Gavin Harrison. Gavin Harrison (born 28 May 1963) is an English drummer and percussionist.
He is best known for playing with the British progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree and King Crimson. His influences come from his father's jazz collection and from drummers such as Steve Gadd and Jeff Porcaro. Career[edit] In 2002 he joined Porcupine Tree. In 2008, Gavin joined King Crimson as part of a dual-drummer lineup with Pat Mastelotto. On August 23, 2011 he was a featured performer on the 'Late Show with David Letterman' as part of their second "Drum Solo Week", along with such players as Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, and Dennis Chambers. Awards[edit] He won the Modern Drummer magazine readers' poll for "best progressive drummer of the year" consecutively from 2007–2010.
Publications[edit] Harrison has authored two instructional drum books entitled Rhythmic Illusions and Rhythmic Perspectives. Equipment[edit] Current kit (2013)[edit] Home studio setup[edit] Tony Levin. Anthony Frederick "Tony" Levin (born June 6, 1946, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American rock musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, Chapman Stick and upright bass.
He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin helped to popularize the Chapman Stick and the NS upright bass. He also created "funk fingers", modified drumsticks attached to fingers used to hit the bass strings (which sounds similar to slap style bass). Levin is also one of the first[2] bloggers, as he began sharing his tour experiences in a diary fashion as early as in 1996, one year before the terms "weblog" and "blog" were coined. Biography[edit] Early life and education[edit] Levin was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in the suburb of Brookline. After high school, he attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York and played in the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. 1970s-1980s[edit] 1990s-2000s[edit] Levin playing a chapman stick during a performance in Misinto Italy, 15 July 2010. Adrian Belew. Adrian Belew (born Robert Steven Belew, December 23, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.
He is perhaps best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock group King Crimson (which he fronted from 1981 to 2009) and for his unusual, impressionistic approach to guitar playing which frequently involves sounds more akin to animals and machines than to standard instrumental tones. Biography[edit] Early life and musical development[edit] Born to a middle-class family, and initially known to friends and classmates as "Steve Belew", Adrian Belew played drums in his teen years (playing with the Ludlow High School marching band) and later with the high-school covers band The Denems.
Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, he took up guitar when he was bedridden for several months with mononucleosis.[3] Not inclined to formal music study, Belew was nonetheless a quick developer and rapidly became a high-school guitar hero. Robert Fripp. Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.
As a guitarist for the progressive rock band King Crimson, Fripp has been the only member to have played in all of King Crimson's line-ups from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. He has also worked extensively as a studio musician, notably with singer David Bowie on the albums "Heroes" and Scary Monsters, and contributed sounds to the Windows Vista operating system. His complete discography lists more than seven hundred releases over four decades.[5] He is ranked 62nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" after having been ranked by David Fricke 42nd on its 2003 list.[6][7] Tied with Andrés Segovia, he also is ranked 47th on Gibson.com's "Top 50 guitarists of all time".[8] His compositions often feature unusual time signatures, which have been influenced by classical and folk traditions.