Gregg Bissonette’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American drummer
Is Musician 
Drummer 
Jazz musician 
From United States of America 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 9 June 1959, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, U.S.A.
Age: 61 years

Gregg Bissonette (born June 9, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American drummer. He has been a touring, session recording, and full-time drummer in many jazz and rock bands. He is also known for his instructional videos, drum clinics, and for having been a member of the David Lee Roth band.

Career

One of Bissonette’s first recordings is Brandon Field’s The Other Side of the Story in 1985. It featured David Garfield on keyboards. A few years later Bissonette would start playing shows with Field, Garfield and Steve Lukather on guitar and with John Peña on bass as Los Lobotomys. These shows took place at the Baked Potato, a jazz club and restaurant in Los Angeles, California, playing rock, Latin, jazz and more.

In 1990 and 1993, Bissonette released drum videos Private Lesson and Playing, Reading & Soloing with a Band, respectively. Private Lesson covers a variety of topics including double bass drumming, rudiments (featuring a backsticking technique from the snare drum solo Tornado by Mitch Markovich), playing with a metronome, brushes, and more.

Bissonette played drums on Santana’s multi-platinum album Supernatural.

In 2007, Bissonette recorded on the album La La Land by Daniel Glen Timms.

Bissonette can be heard on a number of rock instrumental and progressive rock albums, including the following: Temporal by Shadrane, Deep Forest by Deep Forest, Bass Invader by Martin Motnik, Inner Galactic Fusion Experience by Richie Kotzen, Shadow King by Steve Fister, Revolution Road by Rocket Scientists, In The Eye Of Time by Vox Tempus, Bug Alley and the soundtrack to the movie The Endless Summer II by Gary Hoey, Instrumentality by Marco Cardona, and a number of albums by Steve Vai.

Equipment

Gregg Bissonette’s corporate endorsements include the following:

  • Dixon Drums
  • Remo Drum Heads
  • Vic Firth Drum Sticks—Gregg Bissonette signature model
  • Drum Workshop Drum Pedals
  • Direct Sound Extreme Isolation Headphones
  • Sabian cymbals

    Discography

    TV soundtracks

    • Mad About You
    • King of the Hill
    • Just Shoot Me!
    • Friends
    • Jeopardy!
    • Wheel of Fortune

    Movie soundtracks

    Gregg Bissonette’s movie soundtrack credits include the following:

    • The Devil Wears Prada
    • Bourne Supremacy
    • Sex and the City
    • Superbad
    • Encino Man
    • Payback (1999)
    • The Endless Summer II
    • Waiting for Guffman
    • For Your Consideration
    • Best in Show
    • Hope Floats
    • The Craft
    • A Mighty Wind
    • 2 Days in the Valley
    • The Bucket List
    • Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    • Finding Nemo
    • American Pie
    • American Pie 2
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