"Jeff Rich Jeff Rich (born 8 June 1953, Hackney, London) is an English rock drummer, best known as a former drummer for the English rock band Status Quo. He attended school in Hackney at Upton House Comprehensive, and whilst there he appeared in the opera ""Tosca"" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He helped out Def Leppard in August 1986 and played alongside Rick Allen who had lost his left arm in a car accident in December 1984. However, during Def Leppard's warm-up mini tour of Ireland, Rich missed a gig, and the rest of the band realised Allen"
"band's interest in creating a bigger, more pristine pop production. Joe Elliott later stated in an interview: ""Todd Rundgren produced (Meat Loaf's) ""Bat Out of Hell"". Jim Steinman wrote it"". After parting ways with Steinman following an unsatisfactory recording of ""Don't Shoot Shotgun"", the band tried to produce the album themselves with Lange's engineer Nigel Green with no success, and initial recording sessions were entirely scrapped. On 31 December 1984, Rick Allen lost his left arm when his Corvette flipped off a country road. Following the accident, the band stood by Allen's decision to return to the drum kit despite"
"over peers such as The Rolling Stones, AC/DC, and Journey. Following their breakthrough, the band moved to Dublin in February 1984 for tax purposes to begin writing the follow-up to ""Pyromania"". Mutt Lange initially joined in on the songwriting sessions but then suddenly declined to return as producer due to exhaustion. Instead, Jim Steinman (of Meat Loaf's ""Bat Out of Hell"" fame) was brought in. On 31 December 1984, drummer Rick Allen lost his left arm in a car crash on the A57 in the hills outside the band's home city of Sheffield. Allen was driving with his Dutch girlfriend,"
"reunited once again and released 2 new songs. During and since Thunderbirds Are Now!, Ryan Allen has been involved in numerous projects, including Friendly Foes (2008-2010), Ryan Allen & His Extra Arms (2011–Present), and Destroy This Place (2013–Present). Before Thunderbirds Are Now!, he was a drummer in Red Shirt Brigade. Scott Allen plays in Livonia-based band Big Mess (2011–Present), while Matt Rickle and Julian Wettlin continue to be active in Detroit-based Javelins (2004–Present) Thunderbirds Are Now! Thunderbirds are Now! were a Livonia, Michigan-based post-punk revival band whose sound used a mix of traditional post-punk, new wave and noise rock. The"
"group during the mid-1960s. Critic Scott Yanow has described Allen's playing as ""Johnny Hodges from another dimension"". Since Sun Ra and John Gilmore died, Allen has led the Arkestra, and has recorded two albums as their bandleader. In May 2004, Allen celebrated his 80th birthday on stage with the Arkestra, as part of their performance at the Ninth Vision Festival in New York City. Allen gave other performances on his birthday in 2008 at Sullivan Hall and at Iridium Jazz Club in 2018, both in New York City. Allen often appears in NYC-area collaborations with bassist Henry Grimes and has"
"car accident, breaking his neck and back in six places, which put him in traction for months. While he was in traction, Danko's girlfriend, Grace Seldner, informed him that she was pregnant, and he proposed from his hospital bed. When they married, Danko was still in a neck brace. Rick and Grace divorced in October 1980. The Band finally made their concert debut at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco in April 1969. By this time, they were already hard at work on their eponymous second album. On that record, sometimes known as the Brown Album, Danko sang what"
"on ""Cocktails & Dreams"". The Lawrence Arms The Lawrence Arms are an American punk rock band from Chicago, formed in 1999. They have released six full-length albums and toured extensively. Prior to forming the Lawrence Arms, the three band members were active in other Chicago-area bands. Brendan Kelly had played in the ska punk band Slapstick. Chris McCaughan had played in Tricky Dick before joining Kelly in The Broadways. McCaughan and Kelly also shared an apartment together on Chicago's north side. Neil Hennessy, meanwhile, had played in a band called Baxter. Both Slapstick and The Broadways released albums on Asian"
"inclusion individually and as a group in the HBO series ""Treme"". After a hiatus starting in 2011, the original line-up reunited in March 2014, with Johnny Ray Allen on bass. Allen died on August 8, 2014 at age 56. The band has continued to tour with Tim Cook on bass. The Subdudes The Subdudes (stylized as The subdudes) are an American roots rock group from New Orleans. Their music blends folk, swamp pop, New Orleans rhythm and blues, Louisiana blues, country, cajun/zydeco, funk, soul and gospel with harmonic vocals. Their sound is notable for the band's substitution of a tambourine"
"to fit the new line up the band began playing live once again. The band continued touring, playing with bands such as The Coshercot Honeys, Fighting the Shakes and The Veils. The band was now moving ahead with increased vigour and purpose. However, once again unforeseen events hampered the band once more. In a tragic accident Alex Mustard, the band's bass player suffered a horrific injury to his left hand that meant he might be unable to play bass ever again. The band stopped all shows once again to give Mustard a chance to rehabilitate. After a short hiatus, Mustard"
