Anton Fig

Anton Fig ( born August 8, 1952 in Cape Town ) is an American rock and jazz drummer.

Life

Fig began at the age of four years playing drums and performed in South African rock bands before he went to Boston, where he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music until 1975. In 1976 he went to New York, where he among other things, with Ace Frehley, Kiss, Bob Dylan, BB King, Peter Frampton, Joan Armatrading and Cyndi Lauper worked.

Since 1986 he is a member of the CBS Orchestra, which acts as a band of the Late Show with David Letterman, and as the house band of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He entered this function, with musicians such as Miles Davis, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Winwood, Bonnie Raitt and Tony Bennett. In 1987 he was involved in the comeback of Ace Frehley as a member of his band Frehley 's Comet. He played on the same album, but left the group after the end of the subsequent tour, in order to devote his obligations at CBS can. At the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 accompanied the Orchestra Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill, Little Richard and BB King, at the Concert for New York City in 2001, David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy, Macy Gray and James Taylor.

Published in 1996, Fig an instructional video for drummers under the title In the Groove, in book form under the title Late Night drumming. In 2002 he released his album Figments to be, among other things, Richie Havens, Brian Wilson, Ivan Neville, Sebastian Bach, Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, Chris Spedding, Donald Dunn, Blondie Chaplin, Paul Shaffer, Chris Botti, Randy Brecker and Richard Bona participated.