played in a...
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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 drummer, composer, session musician, and singer-songwriter.
As a young boy, Blade grew up in a home in Shreveport, Louisiana in which he frequently heard Gospel music and...
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| x Milford Graves |
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Milford Graves (b. Queens, New York August 20, 1941) is an American 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 to be a free...
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| x Roy Haynes |
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Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925 in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 60 years has played in a wide...
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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 (February 18, 1958 in Dunkirk, New York – July 22, 1999 in Orange City, Florida) was a drummer best remembered for his work with the heavy metal band Megadeth from 1984–1987, contributing to their first 2 albums.
Little is...
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| x Frankie Banali |
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Frankie Banali (born November 14, 1951) is an American rock drummer, best known for his work with multi-platinum heavy metal band Quiet Riot. He has been the band's manager since 1994. He played drums in the heavy metal band W.A.S.P., as well as...
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| x Jeremiah Green |
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Jeremiah Martin Green (born March 4, 1977) is a founding member and drummer of the indie rock band Modest Mouse from 1993 to March 2003, and again from July 2004 to present.
He was born in Oahu, Hawaii while his father was in the Army. He grew up in...
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| x Pete Sims |
Pete La Roca (born Peter Sims, April 7, 1938, New York City) is an American jazz drummer. He adopted the name La Roca early in his musical career when he was a timbales player in Latin bands.
Between 1957 and 1968 he played with Sonny Rollins,...
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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, Black 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 (born July 29, 1966), is an American musician and 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,...
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| x George Hurley |
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 Anthony Bozewski; November 24, 1954) 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 through its...
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| x Paul Bostaph |
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Paul Bostaph (born Paul Steven Bostaph on March 6, 1963 in San Francisco, California) is a heavy metal drummer. His drumming career began in 1984, when he was 20 years old, and he had since worked with bands like Slayer, Forbidden, Exodus,...
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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 Alexander Carson (born February 5, 1975) is the drummer of the rock band AFI. He and Davey Havok are the two original members left in the lineup. Carson also filled in as drummer for the band Tiger Army. His drumming can be found on Tiger Army...
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| x Paul Simmons |
Paul (Paulie) Simmons is an American drummer. Currently, he is the drummer for the Reverend Horton Heat. He is previously most well known as the drummer for Th' Legendary Shack Shakers from 2003 to 2005. He was also the drummer in Christian rock...
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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 John Wackerman and Chad Wackerman (formerly a member of Frank Zappa's band). He is the son of Chuck Wackerman, an...
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| x John Barbata |
John Barbata (b. April 1, 1945) is an American drummer, born in Passaic, New Jersey, 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 (born May 21, 1963) is an American death metal drummer born in Santa Ana, El Salvador. His first significant stint as a drummer was for the grindcore band Terrorizer, formed in 1986, where he began to demonstrate some of his talent....
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Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips (born February 22, 1973, Valdosta, Georgia) is the drummer and co-founder of the bands Alter Bridge and Creed. Phillips grew up in Madison, Florida. He started out playing in a band called Crosscut at 18. In 2004, he...
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| x Cliff Martinez |
Cliff Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American film score composer and former drummer known for his work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart. Martinez's film scores include, Drive, Contagion and Traffic.
On April 14, 2012,...
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| x Vinny Appice |
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Vincent Samson "Vinny" Appice (born September 13, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York), is an Italian-American rock drummer and the younger brother of drummer Carmine Appice. He is best known for his work with the bands Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell....
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| x Ed Cassidy |
Ed "Cass" Cassidy (born May 4, 1923, Chicago) is an American 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...
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| x Ron Welty |
Ronald "Ron" Welty (born February 1, 1971, Long Beach, California) is the former drummer for the American punk rock band The Offspring. Of all the band's drummers, Welty's tenure was the longest, as he was in the band from July 1987 to March 2003....
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| x Jerry Allison |
J.I. Allison (born Jerry Ivan Allison, August 31, 1939, in Hillsboro, Texas) is an American musician, best known for being the drummer for The Crickets and co-writer of their Buddy Holly hit "Peggy Sue".