"broken his wrist playing football. In 2005 and 2006 he played in the live band for Gorillaz, playing two 5 night residencies at the Manchester Opera House in Manchester and the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, respectively. He's currently working with Muse and contributes backing vocals, keyboards and synthesizers when the band plays live, though he is not considered a full member. His proper debut with Muse came at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Dundee, Scotland. He was the tour director and bassist for Lily Allen on the first half of her 2009 world tour. He has also been"
"battle with cancer"". Allen mainly used OCDP (Orange County Drums and Percussion) throughout his career. He also used Paiste Cymbals. His setup was one snare, one rack tom, and a floor tom. His cymbal setup was two crash cymbals, a pair of hi-hats, and a ride cymbal. Allen Shellenberger Allen Shellenberger (September 15, 1969 – August 13, 2009) was an American drummer who played in the band Lit. Shellenberger founded Lit in 1988 in Fullerton, California alongside brothers A. Jay and Jeremy Popoff and bassist Kevin Baldes. He remained a member of the band until his death in 2009. Lit"
"with the band on drums and will fill in for Sandy Ficca on occasion. During the summer of 2011, David Muse, who just survived a bout with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, returned to play shows with Firefall once again, alternating with Chris Ball before rejoining permanently. Apart from Firefall, in 2012 original and then current Firefall members Jock Bartley and David Muse reunited with Rick Roberts and studio percussionist Joe Lala in the supergroup Boulder County Conspiracy. Other members of this band included Bobby Caldwell (Captain Beyond, Johnny Winter, Rick Derringer), Max Combs, Allen Carman and Billy Sandlin. They toured throughout 2012"
"in ""The New Yorker"", ""BLAB!"", ""Zero Zero"", ""Weirdo"", ""Pictopia"", and ""Duplex Planet Illustrated"". In addition to ""Idiotland"", Allen and Leib collaborated on a number of stories in the fund-raising anthology comic ""Legal Action Comics"" volume 1, published in 2001. Allen's non-comics work includes Plexiglas paintings based on pinball machine art, most of which he produced in the late 1970s; and a more recent series of ""fake"" marine art paintings, which he sells on his website. Along with Leib, Allen was a founding member of the Grammy-nominated band Rubber Rodeo from 1978–1982. Allen has played bass for many other bands as"
"On 28 April, Matt Nicholls broke his arm while playing football with members of Bring Me the Horizon, Parkway Drive, and the Architects; instead of cancelling the tour, Architects' drummer Dan Searle filled in, causing the length of Bring Me the Horizon's set list to be halved. The tour was extended with a North American leg from 13 August to 4 October, retaining Parkway Drive and the Architects, while adding Deez Nuts as an opening band. A year later, in December 2011, Bring Me the Horizon accompanied Machine Head's European arena tour as the main support band alongside DevilDriver and"
"October and November 1979. Allen celebrated his 16th birthday with a performance at the Hammersmith Odeon. On 14 March 1980, the band released their first album, ""On Through the Night"". Since their first album, Allen continues to record and tour with the band. On the afternoon of 31 December 1984, Allen was involved in a car accident with his then-girlfriend Miriam Barendsen on the A57 road in the countryside a few miles west of Sheffield. While trying to pass another car at a high speed, he lost control of his Corvette C4, which hit a dry stone wall and entered"
"snare drum, and a tom drum. He is ranked No. 7 on the UK website Gigwise in ""The Greatest Drummers of All Time"" list. On 16 October 2009, Yamaha announced the addition of Rick Allen to their artist roster. Allen plays Yamaha Oak Custom drums with a matching subkick. Along with Yamaha Oak Custom drums, Allen also uses Remo drumheads (usually he has coated Ambassadors on his drums and a clear Powerstroke 3 on his bass drum), Zildjian cymbals (mostly K customs and A customs), and a LP rock cowbell. Rick Allen had used Vater drumsticks and Zildjian drumsticks from"
"and then collapsed and died of a heart attack. ""It was very sudden, very shocking"", said guitarist Barry Bailey. ""He was a great drummer, the best drummer this band ever had."" ARS then continued on upon recruiting new drummer Jim Keeling. In early 1999, while Hammond was still recovering in the hospital, Andy Anderson returned after eleven years to front the band until Hammond was well enough to return (Anderson would return again in May 2000 to sub another show for Ronnie). But in 2001, Anderson was back once again after Ronnie decided to take a gig with another group,"
"in there and design a program around them. It developed into drum council, which is an ongoing program that we provided for the camp. We had tremendous success. The One Hand Drum Company was created by Allen to assist in providing awareness and funding for his Raven Drum Foundation. Currently, the primary focus of the One Hand Drum Company is promoting StikRick, a drawing by Rick of a one-armed drummer that he sometimes uses with his autograph. The StikRick site sells T-shirts, hats, and other items with the StikRick drawing along with a ""Life Is Great!! Be A Rockstar!!"" slogan."
