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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Terry John Bozzio |
| Also known as | Terry "Ted" Bozzio |
| Born | December 27, 1950 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Drummer |
| Instrument(s) | Drums, Vocals |
| Years active | 1972n – present |
| Associated acts | Frank Zappa, UK, Missing Persons, Jeff Beck, Korn, Fantômas |
| Website | www.terrybozzio.com |
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Biography
Bozzio was born in California to Italian American parents. An Italian American is an American of Italian descent and/or dual citizenship He attended Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, California, where he received a music scholarship in 1969. Sir Francis Drake High School is a Secondary school located in San Anselmo California. San Anselmo is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, in the western United States. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He made his name recording and touring with Frank Zappa (and appearing in the concert movie Baby Snakes), and then the band UK. Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21 1940 – December 4 1993 was an American Composer, Electric guitarist Record producer and Film director UK were a short-lived British Progressive rock supergroup active from 1977 through 1980 After his audition for Zappa, all the drummers behind him in the line left, and he was accepted. He was particularly famous 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. The Black Page is a piece by American composer Frank Zappa known for being extraordinarily difficult to play He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife Ev and son Raanen Bozzio.
Bozzio went on to form Missing Persons with his then-wife and lead vocalist Dale Bozzio, ex-Zappa guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, ex-Zappa bassist Patrick O'Hearn and keyboard player Chuck Wild. Missing Persons was an American band who played a blend of New Wave music and electronic Pop rock. Warren Bruce Cuccurullo (born December 8, 1956 in Brooklyn) is an American rock and pop Guitarist who has Patrick O'Hearn (b September 6, 1954) is a multi-instrumentalist musician composer and recording artist After disbanding Missing Persons in 1986 after releasing "Color In Your Life", 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 participated in the official "founding members" Missing Persons reunion in July 2001 and has recorded a Zappa-influenced, as-yet-unreleased album, Playing in Tongues, with Warren Cuccurullo.
In summer of 2005 Bozzio filled in for Dave Lombardo in Fantômas for their European tour. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dave Lombardo (born February 16 1965 in Havana, Cuba) is a heavy metal Drummer best known for his work with American Thrash metal Fantômas is an Avant-garde metal supergroup formed in 1998 in California, United States. Bozzio was inducted into Guitar Center's RockWalk in Hollywood on January 17, 2006 along with rock and roll icons Ronnie James Dio and Slash.
Bozzio has recently worked with the band Korn on their 8th studio album after the departure of their drummer David Silveria. Korn, occasionally typeset as KoЯn or KoRn, is an American Nu metal band from Bakersfield California, and is often credited with popularizing David Randall Silveria (born September 21, 1972 in San Leandro, California, United States) is a Drummer, mostly known 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. Nathan Jonas "Joey" Jordison (born April 26, 1975) is an American musician songwriter and Record producer.
Musical innovation
Like Hall of Fame drummer Gary Chester, Bozzio is noted for creating the melodic ostinato for the drum set. Gary Chester ( October 27, 1924 – August 17, 1987) (born Cesario Gurciullo in Saracusa Italy was one of the 20th century 's In Music, an Ostinato (derived from Italian: "stubborn" see also Oscillation) is a motif or phrase which is persistently 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. In tonal music, a pedal point (also pedal tone pedal note organ point or pedal is a Sustained tone typically in the bass, during which at least one He then applied this concept to the drum set.
Bozzio is also noted for creating orchestral compositions on the drum set by playing polyrhythms and metric modulations 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, and Mike Mangini. Marco Minnemann (born December 24, 1970) is a highly respected drummer composer and multi instrumentalist Thomas Lang (born August 5, 1967 in Vienna, Austria) is a professional Drummer, frequent drum clinician and a producer Mike Mangini (born April 18, 1963 in Newton Massachusetts, USA) is a celebrated Drummer who is best known for his work as a
Bozzio’s influence is becoming a more prominent force as modern day drummers are seeking to break the barriers of the traditional grooving drummer to the drummer that takes a more prominent role as the leader of a band, a position that in westernized music has been dominated by the guitar.
His drum clinics are legendary, often selling out the point of people being turned away. Often, this is because guitarists, bass players and other non-drummers attend these performances, something not common for drum clinics. It could be legitimately argued, that while most drummer use clinics as a side-project while their musical endeavors are on hold or on break, Bozzio's are full performances and can be considered a musical concert in and of themselves.
Terry Bozzio currently endorses Drum Workshop drums, Sabian cymbals and Vic Firth sticks, 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. White noise is a random signal (or process with a flat Power spectral density. 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, than the drummer himself. His kit has evolved from a fairly standard large drum set, akin to 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. Neil Peart (ˈpɪərt OC, (born Neil Ellwood Peart, September 12, 1952, Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian Musician
Selected discography
Solo
- Solo Drum Music I/II & III
- Drawing The Circle
- Chamber Works
- Solos & Duets (with Chad Wackerman)
- Nine Short Films (with Billy Sheehan)
- Chamber Works (2005, with Metropole Orchestra)
Frank Zappa
- Bongo Fury (October 1975), US #66
- Zoot Allures (October 1976), US #71
- Zappa in New York (March 1978), US #57
- Sleep Dirt (January 1979), US #175
- Sheik Yerbouti (March 1979), US #21
- Joe's Garage (September 1979), US #27
- Baby Snakes (March 1983)
- Thing-Fish (November 1984)
- FZ:OZ (August 2002)
Missing Persons
- Missing Persons (EP) (1980) #46 US
- Spring Session M (1982) #17 US
- Rhyme & Reason (1984) #43 US
- Color in Your Life (1986) #88 US
UK
- Danger Money 1979
- Night After Night 1979 - Live
Other
- David Torn, Mick Karn, Terry Bozzio
- Polytown
- Heavy Metal Be-Bop
- Black Light Syndrome (1997)
- Situation Dangerous (2000)
- Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop – 1989 #49 US
- Sex and Religion
- Two Sides Of If
- Zoom
- "Hide Your Face"
External links
- Terry Bozzio – Official site
- Terry Bozzio : Sabian Cymbals - Artist Set-up
- Drum Workshop site, artists section : Contains an illustration of Terry Bozzio and other drummers' drum kits
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