Terry Bozzio

Terry John Bozzio! One unique drummer, percusionist. With todays top quality drum kit and equipment. It’s huge, and I say realy huge kit, not an ordinary one, not any one could play on it. Terry started playing drums at the age of 11, before that he played on plastics, bottles and other objects just for fun. Then he started first of all learning all the things about drumming, rythm, and drum notes. One the Terry was taken to a Beatles concert where he was astonished by the band, and by the drummer, and after that Terry decided to take drumming seriosly. He then begd to his father to buy him a drum set, and finally he got one. Through the mid 60's he played in varios local garage band for incresing his skills, by the time he was 18 years old he played in many band and many fill of the music. In 68 he attemted Sir Francis Drake High School and College of Marin music school where he studied timpani and various forms of percussion to get a higher level a drumming. The big hit came when he had the apportunity to meet up with the famous rock singer Frank Zappa who was in the search of a drummer. Terry went on a audition and performed his best, the hole crew was stuned with his amazing skill and varios groves. After the audition, Terry was officially the drummer of the Frank Zappa band. With Frank Zappa he made his name in the media and he was know as the great drummer of the Frank Zappa team. Through the year with Frank Zappa he recoded more then 10 albumes and toured 3 world tours, and there was the famous concert video Baby Snakes. Untill the 90's he play in many know band, and performed in either rok and jazz/fusion fields. He wrote and recoded many of his own albums. He is know for his drum playin, because he plays on a huge drum kit, and his drum kit is set up in a tricky way.

Some links:
Terry Bozzio Official Website
Terry Bozzio at Drummerworld