Billy Mundi (born Antonio Salas, September 25, 1942 in San Francisco) is an American drummer, who has played a multitude of sessions and been a member of countless bands, most notably The Mothers of Invention and Rhinoceros. The Mothers of Invention was an American Rock and roll band active from 1964 to 1975 Rhinoceros were a short-lived rock band in late 1960s Paul A Rothchild, then Elektra Records ' talent scout and house producer conceived the idea to individually He also used the name Tony Schnasse.
A former Hell's Angel, his career dates back to the late 1950s, when he majored in music at UCLA. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United After graduation, Mundi worked for three months as a tympanist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic before moving into studio work and a succession of local bands. The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LA Phil LAP or LAPO is an American Orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States [1] In the early 1960s he played in Skip Battin's group, Skip and The Flips, and worked as a session musician on Tim Buckley's debut album among others. Clyde "Skip" Battin (born February 18, 1934 in Gallipolis, Ohio, died Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14 1947 – June 29 1975 was an experimental Vocalist and Musician who incorporated Jazz, Psychedelia
In 1966, he joined The Mothers of Invention during the recording of the album Freak Out!, and later provided drums for several subsequent Mothers albums. He also featured in the movie Uncle Meat. He was enticed away from the Mothers by Jac Holzman at Elektra Records to form a supergroup, Rhinoceros. Jac Holzman (born 1931 founded Elektra Records in his St John's College dorm room in 1950 and Nonesuch Records in 1964 Elektra Records is a now-dormant American Record label owned by Warner Music Group (WMG and from 2004 on operating under WMG's Atlantic Records SuperGroup is a Reality show on the channel VH1. The show puts together five Heavy metal musicians packed into a large mansion that must play a show after According to Frank Zappa, Holzman "offered Billy Mundi a huge amount of money, a place to live, the whole package — we'll make you a star, you'll work with these top-grade musicians instead of those comedy guys. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director . . But I don't blame Billy for taking the job, because at that time we were so poor he was living in the Albert Hotel and he couldn't get enough to eat — he used to come in and tell us how he'd quell his appetite by drinking the hot water in the shower. . . ". [2]
Around 1970, Mundi moved to Woodstock, New York, where he worked with Geoff and Maria Muldaur and as a session musician. Woodstock is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. Maria Muldaur (born Maria Grazia Rosa Domenica D'Amato, 12 September 1943, in Greenwich Village, New York) is a roots- folk He currently resides in California with his wife of 31 years, Patty.
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