Drummer / vocalist / lyricist Jim Capaldi and guitarist Dave Mason had both been in the Hellions and Deep Feeling, while woodwinds player Chris Wood came out of Locomotive.

Drummer, songwriter and vocalist Keith Knudsen ( who previously drummed for Lee Michaels of " Do You Know What I Mean " fame ) was recruited promptly and left with the Doobies on a major tour within days of joining in September 1973.

Drummer Shannon Larkin has been a member of Godsmack since 2002, while lead vocalist Whitfield Crane took the then vacant vocalist spot for New York rock band Life of Agony whose former singer Keith Caputo had left the group in 1997.

Another example is the thrash metal band Metallica, in which James Hetfield ( Lead vocalist and Rhythm guitarist ) and Lars Ulrich ( Drummer ) share the spokesperson duties for being both founders and the only members that had never left the band.

Charged GBH are an English Street punk band, formed in 1978 by vocalist Colin Abrahall, guitarist Colin " Jock " Blyth, bassist Sean McCarthy and Drummer Andy " Wilf " Williams.

Drummer / percussionist Steve Arrington, along with vocalists Starleana Young, then Curt Jones and keyboardist Ray Turner came aboard in 1978, with Arrington ultimately becoming lead vocalist.

Drummer and lead vocalist / songwriter Aaron Katz and bassist John Leccese were added.

Drummer Butch Vig found himself confused over which direction to take the band's sound, before deciding to strip back to the basics of electric guitar, bass guitar and drums, using more first takes from vocalist and lyricist Shirley Manson's vocals, and reducing the synth components.

Past members have included bassist Kim Stone, 1990 – 2008, and Steve Bailey, sax players Brandon Fields, Dave Koz, Kenny G, Kirk Whalum and Nelson Rangell, pianists / keyboard players Dave Kochanski, David Benoit, Gregg Karukas, Tom McMorran and Mark Portmann, drummers Tony Morales, David Anderson, Omar Hakim, and Dave Hooper, and percussionists Scott Breadman, Ray Yslas and Steve Reid ( not to be confused with the legendary Jazz Drummer and Percussionist of the same name, Steve Reid ) to name a few.

Drummer Cooper, interviewed some years later, claimed " It was ( a ) mistake when we started taking over from Kimberley in the musical contribution side.

Drummer Ted Moll has a side project band called Bagheera.

Drummer Doug Scharin had started HiM as a side project, which sometimes also featured bassist Fred Erskine, and Scharin also later started the avant-garde band Out in Worship.

Drummer Jason Bittner recently stated about the band's new material, " The songs are a little more on the darker, angry side ... lots of heaviness, lots of crazy guitar, and LOTS of room for me to have some fun.

Drummer Mike Portnoy dismissed claims that Octavarium was an attempt to write a more commercial album, stating that the band simply " that side to.

Drummer Ken Schalk, bassist Mike MacIvor, and guitarist John Lamacchia have been involved in a free-jazz side project named Ghosts of the Canal, who have thus far released two full-length albums, Sessions from the Flats ( 1999 ) and Five Episodes from the Subconscious ( 2002 ), as well as two non-album tracks which appeared on the bonus disc of Candiria's The C. O. M. A.

Explaining the purpose of that project in a Modern Drummer news release Alexandrakis said, “ The four of us decided to create a scoring collective to pursue scoring projects in TV themes, film, and advertising …”

Drummer Hein Frode Hansen had recently quit his former band Phobia and started looking for a new musical project to play in.

Drummer Richard Hoak also provides vocals and drums for a project titled Total Fucking Destruction.

Drummer on the project is Nir Z. Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, and LeRoi Moore appear again, along with Steve Kimock ( guitars ), Mike Colley ( guitars ), David Cast ( saxophones ), John Zias ( guitars ), David Darling ( cello ), and others.

