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Terry John Bozzio (December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and the late Frank Zappa.[1]
[edit] BiographyTerry Bozzio was born December 27, 1950 in San Francisco, California. He started at age 6 playing makeshift drum sets of various materials such as coffee cans, broken arrow sticks, and crumpled high voltage signs playing to the records of Tito Puente and the "Surf Drum" music of Sandy Nelson and The Ventures. At the age of 13 he witnessed The Beatles premier performance on The Ed Sullivan Show,[2] and begged his father for drum lessons. During this time he played in the garage bands Blue Grass Radio, The Yarde, and Tamalpaias Jungle Mountain Boys. In 1968 Bozzio attended Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California 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 percussion and timpani scholarship. He also played Bartok-Dahl-Cowell & Baroque chamber ensembles with the Marin and Napa County Symphonies. In 1972 Terry 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, Woodie 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. 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, Terry was dismissed from 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, wherein Bozzio declined membership in the group and then auditioned unsuccessfully for Thin Lizzy. In 1979 he joined the band UK with Eddie Jobson and John Wetton, replacing Bill Bruford & Alan Holdsworth. They record Danger Money and Night After Night and tour the US twice (supporting Jethro Tull), as well as Europe and Japan. Bozzio then quits UK to form the band Missing Persons with ex-Zappa guitarist Warren Cuccurullo and then-wife and vocalist Dale Bozzio. Missing Persons released the albums Spring Session M (in which they received a Gold Record), Rhyme & Reason, and Color in Your Life. They also toured US & Europe and appeared in numerous TV and Radio shows. After disbanding Missing Persons in 1986, Terry joined up with ex-Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor for his solo band. He can be seen in a couple videos from that period. 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 later teamed up with Beck & keyboardist Tony Hymas to co-write/produce and perform on the Grammy Award winning album Guitar Shop. In 1988 Bozzio married Ev Kvamme and in 1990 was the birth of his firstborn son Raanen Bozzio. 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 off and on in Paris, France. He also formed the band Polytown with David Torn and Mick Karn. From 1995-2002 Bozzio did numerous 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, her received Schlagwerkrant Magazine's (Germany) and Player Magazine's (Japan) Best Drummer Award. In summer of 2005 Bozzio filled in for Dave Lombardo in Fantômas for their European tour.[citation needed] Bozzio was inducted into Guitar Center's RockWalk in Hollywood on January 17, 2007[3] 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 also play on the road with the band during the Family Values Tour, but he left the group and was replaced by Joey Jordison of Slipknot and later Ray Luzier. Terry Bozzio is currently the Artist in Residence for the online drumming community website, http://www.drumchannel.com [edit] Musical innovation Like Hall of Fame drummer Gary Chester, Bozzio is noted for creating the melodic ostinato for the drum set.[citation needed] 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. Like Chester, Bozzio developed the application for the melodic ostinato for drum set when he noticed how a pianist would solo or play counter rhythms against the ostinato or pedal point. He then applied this concept to the drum set.[citation needed] Bozzio is also noted for creating orchestral compositions on the drum set by playing polyrhythms and metric modulations[citation needed] while utilizing his large custom kit (sometimes nicknamed "SS Bozzio"), in which the tom toms are tuned to specific notes to create the atmosphere that is Bozzio’s signature sound. Terry Bozzio’s influence has been seen in some of the most prominent drummers of today including Marco Minnemann, Thomas Lang, Mike Mangini and Chris Utter. Terry Bozzio currently endorses Drum Workshop drums, Sabian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and Attack drum heads, all of which have special custom lines designed for him. In fact, his cymbals were designed from the ground up by Bozzio himself, including a completely different kind of lathing method. Terry is known to use various white noise cymbal pairings, where he stacks multiple crashes and/or china cymbals to create atypical sounds. This idea may have arisen from Zappa's abhorrence of loud cymbals, so to satisfy his boss, he cut large chunks out of his cymbals, which created a "swooshy", and more trashy sound. This is seen in the Baby Snakes movie in prominence. The "SS Bozzio" is often just as amazing, to onlookers of his performances, as the drummer himself. His kit has evolved from a fairly standard large drum set, akin to that of Neil Peart, including various sound effects and the standard drum arrangements, to his current setup which includes more than 10 pedals to operate various percussion devices and dozens of drums to achieve his melodic drum parts. [edit] Current drum kit setup[edit] DrumsVertical 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
[edit] CymbalsAll cymbals are Sabian Radia Terry Bozzio signatures.
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[edit] Selected discography[edit] Solo
[edit] Frank Zappa
[edit] Missing Persons
[edit] UK
[edit] Dweezil Zappa
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