"as Slade refused to continue without their drummer although Lea's brother, Frank, covered Powell's position at the Isle of Man Festival to avoid disappointing fans. Powell, who'd suffered breaks to both ankles and five ribs, successfully recovered after surgery and was able to rejoin the band ten weeks later in New York, where they recorded ""Merry Xmas Everybody"" – in the middle of a heatwave. Powell still suffers with acute short-term memory loss and sensory problems as a result of the accident. Whilst Powell was recovering, and in an attempt to keep up momentum, the band released a compilation album"
"Ken Skinner (keyboards) and Robert ""Jakes"" Jacobs on rhythm guitar. Chris left the Red Angel Panic in 1971, by which time the line-up featured Rob Tillett (lead guitar/vocals), Chris on bass and vocals, Leon ""Moses"" Carmen on keyboards and Peter McCormack on drums. The band reformed in early 1971 with Ron Anderson on bass guitar, Lee Cass on drums, Moses on keyboards and Rob Tillett on lead guitar and vocals. Later that year Peter McCormack rejoined the band, replacing Lee Cass. The band broke up in 1972, when Rob Tillett paralysed three fingers on his left hand after a motor"
"Rick Allen (organist) Rick Allen is a blues, rock and R&B Hammond organist and pianist. In the 1960s, he played organ trio gigs in L.A..and did session work with singers and guitarists such as Jerry McGee and Rick Vito. In the 1970s, he toured with Don Preston, and recorded with Delaney & Bonnie. Allen moved to New Orleans in the 1980s, where he played and recorded with a number of blues and cajun performers including Ernie K-Doe, King Floyd, Freddy Fender, Marcia Ball. Allen was born near Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, and he began playing drums at age five,"
"one off performance at the Wicker Park Bucktown Arts and Music Festival in Chicago, playing a full set on the Center Stage. On October 13, 2009, Mitch Allan announced on his Myspace page that SR-71 will be playing another one-off reunion show at the Bourbon Street in hometown Baltimore, Maryland on November 25, 2009. Alternative rock act Cinder Road supported them on this date. During the band's show, drummer John Allen stepped to the front and traded duties with frontman Mitch Allan, to sing ""Best of the Worst"", a song he co-wrote with Mitch Allan for his other band Charm"
"Phil Allen Phil Allen was a drummer in several Liverpool new wave bands. He is the brother of Enrico Cadillac Jr. (real name Steve Allen), the frontman of Deaf School. In May 1977, at the petition of Deaf School's Clive Langer, he founded the punk and post-punk band, Big In Japan, being the drummer; he played in some songs which later appeared on the ""From Y to Z and Never Again"" EP, but became less inspired and left in December 1977. In January 1978, he was replaced by Budgie, later of Siouxsie And The Banshees. Later, Allen joined The Egyptians,"
"dates. In April 2011, Bring Me the Horizon embarked on a European tour, starting in the United Kingdom. They toured with Parkway Drive and Architects as main support bands, with The Devil Wears Prada as the opening support for the UK and dubstep group Tek-One. The tour, however, was not without its hindrances. On 28 April, Nicholls broke his arm whilst playing football with members of Bring Me the Horizon, Parkway Drive and Architects. Instead of cancelling the tour, Architects' drummer Dan Searle filled in as drummer, but this meant that Bring Me the Horizon's setlist was halved in length."