Drummer Timmy V is currently playing as a hired hand with Albuquerque, New Mexico all girl three-piece The Eyeliners, and plays drums in his own project Stabbed in Back, a solo hardcore / punk project entitled A Portrait of Noise.

Drummer Scott Columbus left the band after this album as well, but rejoined for 1996's Louder Than Hell and remained with the band until 2008.

Drummer Randy DeLay later performed with the Tony Sarno Band and the Hell Hounds around the Atlanta music circuit.

Drummer Kevin Wilkinson ( no relation to bassist Keith ), formerly of The Waterboys and China Crisis, was also added around this time, replacing Newmark.

Drummer Bruce Spencer, formerly of Vector, was brought on board to fill Smith's vacancy.

Drummer Kenney Jones formed the rock group The Jones Gang, together with singer Robert Hart ( formerly of Bad Company ), Patrick Walford and guitarist Rick Wills ( formerly of Foreigner ); in 2005 their first single " Angel " reached number 1 on the US Billboard " hot singles sales " list.

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Drummer Adam West, formerly of Tangier, played for Britny Fox briefly between the time of Tony Destra and Johnny Dee.

Drummer Paul Hooper, left the band in early 2010, replaced by Glen Taylor, formerly of Marmalade.

Drummer Kottak left the band in March 1996 and was replaced by Bobby Borg, formerly of Beggars & Thieves, Left For Dead, and Opinion.

" Drummer Brian Dixon will continue to perform with The Crunched, a power trio which he formed in 2010 with Alan Kulke ( ex-Caprice ) and Roy ' Yozzer ' Hughes ( formerly of Engine ).

Drummer Dave Ketchum left prior to this release, to be replaced by Barry Connors, formerly of Toronto.

Drummer Ian Stoddart ( one time member of Win ) departed in late 2005, and was replaced by Murray Briggs, formerly of the Anarcho / street punk band Oi Polloi.

Drummer Danny Benair played with several other Los Angeles bands, including Flyboys, Choir Invisible, The Falcons, The Weirdos, and The Three O ' Clock ( formerly Salvation Army ) before switching to the behind-the-scenes licensing business and founding a film soundtrack song placement agency, Natural Energy Lab.

Drummer Nigel Powell formed a new band, The Sad Song Co., and has been playing with another Oxford band Dive Dive ( formerly Dustball ).

Drummer Justin Barnes ( formerly of Simplistic ) officially joined the band in August 2006, two days before the band left for tour with Houston Calls and Quietdrive, while Hunter MacDonald ( whom the band met while on tour with JamisonParker temporarily filled in on bass.

Drummer Ted VanTilburg formerly of Morgue played North drums from 1988 to 1993.

Drummer Josh Freese was replaced with Bryan Mantia ( formerly of Primus ).

magazines named Zakir Hussain Best World Music and Best World Beat Drummer respectively.

Joe's Garage was named one of the top-25 drumming performances of all time in a 1993 Modern Drummer article.

Haake was named number one in the " Metal " category in Modern Drummer magazine's 2008 Readers ' Poll.

In March 2012 Modern Drummer named Smith # 2 on its list of best living drummers.

At the age of 15 Morello met the violinist Jascha Heifetz and decided that he would never be able to equal Heifetz's " sound ", so switched to drumming, first studying with a show drummer named Joe Sefcik and then George Lawrence Stone, author of the noted drum textbook Stick Control for the Snare Drummer.

In 2001, Modern Drummer named Steve as one of the Top 25 Drummers of All Time, and in 2002 he was voted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame.

2001 was the year Modern Drummer magazine named Smith as one of the Top 25 Drummers of All Time.

He was named " Best Drummer of 1990 " by Rolling Stone Magazine's critics poll.

Early into the 1998 season, however, the Late-May 1998 Tornado Outbreak and Derecho damaged the Mutley's Putt Putts ride as well as a small children's ride named Drummer Boy, uprooting a lot of the trees in the park.