Chad Wackerman

Chad Wackerman ( born March 25, 1960 in Long Beach, California) is an American drummer. He became known in the 1980s for his work with Frank Zappa. Today he works as a studio and touring musician.

Career

Wackerman comes from a musical family. The family - the father a music teacher and a drummer, the drummer mother, two brothers, drummer, bassist, another brother - seemed to have a great impact on Chad Wacker Mans musical way to exercise. In 1978, the jazz trombonist Bill Watrous became aware of him, with whom he had his first gigs.

A fellow bassist made ​​Wackerman in 1981 points out that Frank Zappa alongside a bassist also was looking for a new drummer. Wackerman Zappa phoned and asked to be allowed to audition for him. After a three-day test, which took him through various styles of popular music, he got the job. The decisive factor is likely to pass on its grade strength have been, should it be in the recordings for the two albums musically very demanding Zappa orchestral pieces with the London Symphony Orchestra useful later.

Over the next eight years, close collaboration in the recording studio and on worldwide tours with Zappa Chad Wackerman was still time to tackle other projects. For example, with the British guitarist Allan Holdsworth, for whom he played until 1998 in the studio and " on the road" drums ( it created six albums, including Road Games and Metal Fatigue ). With the successful Down Under Men At Work Popensemble he was in the years 1985 and 1986 on tour. At this time he pulled himself to Australia, where he lived for ten years from now.

Chad Wacker Mans credits as a studio musician have as Steve Vai name, Andy Summers (formerly The Police ), Albert Lee, Colin Hay or Barbra Streisand. As a live drummer, he was booked for tours of James Taylor, John Patitucci, Joe Sample Crusaders - founder, ex- Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio and Steven Wilson.

Style

Chad Wackerman has an extremely varied range of playing ability: He is also in hard hitting rock grooves at home in light and floating jazz Feelings and dominates also in between. He felt in the Zappa typical broken rhythms and probably also had an intuitive sense of what turn Zappa's solos would take next. To this end, Zappa 's biographer Barry Miles, "At each clock a perfect accompaniment. "

Discography (selection)

  • Forty Reasons - 1991
  • The View - 1993
  • Scream - 2000
  • Legs Eleven - 2004
  • Dreams Nightmares and Improvisations - 2012
  • Frank Zappa: Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch - 1982
  • Frank Zappa: London Symphony Orchestra, Vol 1-1983
  • Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong In Music? - 1986
  • Frank Zappa: The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life - 1991
  • Frank Zappa: Make A Jazz Noise Here - 1991
  • Allan Holdsworth: Road Games - 1981
  • Allan Holdsworth: Sand - 1987
  • Barbra Streisand: One Voice - 1987
  • Andy Summers: Charming Snakes - 1990
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