Bruce Gary
Bruce Gary was born in Burbank, California, United States on April 7th, 1951 and is the Drummer. At the age of 55, Bruce Gary biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bruce Gary (April 7, 1951 – August 22, 2006) was an American musician best known as the drummer for the Knack band.
He was nominated for two Grammy Awards as a stage performer, producer, and recording artist. The young Gary, who was born in Burbank, California, was full of energy, and his parents permitted him to build up the drum kit that his cousin gave him after being bored with it.
Gary left home at 15 years old and was attracted to Topanga Canyon, California,'s musical scene.
Randy California, a guitarist, made friends.
He appeared with bluesman Albert Collins in the 1960s and early 1970s.
By the time he was twenty-four, he was touring and recording with former Cream bassist Jack Bruce and guitarist Mick Taylor, who had just left the Rolling Stones.
Carla Bley, a jazz pianist, appeared on this dazzling lineup.
Gary also worked with Dr. Gary.
In the 1970s, John appeared in the newspaper. Doug Fieger, a guitarist from 1978, asked him to join a band with guitarist Berton Averre.
Prescott Niles, a bassist, followed the three children shortly.
Fieger and Averre performed a tune about Sharona Alperin, a teenage girl Fieger was obsessed with, which was a hit on Fieger and Averre.
Despite his early reservations about the song, Gary came up with a beat to match "My Sharona"'s stuttering style.
He later described the performance as a surf stomp.
As he explained, drummers in surf bands often play songs that use no cymbals, but kick drum, snare drum, and toms.
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles also borrowed from the drum part of "Going to a Go Go."
He said the last ingredient was the drum rudiment, in which one drumstick strikes the drum just before the other does; the fire registers as a single beat but with a full sound.
Gary's quickly recognisable kick-and-snare drum intro helped propel the power-pop anthem to the top of the US charts. Get the Knack, the Knack's debut album, has sold 6 million copies. Gary became an in-demand drummer for studio work and live performances with some of the era's greatest performers, including Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Stephen Stills, Rod Stewart, Bette Midler, Harry Nilsson, and Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, following the breakup of the Knack in the early 1980s.
Albert King and John Lee Hooker were both apprentices with the blues masters. In addition to his work as a drummer, he gained acclaim for his contributions as a producer, recording new albums with the Ventures and co-producing (with Alan Douglas) a series of seminal archival recordings of Jimi Hendrix, including the Blues collection. He died at the age of 55 at the Tarzana Regional Medical Center in Tarzana, California, of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.