Allison's first professional recording can be...
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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 in Charleston, South Carolina. He went on...
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| x John Tempesta |
John Tempesta (born September 26, 1964 in New York City) is a heavy metal drummer who has worked several bands including: Exodus, Testament and White Zombie. He also played with former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie as a solo artist and served as...
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| x Doug Clifford |
Doug "Cosmo" Clifford (born Douglas Clifford, April 24, 1945, Palo Alto, California, United States) played drums in the American rock band, Creedence Clearwater Revival. After CCR broke up, Clifford and former CCR bassist Stu Cook joined Don...
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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. As drummer/vocalist, he was a member of the band Bead Game, which released one album titled ...
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| x Greg Errico |
Greg Errico (born 1 September 1948, San Francisco, California is an Italian American musician and record producer, best known for being the drummer for the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band, Sly and the Family Stone. Errico was the...
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| x Andy Newmark |
Andrew "Andy" Newmark (born July 14, 1950) is an American musician. Andy's mother was Bermudian and Andy is also a citizen of Bermuda. Andy played in 2 Bermuda groups The Savages (as a fill in for Howie Rego) and as the drummer for the BERMUDA JAM -...
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| x Ivan de Prume |
Ivan de Prume is a heavy metal drummer whose music became famous in the groove metal band White Zombie.
Born in Brooklyn, New York City, de Prume comes from a rich history of artists. Ivan's sister, Cathryn is a successful actress and they have...
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| x Jason Bittner |
Jason Bittner (born January 11, 1970 in Niskayuna, New York) is the drummer for the American metal band Shadows Fall. He has won numerous awards including Modern Drummer Reader's poll for #1 Up and Coming Drummer of 2004, and in 2005, #1 Best...
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| x Bob Bryar |
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Bob Bryar, born Robert Nathaniel Corey Bryar, was the drummer of my Chemical Romance. He was the replacement of Matt Pelissier. In 2010 he quit the band for unknown reasons.
Bob Bryar was born December 31, 1979, in Chicago, Illinois, making him the...
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| x Cyrus Bolooki |
Cyrus Bolooki (Born on February 27 1980) is currently the drummer of the popular pop-punk band group New Found Glory.
Preceded by the departure of Joe Moreno from New Found Glory in 1997, Cyrus is still considered "the New Guy" by his band mates....
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| x D. J. Fontana |
Dominic Joseph Fontana (born March 15, 1931, in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American musician best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley for 14 years. He played on over 460 RCA cuts with Elvis.
Nicknamed "D. J.", he was employed by the Louisiana...
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| x Hunt Sales |
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Hunt Sales (born March 2, 1954) is an American rock and roll drummer who has played with Todd Rundgren, his brother Tony Sales, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine.
Hunt Sales is the son of 1950s/60s television comedian Soupy Sales. He has two daughters; Cali...
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| x Taz Bentley |
Patrick Bentley, better known as Taz or The Taz, is an American rock and roll drummer.
Taz is currently a member of the Burden Brothers.
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| x Greg Elmore |
Greg Elmore (born September 4, 1946, in the Coronado Naval Air Station, California) is an American drummer, formerly with The Brogues and the San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Greg Elmore also played regularly with Terry and the...
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| x Rob Gardner |
Rob Gardner is an American musician best known as the drummer for the original lineups of L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses while he was briefly the drummer for Hollywood Rose.
L.A. Guns were first formed in 1983 by guitarist Tracii Guns. The first lineup...
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| x Derek Grant |
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Derek Grant is the drummer for punk band Alkaline Trio, where he replaced Mike Felumlee. He was previously a member of The Suicide Machines, Telegraph, Gyga, Thoughts of Ionesco, Remainder, Walls of Jericho, The Exceptions and Broken Spoke, a side...
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| x Tris Imboden |
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Tris Imboden (born Gregory Tristan Imboden on July 27, 1951) is the current drummer with Chicago. He replaced their original drummer Danny Seraphine following his dismissal in 1990. Prior to joining Chicago, as well as during his tenure with the...
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