"live-sounding album. The US audience reception for ""Slang"" and its subsequent tour was a major dropoff from a decade earlier, but ""Q Magazine"" nonetheless listed ""Slang"" as one of their Top Ten Albums of 1996. This album was the first recorded performance of Rick Allen playing a semi-acoustic drum kit since his accident, and not his electronic set as was first used with ""Hysteria"". VH1 revived the band's fortunes in the US in 1998 by featuring them on one of the first episodes of ""Behind the Music"". Reruns of the episode yielded some of the series' highest ratings and brought"
"by the Four Tops. Allen's influences included Max Roach, Buddy Rich, and fellow Funk Brother Benny Benjamin. He played a studio set made up of Ludwig, Slingerland, Rogers and Gretsch components and likely Zildjian cymbals. Although he appeared in ""Standing in the Shadows of Motown"", the 2002 documentary about the Funk Brothers, Allen died of cancer in June 2002 in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 69, a little over four months before the completed film was released. Allen was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the Funk"
"permanently paralyzed from the chest down. In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited for a full-scale tour with five major members of the pre-crash band: crash survivors Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash. Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, took over as the new lead singer and primary songwriter. Due to founding member Allen Collins' paralysis from his 1986 car accident, he was only able to participate as the musical director, choosing Randall Hall, his former bandmate in the Allen Collins Band, as his"
"Allen Shellenberger Allen Shellenberger (September 15, 1969 – August 13, 2009) was an American drummer who played in the band Lit. Shellenberger founded Lit in 1988 in Fullerton, California alongside brothers A. Jay and Jeremy Popoff and bassist Kevin Baldes. He remained a member of the band until his death in 2009. Lit announced on May 5, 2008 that Shellenberger was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Doctors at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute confirmed that it was a malignant glioma, which had favorably responded to radiation and chemotherapy treatment but was inoperable. His treatments were documented in a piece"
"the instrument. After the crash, Wilkeson and the other survivors bowed out of the spotlight for the remainder of the 1970s as they attempted to put their lives back together. Wilkeson did manage to lay down bass parts for a release by Jacksonville band Alias, whose debut album, ""Contraband,"" was released in 1979 on Mercury. The 1980s appeared to bring great promise for most of the surviving band members, as a new group, the Rossington-Collins Band, formed, consisting of Wilkeson, guitarists Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, and keyboardist Billy Powell. The Rossington-Collins Band got off to a good start, as"
"with the Kaiser Chiefs. They played at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2009 and 2011. In June 2009, the band announced that bass player Laura Hyde had left, and would be replaced on tour by bassist Ryan McGinness. In August 2009 near the beginning of the band's gig in Sydney, singer John Baillie Junior jumped off stage and broke his arm causing the band to cancel the remainder of their Australian tour, as well as appearances at Pukkelpop and Belladrum festivals. Baillie snapped both bones that run from the wrist to the elbow, shearing a large chunk of bone"
"Guitarist and founding member of Swing Kids and Unbroken Eric Allen took his own life in 1998. The remaining members had the opportunity to play two benefit shows in Southern California raising thousands of dollars for charity. The shows or ""funerals"", as the band members looked at it, displayed that the bands spirit will live on, and showcased the evolution of the remaining members musicianship. The documentation of these shows was a self-titled 7"" single featuring an updated version of ""Situation on Mars"" as well as a new track titled, ""Fake Teeth"". Swing Kids played two reunion shows, both with"
"Michael Valentine (bass), Scott Von Heldt (guitar), Ralph Patlan (guitar), and Brian Ruedy(keyboards, programming) to join his up-and-coming musical ensemble. In 2011, following Pete Hawley's departure from Back from Ashes, the band recruited Johnson to play for the ensemble. In February 2012, Back from Ashes hired Bobby Anderson to play percussion on a long-term basis for the band. In 2012, it was revealed that Johnson had formed the band Love and Death with Welch and Valentine. In 2014, Joe Rickard, the drummer for the Christian metal band Red, left the group, to join Manafest as a touring drummer so Johnson"
"from 1977 to 1981. Their current touring group features original members Donny York and Jocko Marcellino, and long-time member Screamin' Scott Simon. Simon joined the band just after its appearance at the Woodstock Festival (1969). Everyone else from the original band and TV show has since departed. Current band members include bassist Tim Butler, guitarist Randy Hill, drummer Ty Cox, and sax player Michael Brown. The group began singing as part of the long-standing Columbia University a cappella group the Kingsmen, but changed their name due to the Pacific Northwest group of the same name that became famous for recording"